A profile of the anthropologist.

The behavior geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden is waging a two-front campaign: on her left are those who assume that genes are irrelevant, on her right those who insist that they’re everything.

More than a decade ago, a prominent academic was exposed for having faked her Cherokee ancestry. Why has her career continued to thrive?

What if people don’t just invent medical symptoms to get attention—what if they feign oppression, too?

He wants to save classics from whiteness. Can the field survive?

She fabricated harrowing personal backstories, peddled gross caricatures, and spoke from perspectives she had no right to claim. And nobody stopped her.

When a Qatari sheikh came to live in L.A., an entire economy sprouted to meet his wishes. “His highness doesn’t like to hear no,” one associate told a professor.

A troubled professor's obsession with "Goodfellas."

It began with a series of anonymous sexual-harassment complaints that the writer knew were false. But the truth was far stranger.

In just the past few years, one union has organized close to 10,000 Florida adjuncts, in what is one of the most remarkable and little-noticed large scale labor campaigns in the country.

Thea Hunter was a promising, brilliant scholar. And then she got trapped in academia’s permanent underclass.

How a professional football player became a top-flight mathematician.

Is this the world’s most bizarre scholarly meeting?

A writer prepares for the possibility of meeting a lost lover.

As a young social psychologist, she played by the rules and won big: an influential study, a viral TED talk, a prestigious job at Harvard. Then, suddenly, the rules changed.

A professor conducts a lifelong racial experiment.

The relationship between creative writing programs and modern fiction.

How did a tenure-track professor wind up selling his plasma? A story about debt.

A search for meaning through academics, cultural studies, and terrorism.

When Elizabeth Abel returned to the Bay Area home she had rented to a fellow professor on SabbaticalHomes.com, he refused to leave or pay the back rent he owed. She moved in across the street and enlisted her famous academic colleagues to help her get back the house she had raised her children in.

The night America elected Donald J. Trump president, 38-year-old Richard B. Spencer, who fancies himself the “Karl Marx of the alt-right” and envisions a “white homeland,” crowed, “we’re the establishment now.” If so, then the architect of the new establishment is Spencer’s former mentor, Paul Gottfried, a retired Jewish academic...

A former reality star's strength in the face of a Presidential candidate's comments.

Hallucinations and peculiar memories of a dead spouse.

A story of medical ailments, family dynamics, and conservation work.

A sociologist’s controversial first book and the debate over who gets to speak for whom.