Culture

Alternative funeral options are changing how we honor our dead
A small, yet growing number of people are starting to choose funeral options outside traditional burial or cremation.
Science fiction books that predicted the future with terrifying accuracy
Science fiction writers have anticipated a variety of modern inventions, from cars to organ transplants. Some books barely seem like fiction.
The most undervalued problem-solving tool? Lateral thinking.
Lateral thinking is a way of approaching problems. It deliberately forgoes obvious approaches in favor of oblique or unexpected ones.
The shipping containers used for conversations
Why does officer Tommy Norman have a million Instagram followers?
Making America dinner again
How to negotiate the nonnegotiable
The barber building trust between cops and his community
Maybe we can all get along: 5 reasons to be hopeful
LGBT rights: The power of a single conversation
Where Muslims and Jews worship together
Americans are divided. These people are doing something about it.
Crossing the Divide trailer