Given the sheer volume of mass shootings in America, an unknown shooter with an unknown motive will sometimes make an escape.

Lindsey J. Smith is a science and environmental journalist based in San Francisco. Her work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, The Verge, and Pacific Standard, among other outlets.

In his newest book, Joe Sacco worries about the kind of future that political violence might create.

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By achieving big things after 40, Lindsey Vonn and Philip Rivers offer a lesson in false limits.

W arren Buffett has long been known and admired around the world for doing something that is, at its essence, mundane. He is ...

Seth A. Klarman is the CEO and portfolio manager of the Baupost Group, a value-oriented investment manager founded in 1982.

One of measles’ most deceptive traits is that most cases, especially in healthy people, are relatively mild. On the one hand, that means that many survive the disease without serious lingering effects ...

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Zane Lowe, the most important music interviewer working today, kicked his sneakers up onto his couch cushions and began to ...