Like billions of people, I use caffeine. But there is a glaring double standard in the drugs we stigmatise or celebrate ...

Many think the answer is obvious: we ought to cut immoral people out of our lives. But that isn’t necessarily the best option ...

Moved by mystical visions and the French Revolution, William Blake crafted a radical blueprint for living with purpose ...

Ever feel like a word or person you just learned about has been showing up repeatedly? There’s a term for that ...

Defying the predetermined shapes of her world, a woman must carve out her own space in this stunning, surreal animation ...

How I learned to hear the voice of my ancestors and speak Lenape, a language silenced for generations Krista Nelson, as told to Dawn Fallik ...

It’s easy to understand why superhero stories or James Bond films are popular in Hollywood. In our age of diffuse, interconnected problems, it’s hard for audiences to resist the idea that an ...

In Double Portrait, the London-based artist Ian Bruce animates the love story of Geraldine Peacock and Bob Gannicott, who first met on the school bus in Bristol. To capture the gradual passage of time ...

Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein is the senior managing editor of SAPIENS magazine. Her writing has appeared in Al-Jazeera, CNN, The World and The Poetry Foundation, among others. She lives in Skokie, a ...

Why do our growing environmental and political crises, bearing existential risk for human beings, trigger irrational spending and consumption? I call it asteroid economics. We consume with abandon ...