Jonathan Shaw in Harvard Magazine: How does the brain process language—using sounds to form words, and assigning…

Now we are on the ferry we flew to drive to,It’s enormous engines vibrating Every…

From The Week Newsletter: Selected editorial cartoons –this week by Joel Pett; Monte Wolverton; Bob…

“I’ve learned that being kind is more important than being right. I’ve learned that when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.”

If you are an artist, that means that you are denuding yourself more and more, that by the time you die you are stark naked and your bowels turned inside out. — Henry Miller

Alexander C. Lees at The Conversation: (T)he biennial Living Planet report from the World Wildlife…

Tom Zoellner in the Los Angeles Review of Books: The stories that a country tells…

The answer is neither small-scale, targeted interventions nor broad generalizations about growth. Instead, we should focus on firms.

Surendriya Rao: “I am an American poet of Indian origin. I heard ghazals sung from a young age, but never thought of them as poetry.”

Not all of Alghorra’s photos depict despair, plentiful as it is. In one photograph, a Palestinian teacher is seen drawing on a whiteboard in a makeshift classroom built under a tent.

“The economists’ “groundbreaking research” has given us a “much deeper understanding of the root causes of why countries fail or succeed.”

This rhyme is thought to relate to Irish beggars who arrived in England during the British genocide which resulted in millions of deaths.