
On the man who excavated the details the city wished to forget.

Why does the Troy Davis case call for a hashtag and a prison strike? Here's why it was different this time.

Following a screening of "Waiting for Superman," Ben Goldhirsh and Davis Guggenheim discuss filmmaking, good schools and bad schools, and pragmatism.

In the comments on our recent list of the top emerging bike scenes in North America, a few readers wondered why Davis, California, a college town...

With any luck, the Raiders will keep the best parts of Davis’ legacy alive for many more years while burying the cruel and petty parts.

If you saw Blades of Glory last year, you may have chuckled when Will Ferrell used the word "mind-bottling," which he defined as "when your...

Happy Memorial Day to everyone out there. It's always sad that Memorial Day is just a day off, and not a day where we do any actual memorializing....
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To the men and women who have made-and continue to make-profound sacrifices for a collective good: we honor you.Cartoon by Cox and Forkum via...

We might be on our way out of Iraq but things are just starting to pick up in Afghanistan. With record-high number of veteran suicides and...

Memorial Day wasn't always about barbeques, road trips, and the beginning of summer. In this original GOOD video, we honor the solemn roots of...

A recent recruiting commercial for the Army says, "There is a type of strength that doesn't require words." Now, I'm in no position to question...

On PETA and the ethics of dog shows.
The philosopher Peter Singer is considered by many to be the intellectual father of the "animal rights...

So this hasn't exactly been the best week ever for Arne Duncan.
Yesterday, Ezra Klein, David Boaz and Matthew Ygleias all excerpted the same...

Maya Lin's fruitful career in landscape art began when she was just 21, when her design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial won a blind...

A look at how many have served, how many have died, and how much we've spent on every major American war.
American Revolution,...

Thanks to a new startup, post-relationship closet cleansing can be productive—and eco-friendly.

Michael Atkinson on the uncelebrated genius of Peter Watkins.

Peter Murray-Rust is a chemist, a reader in molecular informatics at the University of Cambridge, and a Senior Research Fellow of Churchill...

Peter Hadfield, a former New Scientist reporter, has a fantastic YouTube channel on climate change that provides a witty, scientifically informed...