Last December, the U.S. Department of Justice released its first batch of files on disgraced financier and convicted sex ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Talk may be cheap, and actions may speak louder than words. Nevertheless, rhetoric matters. It arouses passions, noble and base.

Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker comes out swinging in defense of Darwin with his latest book, The Blank Slate (in paperback this September from Penguin USA). This Harvard-based proponent of ...

A viral tweet by Steven Pinker highlights the deadly reality of a single punch, contrasting it with movie depictions. What do ...

Before boarding a flight to South Africa in 2013, Justine Sacco sent a sardonic joke to her 170 Twitter followers: “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding—I’m white!” By the time her ...

Steven Arthur Pinker is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and popular science author. He is Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, and is ...

Let’s talk about this thing between Bill Maher and Kevin Hart and how Maher stays being the kind of loud and wrong white liberal MLK warned us about.