Five hundred years after posting his ninety-five theses and launching the Reformation, Martin Luther remains a big man of history. Literally.

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Orca Quarry in British Columbia is one of a handful of mines feeding the nearly insatiable desire for sand and gravel in major West Coast cities.

Yum. Scientists, policymakers, and journalists find that our food is polluted with pesticides, overdosed with antibiotics, and yet teeming with pathogens.

Recent diplomatic tension between America and North Korea seems bewildering, and not just because of the boasts and paranoia of Trump and Kim Jong Un.

It's been a terrible year for fires in California and elsewhere around the world. Because then it always is now in the age of megafires.

Ezra Jack Keats's 1962 book The Snowy Day featured an African-American protagonist, a first for a full-color children’s book.

The term 'child star' is almost synonymous with dysfunction. We're familiar with TV and movie kids, but what about those made famous by social media?

Despite the high rates of religious adherence in the United States, fewer Americans are reading the Bible than at any point in history.

Mount Rushmore has been controversial since its inception. Its designer, Gutzon Borglum, wanted to communicate a particular vision of American history.