Alex Beam

The late MIT professor Claude Shannon was known as ‘the Father of the Information Age.’

Why hasn’t the United States been banned from international sports?

New biographies of Stephen Sondheim and Jan Morris reveal two towering talents with sharp edges.

Inside the church, a clash over whether the Iran attack satisfies the church’s "just war" criteria.

Salem’s cat museum joins a global collection of places that celebrate everything from failed products to lost love.

The royals are coming. Hide the tea — and the topics.

It seems as if “Doonesbury” has been with us forever. First syndicated in 1970, the year that Garry Trudeau graduated from Yale, “Doonesbury” has covered every war from Vietnam to the current "short-term excursion."

The slogans are cheesy, the ticket prices obscene, and the hype endless. But no sport delivers drama quite like soccer.

Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement sounded like a windfall. For many authors, it’s turning out to be something closer to a tip.

Books and TV series have sent me chasing fictional worlds and reveal how little I know about the real ones.