We need to approach our online conversations with an awareness of the different levels of risk and vulnerability each of us bring.

Pioneering journalist Gwen Ifill has died. Her career in a white and male-dominated industry inspired many to the profession.

Melvil Dewey, of the Dewey Decimal system, thought we should have spelling reform.

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How do presidential transitions really work? Political science scholarship on White House staffers provides some insight.

For now-ubiquitous consumer credit cards, bad early results had a hidden benefit.

For decades physicists have pursued a long-shot approach to clean power—nuclear fusion.

Can purchasing a doll be a revolutionary act? The franchise makes an effort to connect its characters with the realities of American history.

Influential singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen has died at age 82. Re-surfacing some Cohen-related materials on JSTOR.

Did you drink the Kool-Aid? The phrase has become such a part of the vocabulary that for many its origins have been obscured.