AUG 2017

In the words of technology reporters.

In her new book, martial artist Wendy Rouse digs into the history of women fighting back.

Intellectual Ventures has put some of the profits from licensing patents into developing breakthrough health-care technologies that nobody else has been able to pursue.

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

In her new book, Vanessa Panfil offers a detailed and nuanced portrayal of homosexual life among gangs in Ohio.

We spoke to Jenny Hval about what she recommends reading, watching, and listening to.

How the Christian Right is co-opting the women's rights movement to fight contraceptives in Africa.

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

As political instability roils the Central African Republic, neighbors are accusing neighbors of practicing the dark arts.

"There is a TV crew here from Texas called Infowars. They are the good ones—they are for Trump. Be nice to them."

Men are allowed to be mavericks, but women are expected to toe the party line.

How one high school—mine—explains why we keep making the same mistakes in our education policy.

More than 130 Berliners died trying to cross the "death strip," the no-man’s-land between two massive concrete walls that divided their city for nearly 30 years.

Borders are arbitrary, but they can feel transcendent.

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

It sounds counterintuitive—and would be a hard sell—but making the way the two major political parties nominate candidates less traditionally democratic could also make it more open to compromise and negotiation.

San Martín Del Rey Aurelio, Spain: In 2012, miners launched a rocket at Spain's civil guard, which, according to press reports, was attempting to halt protests against the government's decision to reduce coal subsidies.

Eva Kor survived Auschwitz and Josef Mengele. Today, she's healing by telling her story.

"Only a small percent actually ventured out to slit our collective throats with their votes."

A new book by a German historian looks at the conflicting history of segregation in commercial air travel.

Some doctors' manuals from the 19th century do list Lactuca virosa as a pain reliever, but there's little evidence that it works.

Tana Toraja, Indonesia: At a funeral in a remote corner of Indonesia, water buffalo are sacrificed in order to help carry the deceased to the afterlife.

Jaguars are crossing the border into the United States, causing a stir among scientists, mining interests, and those bent on building a wall.

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.