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Brown's 60th anniversary offered news organizations fresh opportunities to examine race, inequality and education in America.

The Merriam-Webster dictionary has added more than 150 terms this year, including many from technology. This shows that dictionary editors are becoming more aggressive about reflecting common speech.

In the Soviet Union's communal kitchens, many families jockeyed for one stove. Apartments were crowded, food was scarce and government informants were everywhere. Still, some found joy and connection.

Also: Freegan, crowdfunding are added to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary; Joshua Ferris talks to The Paris Review about the difficulty of naming characters.

Summer is the best season for star gazing and, in that spirit, commentator Adam Frank offers up a video of the Milky Way passing over the desert.

United States special forces are shaping a new battlefield. But what to call this effort and how long will it last?

In "Panic," high school seniors in a struggling New York town compete for a cash prize in a high-stakes game of increasingly risky challenges.

Strokes come in two varieties, and drugs that treat one type can be deadly for the other. An experimental device could help get the right treatment to patients while they're still in ambulances.

A new HBO drama, God Save Texas, is set to take the chaos and color of the Texas political scene to the small screen.

Daniel James Brown tells the story of the University of Washington rowing team at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.