It would cost about $250 million to get an additional 650,000 low-income Americans to breastfeed as much as experts recommend, but it would save families and the health-care system $1.5 billion, a ...

Researchers Christian Davenport and Allan C. Stam say the accepted story of the mass killings of 1994 is incomplete, and the full truth — inconvenient as it may be to the Rwandan government — needs to ...

Thomas Day just wanted to find a wife. He had tried all the usual ways—Day had been educated at Oxford and met plenty of eligible young women, sisters of his peers, including one to whom he became ...

The day after Earth Day at the New York Botanical Garden was one of those spring stunners when half the city had come out to get their nature fix after a long, gray winter. Couples lolled on the lawns ...

Meet three young women who want to teach our repressed society how to explore its relationship with death. At first, it might sound gross or a little bit scary. Ridiculous, even. You wonder if it’s ...

The agency’s reported investigation of rapper Meek Mill’s latest prison sentence seems to be an exception to a rule. The story of Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill’s latest prison sentence isn’t over yet.

Women who kill their newborns usually claim to have been in denial about their pregnancies. Can you carry a child to term without realizing it? And if you do, how responsible are you for your actions?

An interview with Charles C. Mann about the roots of modern environmentalism and the fate of the human species. Here’s the thing about successful species: Eventually, they all wipe themselves out.

How a fashion statement at the turn of the 19th century led to the creation of the first Audubon societies. At the turn of the 19th century in the U.S. and Europe, it became wildly popular—and that’s ...

For the first time in my life, I am not a racial minority when I move to Johns Creek, Georgia. People from myriad cultures, ethnicities, religions, and nationalities deem this patch of earth home.

Nearly 45 years after they put the female superhero on the cover of Ms. magazine’s first issue, the players behind the cover consider its impact, and the new movie. None of this hand-wringing is new: ...

They won’t be lost to fire, like much of the Universal Music catalog, but who will save the mixtapes? In 2008, a 24-hour inferno ripped through a Universal Studios backlot, incinerating a massive ...