If you grew up in an environment where deep conversations were rare, curiosity wasn’t encouraged, or questioning things got you in trouble, you might have missed out on key intellectual skills. Maybe ...

Last week, Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry announced that he does not believe greenhouse gas emissions are the primary cause of global warming, contradicting the views of the vast majority ...

Recently, visiting the rural village where I grew up on the Baltic Sea coast of Sweden, I was intrigued by how the pattern of my high school friends' conversations had changed. Over the decade and a ...

Columbia has said it should be a space for “moral and intellectual conversations” about the Israel-Hamas war, but as those conversations harden, the choice may affect its finances. By Sharon Otterman ...

When people think of disabilities, they usually picture something physical: a cane, a prosthetic, or a ramp outside a school. Intellectual disabilities, however, lack that kind of visibility. As a ...