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The hoopla surrounding the novel’s release is misguided; after all, how much power could a novel written 50 years ago wield in today’s charged environment?
Learning about social psychology can make you more liberal. I know this because it is exactly what happened to me.
The same conditions – ultimately tied to nutrient runoff – that created the damaging toxic blooms and dead zones in US waterways of recent years are forecast to return this year.
The last-minute bailout deal will keep Greece in the common currency, but at a cost of the dream that was the euro.
Militants are tapping into centuries-old literary tastes, appropriating them for their own nefarious ends.
The number of libraries is dropping drastically across almost all states. Will a revised No Child Left Behind law make a difference?
Spreading fishing pressure evenly across whole marine ecosystems sounds like a great idea. But there’s a hitch – we can’t technologically do it, and even if we could, it would be expensive.
It’s got its challenges here on Earth – but the hypothetically fast, safe and self-powered Hyperloop could be just the ticket to connect future colonies on Mars.
Black Like Us? – a new exhibition at the Birmingham Museum of Art – looks at how blackness has been portrayed in American art through the years.
Twenty years after the mass killings of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in 1995 during the Balkan War, Europeans still grapple with the legacy of genocide.
The tech industry is known for having a notably non-diverse workforce. But bias training – when not validated by research that shows it works – isn’t going to solve the problem.
The president’s proposal to more than double the overtime threshold was a good first step, but he shouldn’t stop there.
It is time to have an open and honest discussion about who is – and isn’t – being trained to secure the future of our world’s health at the World Health Organization headquarters.
An academic asks: whom should we teach? What should we teach? How should we teach?
The media predictions are dire, but the reality of the Greek monetary crisis may be less sensational.
Vaccines aren’t just for animals anymore. Research shows priming plants with pathogen-derived compounds strengthens their immune systems and enhances protection against future attack.
Language can subtly undermine women’s sports in a number of ways.
A recent study concluded that children who watched Sesame Street in the 1970s fared better in school. Why?
The House Appropriations Committee wants to stop the SEC from requiring the disclosure of political contributions. Here’s why that’s a bad idea.
Digital media and the model of “leaderless resistance” enhance the threat by the Islamic State here at home.
What message does it send when we remove symbols of an unsavory – but important – part of American history?
For many borrowers — particularly those with advanced degrees — a high debt is far from a crisis.
The moon might harbor bits of the Earth that blasted off our planet billions of years ago. These lunar time capsules could hold secrets about conditions here at home back when life was first emerging.
Why does suburban drug dealing tend to skirt the rampant violence of inner-city drug dealing?