Why our brains love the ocean: Science explains what draws humans to the sea

Why so many elderly Chinese are collecting trash

My fertility envy

My real-life "Footloose": I grew up in a town that banned secular music

Ann Coulter's real soccer nightmare: How the World Cup awakened our love of a collective

Metronome for the modern age

Right-wing obstruction could have been fought: An ineffective and gutless presidency's legacy is failure

The Senate flunks basic biology: Inside a disgraceful hearing

Reinventing the American highway: The promise (and pitfalls) of learning to love tolls

Thousands flee Gaza as Israel expands ground offensive

The future of warfare: Why we should all be very afraid

Kerry: MH17 crash evidence "points a clear finger at separatists"

America's shameful ebola ignorance: The troubling truth about our attitude toward the virus

Judge orders James Brown documents made public

Woody Allen: "Nothing keeps people away if they think they'll enjoy my films"

Stop calling soldiers "heroes": It stops us from seeing them as human — and dismisses their experience

Kerry caught on open mic: Gaza is "a hell of a pinpoint operation"

"Bring the battlefield to the border": How America's immigration wars were poisoned by the military-industrial complex

The truth about clichés: Why the stigma against them isn't entirely fair

GOP's highway robbery: How self-styled patriots choke future growth, ensure American decline