Les Payne’s new biography of Malcolm X already has made waves, revealing a clandestine meeting between the incendiary civil rights activist and an armada of Ku Klux Klan leaders in the 1950s to explore a shared interest: the formation of a separate, all-Black state. 

Science has always been interwoven in our daily lives but perhaps never as noticeably – and for some, uncomfortably – as it is amid our struggles now to respond to the COVID-19, pandemic, climate change, and other global challenges. 

New York University’s Michael Strevens pulls back the curtain on the process of science. 

The model for fairly selecting judges across much of our country is known as the Missouri Plan, born some 80 years ago in response to the political manipulations of notorious Kansas City boss Tom Pendergast. 

From Huckleberry Finn to Harry Potter. From The Great Gatsby to The Giving Tree. For all our talk of the First Amendment and freedom of speech, America has a long and troubling history of banning books … in schools, in libraries, even across entire cities.