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Sophisticated comedic turns from Leslie Odom, Jr., and Kara Young guide Kenny Leon’s Broadway revival of Ossie Davis’s 1961 play.

Scientists have unearthed logs in Africa that are nearly a half-million years old, the remnants of large wooden structures crafted by our early ancestors.

If you were expecting Congress to reassert its war-making authorities, think again.

There’s more to Helen Keller than her inspiring story of overcoming serious physical disabilities.

Brian Merchant’s new book, “Blood in the Machine,” argues that Luddism stood not against technology per se but for the rights of workers in the face of automation.

While Republicans threaten to bring the government to a halt, Democrats are caving in to the austerity measures they demand.

Big Tech is on the spot

The world banned chemical weapons in 1997. Here’s why it took so long for the US to eliminate its arsenal.

If hordes of cops are going to keep polluting New York’s increasingly flood-prone subways, the least they could do is grab a bucket and be helpful.

Reshaping the Kansas Technical Institute’s campus into an actual prison provides a perspective on what it means when, over time, whole populations are functionally criminalized.