“What is your pain on a level of one to 10?” the nurse in the emergency room asked. The question momentarily stumped me. My mother, who descended into hypochondria long before real illness took her ...

On Thursday, Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour sent shock waves through the media world when the style icon announced that she was stepping away from the role after more than three decades running ...

At its peak, the Old Babylonian Empire rose to be one of the biggest civilizations the world had seen–but what was daily life like? Along with the pioneering legal code of Hammurabi, a wealth of ...