Storytelling plays a vital role in addressing sexual assault, but what of the safety and well-being of survivors—both those who speak out and those who don’t?

The prepping movement has a bad image spurred by right-wing extremists. But preppers are a largely misunderstood bunch.

Grief makes sense of loss and opens us to rebuilding all that is meaningful in life. Society would benefit if public grief were acknowledged more.

Anthropologists in Cyprus are quietly working to unite the intensely divided island country—by finding and identifying human remains.

The story we’ve all been told about the demise of Easter Island’s culture is flat-out wrong. Here’s why.

The news hints that we are getting closer to Armageddon—but some say we are more peaceful now than in the past. How do we make sense of this contradiction?

From fights over a parking space, to marauding bands of outlaws, to global conflicts, we seem to be a violent…

The evolution of uniquely human cognitive abilities gave us the means to wage war—as well as the capacity to avoid it.

International doctrines don’t always work as expected. In fact, some violence is stoked by the rules that are meant to suppress it.

The evolution of empathy may have conferred both the advantage of mercy and the tradeoffs of killing.