The Affordable Care Act has allowed many preventive health services, including cancer screenings and vaccines, to be free…
Three pandemic-related unemployment benefit programs expire on Labor Day, putting millions of mostly low-income families…
Hurricane Ida left the entire city of New Orleans in the dark and renewed discussion of burying power lines. But there’s…
Ancient Athenians and Romans also let shared mass tragedies propel justifications for going to war – even when it wasn’t…
In the wake of 9/11, some called for rounding up whole groups of people viewed as potential threats to the nation. But Transportation…
Rebalancing labor relations so that workers are empowered would be an effective way to address racial wealth disparities…
The pandemic has made some people rush to get tattoos for different reasons. A tattoo historian explains why tattoos are…
Needs will continue in Haiti and New Orleans – and for Afghan refugees – long past the point when most donors will have…
A second plot was planned on 9/11, but there were too few terrorists to carry it off. Twenty years later, al-Qaida and its…
The COVID-19 pandemic and a growing global refugee crisis have shone a light on the ever-increasing need for new approaches…
While China has taken steps to rein in the playing of video games among students during the school week, a U.S. scholar…
Images of water gushing into subway stations filled social media following heavy rain in New York City. Solutions are at…
Evidence is mounting that, as the climate warms, the amount of rain falling in heavy storms is increasing, especially in…
A top White House aide to President George W. Bush recounts what 9/11 was like for White House staffers.
Counter to what you might expect, events like the February cold wave that froze Texas can actually become more likely with…
The country became the first to make bitcoin a formal part of its payments system, but whether it’ll catch on is another…
Rachel Hadas says that despite the cascade of scary news, humans will adapt, as they always have – and provides evidence…