For the past few weeks, President Donald Trump has seemed uncharacteristically passive. His own Republican Party bucked him ...

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Welcome to the 18th annual Space Telescope Advent Calendar, featuring remarkable images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope ...

A new book argues that societies built on centralized wealth and power contain the seeds of their own destruction.

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David Rubenstein was the quintessential symbol of wealth and influence in the capital. Then Donald Trump returned to the ...

The belief that his son’s death inspired Shakespeare to write Hamlet is itself inspired by an enduring, compelling, and ...