Laird Hunt has written what is really three stories wrapped around each other: A famous lynching in Marion, the story of a song about it, “Strange Fruit,” and a new novel, which begins on that terrible day. More
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Politics and History
Many of us are living two lives – old-school analog and cutting-edge digital. Author David Sax says that’s okay. More
Anger can separate us into partisan camps, but it can also inspire people to work together to achieve amazing things. Michael Eric Dyson knows this firsthand.More
Brendan Steinhauser was watching Rick Santelli on Squawk Box, listening to the CNBC editor’s now-legendary rant following the 2009 bailout of the financial sector that ended with his call for a “Chicago Tea Party” outside of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Steinhauser thought it sounded like a good idea.More
Psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett runs a lab where she studies emotions and says that if you pay attention, everyday anger can be a source of wisdom.More
Writer Pankaj Mishra traces the roots of contemporary political rage back to a surprising source: the 18th century Enlightenment. More
Could we, as a nation, be addicted to anger? That’s what science fiction writer and astrophysicist David Brin thinks. In fact, he wrote an open letter to addiction researchers and psychologists, asking them to investigate America’s epidemic of self-righteous indignation.More
Facing the costs to being a victim of online harassment, where’s the law when you need it?More
A Teen Vogue editor finds herself arguing with Tucker Carlson. And then it gets worse.More
Psychologist Clark McCauley has studied terrorist groups and lone actor extremists for years. He says in many cases, it's not ideology that inspires terrorists — it's social bonds.More
Psychedelic drugs show remarkable promise for treating addiction and end-of-life anxiety.More
Comedian Esteban Touma reflects on love and marriage, and reveals how squirrels explain the mysteries of evolution.More
Author Laurie Halse Anderson discusses slavery, the Revolutionary War and the long history of discrepancy between America’s democratic ideals and its practices.More