"Folklore," Zora Neale Hurston wrote in an essay, "is the boiled-down juice of human living." It was this deep interest in the lives and stories of the black community that led Hurston, who grew up...

"If sanity and insanity exist, how shall we know them?" So begins a landmark 1973 study by Stanford psychology professor David Rosenhan, who persuaded eight healthy people to feign hallucinations and commit themselves to mental...

Over two months since the repeal of Kashmir's special status, citizens are bracing themselves for what's next

"When we are away from home, in new and strange places, we get to know ourselves better," Abdallah, the son of a rich merchant, thinks as he gazes out an airplane window. It's a sentiment...

After two summers volunteering in a refugee center in Athens as thousands of families flooded into Greece, Christy Lefteri found herself wondering what it means to see, and be seen. From the question sprang her...

On the sunny, cloudless morning when Imaad Tariq was born in Kashmir, most of his family had no idea. "Nobody knows that my wife delivered a baby boy," says Tariq Ahmad Sheikh, at the hospital...