Inflation plays a role, of course, but there’s another major reason behind the spike in high vet costs: clinics going corporate. Many vet practices and hospitals that were previously independently ...

In spring 1863, The Atlantic published a feature on Sojourner Truth written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, which inspired activist ...

The United States is short on educators. According to estimates from Brown University, there are roughly 55,000 vacant K-12 ...

Elephants demonstrate complex behaviors that researchers have associated with empathy and mourning, pointing to the animals’ ...

Coyotes ( Canis latrans) and wolves ( Canis lupus) are two closely related species from the dog (Canidae) family. Though they ...

If you want to make your money really stretch this month, you might have to wait until Memorial Day weekend (but the discounts will be worth it).

Avid doers of The New York Times crossword now have the chance to be on the other side of the puzzle: Its editors are ...

In the latest episode of Misconceptions, host Justin Dodd is investigating some enduring myths about journalism.

Although the scene ultimately revolves around the unsolved question of which one of them is captain, much of the comedy ...

Whether it’s China calling The Full Monty “Six Naked Pigs” or Denmark translating Die Hard as “Mega Hard,” it’s not always easy to translate a movie’s title, or its intentions, into another language.

In the fall of 1861, former President Franklin Pierce headed to the Midwest, where he intended to visit with friends, family, ...

A huge number of classic nursery rhymes and children’s tales are attributed to a figure known as Mother Goose. She’s often ...