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Although many Black churches have an aging hierarchy, other factors such as racial and economic disparities place barriers to going online.
The idea of organized satanic witchcraft was invented in 15th-century Europe by church and state authorities, who at first had a hard time convincing regular folks it was real.
Screening multiple samples with a single test gets more people diagnosed using fewer supplies. Two health policy researchers explain how it works and how it could help the US.
Your faithful friend’s view of the world is different than yours, but maybe not in the way you imagine.
During the last six months, news reports have mentioned dozens of drugs that may be effective against the new coronavirus. Here we lay out the evidence and reveal which ones are proven to work. Or not.
Is there a single master gene that controls longevity in all mammals? Or are ‘Fountain of Youth’ genes little more than a myth?
Wild dolphins are fast, smart and hard to study, but it is important to understand how human actions affect their health. So we are building a drone to sample hormones from the blowholes of dolphins.
With most therapy sessions now online, a psychologist explores whether more self-disclosure by therapists – sharing more about their own lives – might help their patients.
Marches, demonstrations, civic unrest, attacks by law enforcement and the military on protesting civilians: The parallels between the summer of 1932 and what is happening currently are striking.
Setting off fireworks may be fun for you, but for some of your neighbors it could be a traumatic experience.
Monastic tradition offers some useful advice about the value of isolation.
Increased business lobbying for incentives and mandates may tip the balance in favor of a cleaner US energy policy.
If teenagers organizing on social media can hamper a presidential campaign rally, how challenging is it to manipulate elections?
Race, class and national identity mean that views within the American Muslim community vary when it comes to such hot-button issues as policing, protests and discrimination.
The recent spike in new coronavirus cases in the US is not due to a second wave, but simply the virus moving into new populations or surging in places that opened up too soon.
An economist puzzles over why fireworks have been going off nightly across the country for so many weeks in a row.
The US military can exempt from service those who are religiously or morally opposed to violence. But conscientious objector status won’t help soldiers who disagree with specific lawful orders.
After enduring decades of exploitation at the hands of the French, Haiti somehow ended up paying reparations – to the tune of nearly $30 billion in today’s money.
Tribal lands are hot spots for COVID-19 infections and deaths. Racism is one of the reasons.
Local leaders and business owners have had to get creative to help their residents stay healthy and keep community economies going.
Texas hospitals are filling up with new COVID-19 cases, and many of the people falling ill are young.
For some viewers, President Trump’s July 3 speech at Mount Rushmore represented love of country. Others saw it very differently.
COVID-19 has again demonstrated the health inequities that exist between African Americans and whites.
Millions of dollars are spent every election by corporations that want to influence state regulations and policies, and that’s likely to continue in the upcoming election.