Ideas

Richard Nixon’s landslide victory over George McGovern signaled a political realignment whose consequences are still being felt 50 years later.

For his new autobiographical film, “Armageddon Time,” the director learned from his favorite painters and photographers.

The gift of an accordion set a self-described nerd on the road to offbeat musical fame.

Russia’s president could lose power in any number of ways. What will the end of his rule mean for his own country, Ukraine and the world?

“All I Want for Christmas” is everywhere. Very few songs and shows are anymore.

Just be thankful that your teeth aren’t drilled with a flint or numbed with cocaine

Children are more likely to thrive in the subject if they’re encouraged to experiment and explore rather than to “be” scientists.

The late Microsoft co-founder made it his mission to locate some of World War II’s most famous wrecks, using cutting-edge technology.

Mountaineer Hilaree Nelson was a role model for athletes and mothers around the world

A new exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts shows how modern artists have been inspired by traditional singing and drumming.

Spider webs are everywhere in ghoulish Halloween decorations, but they deserve to be celebrated as a model of natural engineering

For 30 years, his bestselling Goosebumps novels have offered ‘rollercoaster’ thrills for readers under 12.

In an excerpt from his new book, Jason Gay talks about being drawn, despite himself, into the obsession of his 9-year-old son.

A term for an undead spirit comes from several African languages by way of Haiti

It’s the World Series. Now you finally want to learn the players’ names?

Despite campaigns of conquest past and present, Russia has succeeded in portraying itself as a liberator resisting the designs of an aggressive West.

This year’s political chaos in the U.K. has more to do with the drawn-out battle over Brexit than with the country’s uncodified constitution.

Shinichi Suzuki developed a popular approach to learning the violin, but his goal as an educator was to cultivate “noble hearts.”

A new exhibition shows how the painter adapted his trademark style to war and exile.

The head of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence believes in the power of sharing survivors’ stories.