Jake Youngman of Clarendon Hills is going full-steam ahead on a documentary about the Institute in Basic Life Principles and how some of the organization’s followers alleged they were controlled, ...

Jen Taylor-O’Connor opens up about her research on animal communication and how it helped her heal from trauma Alexandra Schonfeld is a staff editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

The Earth was formed roughly 4.5 billion years ago. The first signs of life on our planet emerged soon after (in terms of the Earth's history). However, the conditions back then were very different ...

Scientists report that they have built a living "minimal cell" with a genome stripped down to its barest essentials – and a computer model of the cell that mirrors its behavior. By refining and ...

“The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.” Frederic Bastiat, 1848 One of the most basic principles of life is this: For someone to receive ...

A new documentary series about the Duggar family has thrust the ultra-conservative Christian “19 Kids and Counting” brood back into the spotlight, along with their many controversies and evolutions.

For years, young people have complained that their education has not led to a financially or emotionally successful career. I think the problem is a fundamental misunderstanding in the information ...

Even small gestures of empathy convey a willingness to listen that leads to some softening of our defensiveness and the ...