Mehran Gul’s “The New Geography of Innovation” started out as a study of whether U.S. technological dominance is waning. His research convinced him that he was asking the wrong question. While he ...

The 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence offers a chance for overdue conversations about what schools should teach when it comes to history, government, and social studies. Today, ...

Mey Rude is a journalist and cultural critic who has been covering queer news for a decade. The transgender, Latina lesbian lives in Los Angeles with her fiancée. The handsome actor is leaving little ...

Sundance film festival: two teenage girls find their friendship put to the test in a witty and charmingly odd British comedy If you know, you know that first best friendship is a world unto itself – ...

Taylor Gates is an Indiana native who earned her BFA in Creative Writing from the University of Evansville. She fell in love with entertainment by watching shows about chaotic families like Full House ...

Uncompromisingly sharp-tongued and led by sensational newcomers Marni Duggan and Galaxie Clear, “Extra Geography” finds much humor and tenderness in feminine angst and youthful cluelessness. Based on ...

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A student once told me, halfway through the term, “I thought this class would be about memorizing countries. But now I can’t stop seeing systems.” He said it during a discussion about climate ...

Just a few years ago, the new era of big data was in danger of drowning us. We could know everything, but it was hard to know anything. Now, none of us need to drown in our data; we can map it—and ...

Growing up in Bangladesh, Naznin Nahar Sultana enjoyed looking out over the lush green hills east of Chittagong, the nation’s second-largest city on the Bay of Bengal. But as she got older, the hills ...

Awhile back, I hired an amiable local kid to help me move some boxes, explaining that my husband was in Saudi Arabia. My teen helper’s brow puckered for a moment before he inquired, “Is that near ...

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