How American Sign Language came out of a small town to speak volumes and change lives.

Decades ago, John Allen Paulos described the consequences of “innumeracy.” We failed that test. Now what?

Divided by politics, by Jim Crow, brothers Barry and Tommy Moser rarely spoke, until. . .

In a nation where half the citizens don’t vote, who cares about civics? Kelley Brown and her students, that’s who.

In a savage and sizzling summer, Mississippi’s Freedom Schools were beacons of hope.

Martin Gardner was interested in everything and made everything interesting.

The commons was doomed, economists said. Elinor Ostrom disagreed and won a Nobel.

Think the Midwest is just corn country? The annual Great American Think-off will make you think again.

When Will Durant asked the wise about “the meaning of life,” he got the usual answers. Then he asked a prisoner.

Others saw TV as mindless, but George Gerbner saw it as mean. And he had the data to prove it.