Bright lights? Strange floating figures? The jury's still out on an afterlife, but at least some reported phenomena seem to have natural explanations.
There are all kinds of reasons for America's obesity problem, but the most likely culprits lie in uncomfortable areas.
Has intellectual life lost its "urgent core," as one critic suggests, or, as another says, are we merely seeing "the democratization of criticism"?
During a time that some called the Age of Conformity, one magazine lampooned even the most sacred topics.
Results of term limits on state legislators may be encouraging to supporters.
Public radio is trading music for news in pursuit of listeners (and ad revenues), but it was supposed to be immune from such pressures.
Turkey under Atatürk offered an appealing model for the Muslim world, in the view of U.S. officials, but its more recent independence on important internal issues may provide a more useful model.
China is undergoing an unexpected artistic renaissance, with wary support from the government.
One surprising obstacle to the entry of former communist-bloc countries to the EU: the role and power of organized labor.
America's youth are reading less...or at least not reading the right stuff.