Daniel Luzer

A new study shows that boys can shun and ostracize with the best of them. We’ll have to drop our “mean girls” bias to better understand how they do it.

Unfortunately for Megyn Kelly, considering he died 2,000 years ago, that classification doesn't make much sense.

It's all about the Benjamins.

Students who get a lot of exercise perform better academically. But competitive varsity sports limit the availability of rigorous activity in schools.

A history lesson for former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and other conservatives worried about "a secular clown posse" set on destroying Judeo-Christian traditions.

Access to alcohol isn't anything new, but access to members of the opposite sex is.

There's such a thing as going too far, but team mascots are supposed to be offensive.

Many American writers fear that standardized testing could be destroying our children. They might be right.

A new study, which attempts to correct for problems with current survey methodology (even when anonymous we don't always answer honestly), finds that 19 percent of Americans don't consider themselves heterosexual.

And why it doesn't really matter if he was 500 years too late.

Get used to government shutdowns. Serious budget problems are a common feature of large states in decline.

While their intentions aren't necessarily pure, the numbers suggest they're actually on to something.

The history of citizen ownership of firearms isn’t just about protection against tyranny; it’s also about forcing subjects to defend tyranny.

Not really, no. So why, then, do we bother to listen to his speeches?

The fancy clothes and charitable works aren't incidental: The dictator’s spouse is an important part of maintaining power.

Thanks to a recent paper in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, we finally have some answers for why Americans work so hard.

Research reveals that animals are gaining weight, too.

How national affiliation became such an important part of our personal identity.

Russian legislators have said they will enforce new anti-gay laws during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, but the ancient athletic games started out as little more than a gigantic festival of homoerotic excess.

How did we come to decide that relationships between professors and students are almost always wrong?

His place in the polls continues to drop, but is there hope yet for Anthony Weiner? Research indicates that many politicians tainted by scandal get elected anyway.

The Catholic Church changes its teachings all the time.

At least one scholar's research indicates drug use was fairly common in ancient Greece and Rome.

Do neighborhood watch programs work? After 40 years, we still don't really know.

Did our ancestors really have healthier diets? The evidence isn't very convincing.

Research shows that married women who don't take their husbands' names are more successful than those who do because others judge them to be more intelligent, competent, and ambitious.

New research by political scientists finds that, since 1991, most of the world’s coups have resulted in competitive elections.

Research clearly shows that even “nice" people can be racist.

Superman's story is one of America's most retold because, as this country's most famous and beloved character, he's a mirror through which we see ourselves.

Americans didn't invent baseball. Why do we work so hard to pretend we did?

Worried about the government accepting gay marriages? It only pretty recently started accepting straight ones.

The NSA's eavesdropping and data-gathering may be unsettling, but it's only recently that we've begun to think of our telephone conversations as personal and private.

The surprising history—from food for the poor, servants, and prisoners to a soldier's staple to everybody's idea of a delicacy—of "the cockroach of the ocean." Or, one of the most remarkable rebrandings in product history.

Forget the argument about a calendar built around an agrarian economy. It was urbanization that created summer as we know it—and now we can't imagine doing anything else.

On the surprising origins of an official federal holiday that now marks the opening of summer in the United States.

Why do almost all political killers have young admirers?

The American fascination with royal families has been around for centuries, almost since we stopped having one of our own.

Enthusiasm for the clothes of The Great Gatsby don’t indicate blindness toward the tragedy of the story. The tragedy is part of the appeal.