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Dads are taking parenting much more seriously. But according to a study of sitcoms, the stereotype of the foolish father remains stubbornly in place.
Generic names can take on a linguistic life of their own, becoming powerful forms of social commentary.
Prosecutors say they’ve closed Sweden’s most famous cold case. But many Swedes still have doubts. The crime and botched investigation have been a ‘national trauma’ for this normally peaceful place.
For decades, there’s been a concerted effort by law enforcement to ensure their perspectives – and not those of people being policed – dominate prime-time television.
In some parts of the US, a silver lining of COVID-19 may be a return to childhood friendships based in neighborhoods.
A team of researchers developed an app to study whether the pandemic would cause our internal clocks to go haywire.
In a system that treats people as objects to be counted, chained, searched and assigned a number, art is a way for prisoners to reassert their agency – and reclaim their lives.
With the plague decimating the ranks of laborers, surviving workers started pining for higher wages. When the monarchy responded by enacting taxes and restrictive labor laws, the peasants rebelled.
For almost a century, American popular culture has perpetuated the idea that only journalists working in foreign countries could be in danger.
A food historian explains how the popular boxed dinner played an important role in kitchen science, wars and women’s liberation.
Dan Birman, director of the new Netflix feature documentary ‘Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story,’ discusses his filmmaking process and the importance of the case.
Even those of us spared the worst of COVID-19 are missing our favorite pastimes, places and people. But pleasure can also take unexpected new forms in a pandemic.
It doesn’t matter how smooth your conversations have been. Absent the touch, taste and smell of a potential partner, you’re essentially flying blind.
The divide transcends partisan bickering. Some people really do recoil at the imposition of strict rules, while others become anxious when rules aren’t followed.
Long after a crisis recedes, residual anxiety can remain and become calcified in cultures, customs and institutions.
A global pandemic might be at the forefront of everyone’s minds. But we can’t assume that future threats will get the attention they deserve from people living in an information-saturated world.
Little Richard honed his craft as a teenage drag queen. In everything from his hairstyle to his lyrics, we see the influence of gay contemporaries like Esquerita and Billy Wright.
Beyond buying a fish tank or house plants, there are a number of creative ways to bring nature’s calming effects into your home.
When a 14-year-old Paul McCartney watched Little Richard in the hit film ‘The Girl Can’t Help It,’ he couldn’t have imagined that the two would one day take the stage together.
During these stressful times, if you find yourself reaching into the pantry of your past, you’re probably not alone.
With hand-washing top of mind, soap is an integral part of keeping clean. But people through the ages relied on earlier forms of soap more for cleaning objects than for personal hygiene.
Penn State Laureate William Doan found solace in a daily act that has benefits scientists are just beginning to understand.
Design bloggers have long had creeping suspicion of a more monolithic web, so a team of researchers decided to analyze the aesthetics of nearly 10,000 websites.
There’s a disconnect between how many low-wage workers are being described, and what they’re experiencing on the ground.