Professors Shore, Snyder and Stanley have studied and written extensively on authoritarianism. Ms. Trianni is a producer for ...

Music, for instance, can offer a real sense of peace, he added. So can visual art. Dr. Keltner recently tried a New York Times focus challenge, spending 10 minutes looking at van Gogh’s “Starry Night, ...

Back from the Brink,” Peter Moskos’ new book chronicling New York City’s remarkable 1990s crime drop, revives something ...

A new book by the New Yorker staff writer John Cassidy plumbs more than two centuries’ worth of grievances about our global ...