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Why are there problems with US academic accreditation, and what policies are needed to improve and assure academic quality?
Some might say we’re in the age of the ‘priceless’ child, but The New Yorker certainly doesn’t think so.
Forget about classified messages. Hillary Clinton’s campaign has bigger problems to worry about.
Immigration policies for people fleeing poverty or civil unrest dominate the news, but there’s been a huge rise in wealthy migrants to the West. Are these “cash for citizenship” programs worth it?
Two-thirds of released prisoners in the US are arrested again within three years. Here’s how we could change that.
Powerful images – like the one of Aylan Kurdi that flooded the Internet last week – can spark political change.
It’s human nature to assume there must be a valid reason for inequalities in society. What’s the psychology behind why we believe there’s something fundamentally different between haves and have-nots?
A planned US drone strike program in Syria will waste life, political capital and resources.
The UN climate talks in Bonn last week left many key issues unresolved, creating big challenges for forging a global deal in Paris later this year that would avert the worst effects of climate change.
There are plenty of strategies to reduce tobacco use – especially in young people – that don’t go as far as a total sales ban.
Children as young as six can show math anxiety. What’s the link between parents’ math anxiety and their children’s math anxiety?
Research shows baby booms are generally bad news for the economy – at least for the boom’s babies.
Research shows that government interventions decried by the GOP actually make people happier.
A significant share of the workforce wakes up every day without knowing at what time they’ll work – or even if they will earn anything at all.
It’s not necessarily the redesign that matters – it’s when and how you unveil it.
Academically advanced students from countries such as India are spending much more time studying STEM subjects. Should US kids work harder to compete?
The most radical reinvention of work since the rise of industrialization is upon us, as more of us drift toward app-enabled self-employment.
For millennia, the Koyukon Athabascan have called the 20,000-foot mountain “the tall one.”
Stigma toward heroin use might prevent a lot of people from using the drug, but these attitudes don’t help people who are dependent.
For coaches like Ohio State’s Urban Meyer, it’s not just about X’s and O’s.
In going after Tom Brady, the NFL went all-in – and now must face a new reality.
Sophisticated models and supercomputers allow researchers to create a high-fidelity map of the Earth’s trees – and show that we’re losing billions of trees a year.
The Endangered Species Act may stave off extinction for the Delta smelt in California, but will it help this threatened fish – or any other at-risk species – recover and thrive again?
The US may be closer than people think to a deal over geographical indications, laws that protect products based on their location such as Champagne, Darjeeling tea and prosciutto di Parma.