Polya Lesova is evening news editor at The Wall Street Journal in New York. In that role, she ensures the Journal’s news offering is best-in-class and oversees the curation of digital platforms. She ...

Some readers may solve the problem procedurally: line up the two numbers, add the ones column, carry the one, and add the tens to get 43. Others might instead notice a creative shortcut: 29 + 14 is ...

Executives are increasingly enamored with the promise of an AI-driven transformation and have invested accordingly. Most large-scale companies have initiated hundreds of pilots and provided widespread ...

When solving a puzzle, the answer could lie in your dreams. In a study of lucid dreamers, playing soundtracks linked with unsolved puzzles helped the sleepers solve the problems the next day, ...

In a dark room, in the middle of the night, a woman lies dreaming. Suddenly, her eyes beneath their lids dart crisply left-right, left-right. The eye signal means she knows she’s dreaming. Lucid ...

How did Carter cases, intended as a backstop for the public school system in a limited number of instances, come to cost New York City over a billion dollars? My new Manhattan Institute brief shows ...

The findings, published in Personality and Individual Differences, show that people with strong ADHD symptoms, such as inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity that can impair some aspects of daily ...

Imagine Jo: Everyone in Jo's life recognizes her as an outstanding problem solver. She's the type of person who seems capable of almost anything. Jo excels at intuitive problem-solving. Over her life, ...

Allan Sun is a software and systems engineer at Apple, where he works on real-time system software and infrastructure for Apple’s in-house 5G modem silicon platforms (C1X), one of the company’s most ...

Sen. Kim Hammer (R-Benton), who is running for Secretary of State in 2026, was the lead sponsor of several bills in 2025 designed to limit or end direct democracy in Arkansas. In 2025, Arkansas ...

In “Straight Talk with Rick and Jal,” Harvard University’s Jal Mehta and I examine the reforms and enthusiasms that permeate education. In a field full of buzzwords, our goal is simple: Tell the truth ...