An effort to identify five performing orcas as slaves failed in part, argues one scholar, because there’s no legal precedent establishing them as persons.

New international measures to end fish poaching on the high seas would enforce laws where the poacher calls, not where their ships are registered.

New research finds listeners judge symphonic music differently when they’re told the conductor is a woman.

While it’s not a bad idea to pay attention to the various costs of your medical care, the president of the Center for Advancing Health argues that haggling over costs is not a long-term solution to spiraling expenses.

Like other great figures, new writings about Mohandas Gandhi tell us something about the subject but perhaps more about our times.

South Africa’s painful journey from white minority domination to democracy, and the roles played by the rest of the world, is chronicled in a five-part documentary airing on PBS.

Recent scholarship and popular journalism both suggest an unappealing future for American boys: You’re screwed.

Various ways of assigning numbers to events, people, and actions is an ancient parlor game, but let’s not take it beyond that.

The wage gap between the sexes in America has been closing much faster than anyone realized, but that’s tempered by learning it’s been much wider than measurements had shown.

Sports fans control more of what happens on the court or on the field than they realize. Now if they could just applaud good decisions over flashy bad ones.

Researchers propose pulling patients out of anesthesia with “a shot of adrenaline to the brain.”

Shunned in the past as trumping mitigation, the issue of climate adaptation is now receiving serious attention.