Because law schools are cash cows for universities, shortening the time it takes to get a degree is a subject institutions have always avoided.

Former U.S. attorney and founder of Above the Law, David Lat offers tips on where lawyers should look for work in the economic downturn.

While the legal industry may be headed for grim days, the method of payment won’t disappear any time soon, says David Lat, founder of Above the Law.

David Lat discusses his mission of bringing sunlight to a world covered in darkness.

Twenty years into the Internet Age, the world of online speech is still anarchic. How much responsibility should websites take in the matter?

David Lat would gladly split his time between the Harvard Law Review and US Weekly. Here’s how he made those dueling interests into a career.

A conversation with the founder of Above the Law.

What are the five jazz albums everyone should own? It’s an impossible question, Gary Giddins says (then mentions six or seven).

Is jazz dead? Hardly, says critic Gary Giddins, who believes we’re seeing “some kind of renaissance.”

Jazz is an African-American music, yet its major white figures initially received the top gigs, the big money—and the scorn of black musicians. Untangling the genre’s racial politics is part […]

Can criticism be as ageless as art, or is it inseparable from its time and place? Gary Giddins takes a tough look at his own profession.

Yes, jazz should be studied in the academies, says critic Gary Giddins. But if its raw emotion gets “turned into homework assignments,” its whole meaning gets lost.

“Jazz” author Gary Giddins explains why critics should err on the side of gushing, not bashing.

Once listeners learn to recognize stale pop music formulas, they often become enamored with the spontaneity of jazz.

A conversation with the award-winning jazz critic and author of “Jazz.”

“Jazz” author Gary Giddins looks back at his younger self: an avid reader of Dr. Johnson and would-be critic of English literature.

Understanding the “caps” on the ends of chromosomes may soon translate to understanding cancer, lung diseases, and even normal aging.

With President Obama having been awarded the Nobel Prize, biologist Carol Greider, a fellow 2009 laureate who waited 25 years to see her work honored, discusses whether he deserved to […]

Nobel-winning biologist Carol Greider explains why scientists must be critics, not cheerleaders, of their own hypotheses.

Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Carol Greider says the age of genetics is not around the corner—it has already arrived. The question now is what limits to set on change.

What is telomerase? How was it identified? And why did the discovery take 25 years to win the Nobel? Biologist Carol Greider shares the inside story.

Do good scientists aim for fixed goals or follow their curiosity? And do they ever worry that they’re barking up the wrong tree?

Carol Greider, 2009 Nobel Prize winner in Medicine, recounts how it felt to get the big call from Stockholm and predicts its future impact on her work.

The Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist weighs in on gender discrimination in science and advises young women entering the profession.

A conversation with the Johns Hopkins University molecular biologist and co-winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

A gnawing habit of sense-criticism and anxiety over authenticity keep the Nobel Prize winner up at night.

Even the best among us fail and fail a lot. So why not drop the empty notion of heroism and use an accurate method for judging humans?

The Nobel laureate explains why talk of Turkey joining the EU quickly faded away.

While writers have a moral obligation to address all of humanity in their works, Orhan Pamuk is skeptical of the aesthetics of avoiding categorizations entirely.

As the Nobel laureate and Istanbul native argues, the so-called clash between Eastern and Western cultures in the region is a malignant myth—in reality, civilizations can come together easily.