Support for the death penalty is falling worldwide. In the Western world, the U.S. is only one of two countries that retain it. What is the Christian view?

Mathematics and art are generally viewed as very different. But a trip through history – from an Islamic palace to Pollock's paintings – proves the parallels between the two can be uncanny.

A host of spaces that were once immune to commercial intrusion – from parks to our friendships – are now being infiltrated by advertisers. Are we being enslaved by a 'merciless master'?

President Trump has ordered a review of national monuments protected by his predecessors, and may try to abolish or shrink some. But four legal experts say that only Congress has that authority.

The industry has wanted access to offshore oil for decades, but the Arctic remains challenging. Consumers, meanwhile, seem conflicted on expanded offshore drilling.

Big cash infusions can give nonprofit journalism a much-needed boost. But the ailing news industry needs more consistent funding.

People tell each other stories every day about the things they've seen and done. For many children with autism, this kind of personal narrative doesn't come easily. Here's how parents can help.

Enron stands as one of the most infamous scandals in business history. With a growing charter school sector and lax regulation, the same kind of corruption and fraud is rearing its ugly head.

Any field that collects and analyzes data relies on statistical techniques to make sense of it all. Modern, more accurate methods should supplant the old ways... but in many cases, they haven't yet.

For many of the nation's poor, food and shelter are more important than health care. Questions of insurance coverage loom broadly, but another question lingers: how to treat the poor we do not see.

An executive order signed in 1917 created what's been called 'the nation's first ministry of information.' The media are still feeling its impact.

Franklin D. Roosevelt is famous for really getting a lot done fast. Will history remember Trump so kindly?

A scholar of rhetoric makes note of one way Trump’s language has changed since he became president.

A flurry of policy reversals in recent weeks suggests Trump has changed his tune from his populist campaign promises. Has he?

The stack of executive orders, proclamations and memoranda Trump has signed makes other presidents' stacks look puny.

Afrikaans is very much a black language. The apartheid government's ploy to construct it as a "white language", with a "white history", denied the commonality of the language across race and class.

Scientists want to exploit a natural process of carbon storage.

When Jean-Marie Le Pen made it to the second round in 2002, France was in a very different mood.

A survey shows that candidates who exploited populism in one way or the other during the first round of the French presidential election captured about half of the vote.

Electrical brain stimulation is used to treat a range of conditions, from depression to epilepsy. But how confident can we be that it works?