Lia Thomas, a member of the University of Pennsylvania's women's swim team, has racked up an astounding amount of wins and records this season.

Just as we see encouraging signs that prohibitionists are starting to understand that drug prohibition is the primary cause of harm from nonmedical drug use–with new initiatives at home and abroad to decriminalize illicit drug use–policymakers in New Zealand are about to add a widely used drug to the prohibited list: tobacco.

It's confirmation bias all the way down when it comes to political divisiveness.

On November 22, Chileans went to the polls to pick a president. At least on this day, mice's and totalitarian communist governments' best set schemes were foiled.

Researchers have shown a dramatic reduction in bias about race in recent years. The long-term trend is that Americans are getting more tolerant. And there is little that white supremacist terrorists can do about it.

Semiconductors are tiny chips that have become essential to human civilisation. What are they, and why are governments all over the globe frantically attempting to develop local manufacturing capabilities?

Elinor Ostrom was the epitome of a kind and encouraging academic who was nevertheless quite serious about the issues at hand.

The pope has slammed an internal EU document released by the equality commissioner, Helena Dalli, in late October, in which the EU is compared to Nazi and Communist regimes. The advice's most contentious element was to 'avoid presuming that everyone is Christian.'

Oskar Schindler was the polar opposite of a hero.