Why dogs and people rule the world

Evolution has favored the friendliest canine and human species over more aggressive competition.

Facebook bums us out, but we'll pay for it anyway

Those who deactivated their accounts for a month were less anxious and depressed.

Some people just might be more open to changing their minds than we thought.

Bob Dylan has surpassed Walt Whitman as the defining American artist, celebrating the capacity for self-invention as the highest form of freedom.

Algorithms are outperforming human beings in a variety of unexpected contexts.

Despite progress in some areas of discrimination in the United States, the male-female wage gap persists, and it's big.