RALEIGH — Think tank is a funny term for a serious enterprise. For more than a century — the first one was the Brookings Institution, founded in 1916 — think tanks have played important roles in ...

In the early nineteen-thirties, three young gay men made the scene in bohemian Los Angeles, absorbing influences and shaping one another’s tastes. They staged art shows and concerts; they lectured ...

Those who serve on Clark County’s justice courts handle everything from first appearances for murder suspects to traffic law violations, tasked with delivering a fair first round of justice no matter ...

Vibe coding — the fast-growing trend of using generative AI to spin up code from plain-language prompts — is quick, creative, and great for instant prototypes. But many argue that it's not cut out for ...

The amount of noise The Row’s annual sample sale generated last weekend was perhaps antithetical to the brand’s ultimate quiet luxury status. But what else could be expected? The brand’s legions of ...

It’s a popular example of the “Mandela effect,” or a collective false memory. And while some people may laugh and move on, others spend years searching for an explanation. There is a shirt currently ...

In Sarah Yuska’s sixth-grade science class at Monocacy Middle School in Frederick, Maryland, students are just finishing up learning about body systems—respiratory, circulatory, skeletal, and so on.

NASA’s interim administrator, Sean Duffy, was fired up on Wednesday when he joined a teleconference to talk about new scientific findings that concerned the potential for life to have once existed on ...

In 1969, a now-iconic commercial first popped the question, “How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?” This deceptively simple line in a 30-second script managed ...

I always thought Texas sales tax was straightforward and predictable, hovering around 8% or less, depending on where you are. Groceries usually dodge the tax man (or woman). And once a year before ...