Is genetically engineered food dangerous? Many people seem to think it is. In the past five years, companies have submitted more than 27,000 products to the Non-GMO Project, which certifies goods that ...

U.S. soldiers patrol a checkpoint southeast of Baghdad on Sept. 6, 2007. Photo by Carlos Barria/Reuters U.S. Army Specialist Stephanie Charboneau sat at the center of a complex trucking network in ...

It’s so nice to be needed even after you’re dead. That’s what I was thinking during the rehearsal dinner for Pocahontas and John Rolfe at the Williamsburg Lodge, off Route 60 in Virginia. Actors play ...

Excerpted from Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep?: A Neuroscientific View of the Zombie Brain by Timothy Verstynen and Bradley Voytek. Out now from Princeton University Press. In the movie Dawn of the ...

David Strathairn in Sneakers. The film's score was composed by James Horner. Universal Pictures. The first time I saw Sneakers in 1992, I was struck by its score. As a 12-year-old classical pianist ...

Wikimedia Commons/White House Historical Association It’s a familiar chapter in our history, part of the triumphant narrative of westward expansion: In 1803, the United States bought a massive chunk ...

Jesse Jackson at an event honoring Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, D.C., in 1983. Leonard Freed/Magnum Photos Jesse Jackson first ran for president during the national ...

In his 1919 manual for screenwriters, Ten Million Photoplay Plots, Wycliff Aber Hill provided this taxonomy of possible types of dramatic "situations," first running them down in outline form, then ...

Photo illustration by Slate. Logos courtesy WTF, The Read, Welcome to Night Vale, and Radio Diaries. Sarah Koenig photo courtesy This American Life. Paul F. Tompkins photo by Barry ...

Photo by Maddy Crowell I thought a bottle of red wine would be an appropriate gift to bring to utopia. It was June in Pondicherry, a sleepy beach town off the Bay of Bengal characterized by its ...

The play’s the thing, wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King. — Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 2 1. Foul Deeds Will Rise Is it possible to kill 1 million people and then forget about it? Or if it has ...

This file photo shows an unnamed detainee inGuantánamo Bay in 2009 Photo by John Moore/Getty Images PART ONE: ENDLESS INTERROGATIONS Mohamedou Ould Slahi voluntarily turned himself in for questioning ...