Many of the things we believe about ourselves and our experiences turn out to be false. Sometimes this is due to innocent memory failures or to the lack of needed information. Suppose that Charles ...

As we approach a post-presidency impeachment trial, my mind returns to what we witnessed during the past few weeks, during the past four years, raising the question of how we have become so divided as ...

Despite some recent stumbles in his campaign, the most dramatic development of the 2016 presidential race has been the meteoric ascent of Donald Trump to the status of front-runner for the Republican ...

Attending an academically rigorous institution like USC wields an underlying pressure to always remain well-versed. We’re constantly encompassed by alumni success stories and the impressive milestones ...

Ceres is the largest body in the asteroid belt. For billions of years, it has been out there, biding its time, orbiting 250 million miles from the sun. Now, for the first time, a robot emissary from ...

NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 01: A stop sign is seen next to a US flag on 1 October 2013 in New York City. After United States federal government shutdown eight hundred thousand US government employees ...

To get treats, apes eagerly pointed them out to humans who didn't know where they were, a seemingly simple experiment that demonstrated for the first time that apes will communicate unknown ...

“I am conscious that I am not wise either much or little,” Socrates says in Plato’s “Apology.” Between knowledge and ignorance lies an epistemological no man’s land, a murk of half-knowing that we ...

As our nation continues its march to 2024, a year that will feature not only a presidential election but also potentially four criminal trials of the Republican front-runner, I’ve been thinking about ...