The automation crisis of the 1960s created a surge of alarm over technology’s job-killing effects. There is a lot we can learn from it.

Millions of young people will never attend four-year colleges. America must do more to equip them to secure good jobs and live fulfilling lives.

The great American job machine is sputtering, but it has not lost any of its underlying power.

Snatched from a marketplace in Sudan and sold into slavery at the age of six, William Mawwin became one of millions of people in the world enduring some form of involuntary servitude. This is his extraordinary story.

Poor, landlocked, and bedeviled by its neighbors, Tajikistan is staking its future on the one resource it has in abundance.

Cut spending! But tax me more.

Just because you can run a political campaign doesn’t mean you can run a federal agency.

The United States is rattling China by sidling up to its mainland neighbors.

Threats gather while scholars fiddle with formulas and theories.

Foreign-policy elites really are smarter than the rest of us.

Why do home sellers still use real-estate brokers?

Which college-educated women say they’re happiest?

Abandoned buildings may yet be redeemed.

Being fat is a risk factor—not a disease caused by the food industry.

Make way for new hymnals.

Philosophers cast a notable dissenter into the outer darkness.

From Fleming with love.

Skepticism is snuffing out wonder.

The “magic number of greatness” debunked.

Facebook Likes may reveal more about yourself than you intend.

Come autocrats or invaders, the Russian capital endures.

Add a meth epidemic to North Korea’s long list of ills.

The Chinese government is tolerating violent protests over medical malpractice—for now.