Time has always seemed like the one thing physics could count on. Matter changes, stars die, particles flicker in and out, ...

Elections keep handing power to elites. Anand Gopal and Ben Burgis debate whether choosing officials by lottery, as ancient Athens did, would be an improvement on representative democracy.

Decades ago, Paul Erdős used randomness to illuminate the vast and weird world of networks. Now mathematicians are making his ...

In sum, the student transformed a general interest in children in tragedy to an examination of Euripides’ depictions of children murdered by their parents. They then narrowed their focus to three ...

The town of Harmony, Mississippi, which owes its origins to a small number of formerly enslaved Black people who bought land from former slaveholders after the Civil War, is nestled in Leake County, a ...