Lindsey Vonn and Philip Rivers show what can happen when athletes keep competing into their 40s.

Given the sheer volume of mass shootings in America, an unknown shooter with an unknown motive will sometimes make an escape.

Yesterday, a few GOP dissenters lent their signatures to a Democrat-led effort to force a vote, but they were outflanked by ...

For more than 50 years, America’s official position on marijuana has been seen as nonsensical. By classifying pot as a ...

Rescheduling the drug does little more than offer a tax cut to an industry that extracts enormous profit from addiction.

Donald Trump has now installed descriptive plaques under all the portraits that line his “Presidential Walk of Fame” in the White House. If you wonder whether they are petty, but also deeply strange ...

Climate scientists know NCAR as one of the largest weather-and-climate-research institutions in the world; Russell Vought, ...

Lindsey J. Smith is a science and environmental journalist based in San Francisco. Her work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, The Verge, and Pacific Standard, among other outlets.

In his newest book, Joe Sacco worries about the kind of future that political violence might create.

1. Go deep or go home. I try to ensure that my social relationships—those that are voluntary and involve discretionary time— ...

The 18th day of the annual Space Telescope Advent Calendar shows a dying star that is casting off its outer layers, creating ...

W arren Buffett has long been known and admired around the world for doing something that is, at its essence, mundane. He is ...