"It was 2002 and everything was denim, denim, denim. I was like, 'I want pants, I want crazy, fun pants.'"

The four Gormans are all Penn alumni and all involved professionally in the mental-health field. In a new book, two of them—daughter Sara and father Jack—take a careful look at the psychological factors driving science denialism and how to counter them. Hint: more data isn’t the answer.[...]

In successfully defending the irascible Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase—aka “Old Bacon Face”—against impeachment, Joseph Hopkinson C1786 G1789 helped set a high bar for removal from office and establish the principle of judicial independence.[...]

How one family’s journey through the realm of rare disease led them to the newest frontier of precision genetic medicine.[...]