Executive compensation reflects neither productivity nor demand for skills in a particular sector. Yet some CEOs are still receiving 881 percent raises.

Susan B. Anthony discusses how women's rights have evolved in a 1902 North American Review piece, "Woman's Half-Century of Evolution." 

The lines between psychological research and mysticism were blurry in the early days of LSD.

Extra Credit: Our pick of stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

As the Republican and Democratic party conventions approach, many wonder which way the "political amateur" delegates will vote.

Conservationists need to do a better job involving women, according to a recent Nature Conservancy report.

What is the point of the party platforms unveiled at political conventions? 

Surveying the purported objectives of 28 international terrorist groups and determining whether these groups achieved their aims.

Revisiting the iconic work of Barbara Kruger (“Your Body is a Battleground”) that has just as much resonance today as it did a quarter century ago.

Guinea worm, scourge of the tropics, may be nearing its end.