Anderson Cooper, one of the most recognizable figures in television, is leaving “60 Minutes” after two decades as a correspondent...

CROAKER, Va. — George Washington’s chin is crumbling. His cheeks are streaked with sooty grime. His blackened nose is peeling,...

One Republican candidate to succeed Sen. Mitch McConnell introduced himself with an ad that shows a cardboard cutout of the...

Frederick Wiseman, a dean of documentary filmmaking whose immersive chronicles of communities and institutions — including a psychiatric hospital, high...

Mark White is chair of the National Assessment Governing Board, which sets policy for the Nation’s Report Card, and a...

Scott Solomon is a biologist and professor at Rice University and the author of “Becoming Martian: How Living in Space...

Former president Barack Obama this weekend appeared to drop an otherworldly bombshell: extraterrestrials exist. “They’re real, but I haven’t seen...

The U.S. Census Bureau recently published the latest domestic migration data, and a clear pattern emerges: States with the least...

Nicholas Eberstadt’s Feb. 10 Tuesday Opinion essay, “How the New Misery befell America,” was distressing for several reasons, including the...

As Iran heads into a second round of nuclear talks with the United States in Geneva on Tuesday, under the...

Many countries’ governments have entire sports ministries and spend large sums of money to make their Olympians competitive. America takes...

Mark Haddon, the best-selling author of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” was an anxious and depressed...

Robert Duvall, an Oscar-winning actor who disappeared into an astonishing range of roles — lawmen and outlaws, Southern-fried alcoholics and...

My cat shreds the furniture with her claws and has ruined an expensive couch. I’m thinking of relinquishing her to...

Jim Stergios is executive director of Pioneer Institute. Christopher R. Anderson is president of the Massachusetts High Technology Council. They...