You’re reading Fault Lines, Jay Caspian Kang’s weekly column on politics and the media. If you never have to explain yourself, you can’t really ever be wrong. In recent decades, few things have been ...

We often talk about science as if it were a purely logical enterprise. Yet, the way we ask questions—and even the kind of questions we think matter—is shaped by something far older than the scientific ...

With social media at play, there is a strong level of pressure now more than ever to fit certain beauty standards and body types. Luckily, there are women who are also on social media who own their ...

Imagine this: you’re in a meeting, tasked with explaining a critical concept to your team. The stakes are high, and all eyes are on you. You start talking, but halfway through, you notice blank stares ...

IRS Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley, whose whistleblower testimony was pivotal to House Republicans’ corruption investigation into Hunter Biden, was named the agency’s next acting commissioner.

President Donald Trump is set to name Gary Shapley, the former IRS criminal investigator who alleged that the Justice Department slow-walked the investigation of Hunter Biden, as acting commissioner ...

Guinness World Records have captured the imagination of people all over the world for decades, highlighting some of the most incredible accomplishments in different areas of life. Whether it’s the ...

Since its founding, the United States has used the Electoral College to elect the nation's president. A candidate needs 270 electoral votes to win the White House. Five presidents in the history of ...

Chances are, you know someone with a killer ghost story. You might even believe you've encountered a ghost yourself. However, considering there's no scientific evidence that ghosts exist, why do some ...

If you’ve ever hung around scientists, you’ve most likely at some point heard one of them say “the best explanation is the simplest one.” But is it? From the behavior of ants to the occurrence of ...

The year is 1950. Physicist Enrico Fermi is eating lunch with a few colleagues outside Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. His shirt ripples in a hot desert wind. He looks up at the sky and ...