Many in the current cohort look to Emily Oster, an economist who urges mothers and fathers to use the best data to make ...

Primarily the chief science officer on the starship Enterprise, Spock is a fixture on the bridge and the best friend of ...

There are some outspoken celebrities, such as Jane Fonda. But Dr. Spock holds a unique position as both a once-trusted member of the establishment, and a radical capable of rattling the government.

The trial of Dr. Benjamin I. Spock and four other men--including a Harvard graduate student--on charges of counseling others to refuse the draft is scheduled to begin today in Boston's federal court.

As Meyer himself stated in Star Trek: The Magazine, he was, in fact, sitting with Harve Bennett when he suggested opening the ...

Author Emily Oster, right, at a book reading in Washington last year. (Leigh Vogel / Getty Images for Emily Oster) ...