New advances in neuroscience are explaining why people just do it, exactly as they're told to, when that commercial comes on.

Retired Harvard professor warns that Trump is untreatable — and could create a police state if he returns to power

I have very little interest in sex -- and neither do millions of other Americans. So where are our support groups?

"Besieged" unfolds on the surface as a duet between two dislocated souls, but director Bernardo Bertolucci can't resist repeating his Freudian refrain.

It’s critical that people see themselves mirrored in popular culture

Stephen Hawking had enormous influence on his physics students and future physicists

Winfrey would be an instantly credible 2020 candidate. But the closer Democrats look, the less they'll like her

"This sure sounds like a mob hit was being planned on a public servant," former federal prosecutor Mimi Rocah says

The director of the minimalist, suburban "Thumbsucker" explains why he hates "American Beauty" and "Garden State." Plus: A polysexual French farce, and a master filmmaker's sweeping history of Greece.

"Deep State thugs" want "a tin-pot dictatorship," Trump tells his followers. Experts help decode the insanity

Public university professors enjoy great protections when it comes to free speech

The president deserves credit for his actions in this civil rights area, regardless of his motives

Will national Republican opposition to birth control access hurt Senate chances in Massachusetts and Connecticut?

A breakaway Mormon sect is accused of abandoning as many as 1,000 teenage boys to free up the group's females for polygamous marriages.

Ted Cruz wishes America had 100 more senators like Jesse Helms. And more