
Sixteen votes and the meaning of two-thirds
The constitutional dispute is ultimately about whether a fixed Senate denominator can cause a two-thirds requirement to operate as a substantially hig...

The constitutional dispute is ultimately about whether a fixed Senate denominator can cause a two-thirds requirement to operate as a substantially hig...

After 21 completed trial days, our outlook on the impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte has moved clearly on the merits but only slightly on the ...

For more than a century, the submarine cables carrying the world’s communications largely followed the same paths as ships. The first transoceanic tel...

Emily Wilson begins her celebrated translation of Homer’s Odyssey with an imperative that has become almost as famous as the poem itself: “Tell me abo...

(Last of two parts) The size of fonts also matters. Researchers Mareike Bayer, Werner Sommer, and Annekathrin Schacht measured cortical responses to w...

(First of two parts) The oldest known engravings consist of zigzag patterns and parallel lines, carved into freshwater mussel shells at Trinil on the ...

As democracies around the world face mounting challenges and pressures, discussions about autocracy often focus on personalities and ideologies or ten...

Story, a spoken or written account of connected events, is one of the main ways we communicate with other people. Whether it’s reading a picture book ...

Last of three parts NYU Global TIES for Children studied some of the Ahlan Simsim programs. One of the programs called “Reach Up and Learn” targeted c...