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"The White House is transforming a public forum into an echo chamber," says an attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute.

At Dartmouth College recently, avant-garde classical composer Molly Herron unveiled a new piece played entirely on homemade instruments.

In 1925, the Scopes Trial sparked national debates about creationism and secularism, and put Dayton, Tenn., on the map. Now another debate is happening in Dayton about whether it's appropriate to memorialize the secular side with a statue.

Henry David Thoreau, author of Walden and Civil Disobedience, was born 200 years ago in 1817. Biographer Kevin Dann says the philosopher's ideas about individual sovereignty remain relevant today.

Rachel Khong's first novel is a heartwarming account of family devotion and dementia — which sounds sickly, but her offbeat sensibility and flair for wordplay keep the story from becoming saccharine.

Some businesses are keeping costs down for workers by removing deductibles for supplies needed to manage diabetes and other chronic conditions.

Long before it was a quirky weekend destination, Bisbee was a mining town. And one century ago, it was the site of a large-scale kidnapping organized by the mining companies of the time.

The Spring Lake Arcade has been entertaining kids with pinball machines, toy-rifle ranges and more for 86 years.

Diane Dweller’s “Mom, Mania, and Me: Surviving and Changing a Volatile Relationship” is a powerful memoir. Most of us realize life is hard for those who…

The forces aligned with Iraq's government allegedly used crude, imprecise weapons that caused an unnecessary level of civilian casualties in the fight against ISIS, the U.K.-based rights group says.