Are there a group of trick or treat sadists poisoning the candy they distribute on Halloween?

Prizes and awards are forms of cultural capital in prestige-making projects.

Read an excerpt from "War's Womanly Face," a book by the winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize Svetlana Alexievich about female Russian soldiers in World War II.

Shoplifting was defined as kleptomania and understood as a psychological condition, but only a some members of society..

We look at the role the federal government and private donors play in funding charter school networks.

Now that water has been discovered on Mars, the next step is to ensure we don't contaminate the planet with Earthly microbes and bacteria.

A look at how climate change and human influences are changing the dynamics of fire, and the landscape, in the American west.

We examine the portrayal of the British suffragettes in the iconic film, Mary Poppins.

Thomas Gore was a senator from Oklahoma. His isolationism philosophy may have been his greatest legacy to his grandson, Gore Vidal.

The story of Licoricia of Winchester illustrates just how much wealth and influence a Jewish woman could accumulate.