What makes us buy hybrid cars? Going beyond the environmental argument.

Yes, there was once such a thing as a liberal Republican. We take a look at the rise and fall of John Lindsay, former Mayor of New York.

In Genesis 38, Tamar, disguised as a prostitute, tricks her father-in-law into having sex with her. I don’t recall this making the Sunday school curriculum.

Is there an alternative to the punitive treatment of criminals? We look at the history of correctional education reforms within the American prison system.

The fight for nuclear non-proliferation by state and non-state actors alike.

New Horizons, the NASA probe deployed to visit Pluto, has begun a new mission: visit the Kuiper belt, a region beyond the orbit of Neptune.

Light beer was originally marketed for its reduced calorie count. But heavy drinking men weren't into that.

Did posters help to raise spirits in Ferguson? Learn about the transformative political posters of Damon Davis and Robbie Conal.

Why the race of perpetrators in mass shootings is only a factor when the shooters are not white.

We take a look at how sex was viewed by early economists, from Sir William Petty to Adam Smith to Jeremy Bentham.