Jan/Feb 2015

Despite the media floodlight and intense scrutiny by governments around the world, the organization is still poorly understood.

Want to feel more confident and engaged in life? Take your mother’s advice: Eat more fruits and vegetables.

And it's called hostile attribution bias.

If Westerners can overcome their disgust of crickets—or any bug—as food, the environmental benefits could be significant.

A new study finds equal rights for women may also boost the competitive prospects of men.

For 150 years, the American education system has been: A) teaching kids what they don't know or B) dividing kids and teachers into meaningless categories. Answer: B.

Donald Kagin holds the only doctorate degree in the study of the so-called hobby of kings.

We met at 18. We wed at 24. At 27, I checked my wife into a psych ward—for the first time. How mental illness re-shapes a marriage.

People who light up on a daily basis "make poor decisions and experience worse outcomes with personal finances," according to a new study.

Do men forgo food for sex? So says one newspaper.

West Baltimore's unlikely source of fruit.

In every issue, we fix our gaze on an everyday photograph and chase down facts about details in the frame.

If the problem isn’t straightforward racism or benighted drug laws, what is it?

Three new books explain why inequality isn't sending us to the barricades.

A decade ago, people started panicking about the collapse of the honeybee population and the crash of our food supply. But today there are more honeybees than there were then. We have engineered our way to a frenzied and precarious new normal.

Trying to understand my father's get-rich-quick schemes.

The latest entry in a series of interviews about subculture in America.

How to run for your life and make new friends at the same time.

How an Oxford don is helping the tech giant understand the nature of modern identity—and stay out of court.

This list includes studies cited in our pages that received funding from a source other than the researchers’ home institutions. Only principal or corresponding authors are listed.

Los Angeles gave America the modern street gang. Groups like the Crips and MS-13 have spread from coast to coast, and even abroad. But on Southern California's streets they have been vanishing. Has L.A. figured out how to stop the epidemic it set loose on the world?

The end of gangs, the women who fight for men's rights, five ways to better understand ISIS, and more in our January/February 2015 print issue.