Unless you’re for first class citizenship for women, you’re “in support of the subordination of women,” says the attorney.

“I’m doing battle with some of the best and most highly paid attorneys in town, and often they’ll play dirty. It will be ugly. It will be vicious behind the […]

“In many cases there is no justice; there’s just minimizing the injustice,” says the lawyer. Doing so to the tune of many millions of dollars can have an “educational impact,” […]

Bringing a legal case against someone who is famous and powerful can be a “David and Goliath type of situation,” says the lawyer. But she’s “in the business of letting […]

The attorney says that there’s no hard-and-fast rule about when and how to use the media to help a client in court. “Sometimes it’s like an educational moment or opportunity […]

Women have made progress under the law—but not enough progress. And family law is rife with problems.

Milton Berle helped Allred become the all-male club’s first female member. Soon afterwards, she walked into the steam room with a tape measure, singing Peggy Lee’s “Is that all there […]

A conversation with the feminist attorney.

The economies of reuse and exchange will become a more permanent feature of our consumer environment.

We have not come out of the recession enough to stop spending money says the Foreign Affairs editor.

Britain’s role in foreign affairs has been in decline for a long time, and that will continue unless the country joins with other European countries in a very sustained way.

If we pull off our plan to “train and transfer” and win over some Taliban recruits by giving them a share of the government, the outcome will be a “very […]

The country is a “formidable opponent,” but the United States will remain the world’s leading superpower for the foreseeable future.

The American public’s interest in the rest of the world waxes and wanes depending on how close a crisis is to home.

The Asian nation—with its big military, nuclear weapons, and ongoing conflict with India—has been a “dangerous state” for the U.S. for some time. We’re only now starting to realize how […]

A conversation with the editor of Foreign Affairs Magazine.

It’s possible that there is a tiny, curled-up dimension in every point surrounding us, each too small for us to perceive or comprehend.

Molecular clouds that communicate with one another may continue to have a type of intelligence in the distant future, but “these bodies that we enjoy are not going to make […]

If one imagined and described the most logically elegant way to construct a universe, the result wouldn’t resemble ours.

Inside the Milky Way and every other galaxy there is a giant black hole at the center. Even in early times there were these types of holes, each weighing a […]

“It is really a high density situation that we call the big bang, but there is really no explosion,” says Freese. “There is no ‘bang.’ There is no singular point.”

A conversation with the University of Michigan theoretical astrophysicist.

In order for Europe to pull ahead, it must overcome challenges of confidence and a graying demographic.

Government information should be made much more freely available.

How can we keep from destroying information that might be relevant later?

The unfortunate side effect of information technology: it doesn’t forget, even when our society does.

A conversation with the Director of the Information Innovation Policy Research Center at the National University of Singapore

It can be tough, especially with young kids, because people understand atheism so poorly.

Magic goes to eleborate lengths to make something look one way that’s really another. Penn and Teller thought it would be funny to do a magic trick that accomplished reality.

This trick, which they debuted on Saturday Night Live in 1986, put an unexpected twist on Houdini’s classic water tank escape.