An emergency and critical care physician gives a dispatch from the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic.
As long as teachers are creative and resourceful, kids will keep learning. What's less clear is how schools will make…
Census data are used to determine federal funding on everything from highway construction to poverty services. With many…
Universities and colleges around the world are closing. People are fleeing from cities. Some people are being forced to…
Before schools and workplaces closed, people could have been exposed. How do we best manage that?
In past recessions, donors have tightened their pursestrings even as the need has grown. But two scholars explain why, at…
Today's coronavirus pandemic has echoes in the yellow fever pandemic of the 1790s. Then, as now, workers struggled with…
The Greeks treated their city-states like bodies. To protect them from disasters, it was the poor that were often sacrificed.
Researchers are turning microbes into microscopic construction crews by altering their DNA to make them produce building…
Los niños no parecen enfermar de manera severa con el coronavirus. ¿Entonces por qué se cierran tantas escuelas?
As a public health measure, cities and states around the country have ordered restaurants to close or to switch to pickup…
If government and business collaborate with workers, a scholar of labor relations writes, current economic problems could…
While the Great Depression reduced inequality and closed the racial wealth gap, the Great Recession of 2009 did the opposite.
Among the more than 20,000 drugs approved by the FDA, there may be some that can treat COVID-19. A team at the University…
The coronavirus pandemic alters who we are, writes a psychologist. It affects how we think, how we relate to others and…
A scholar who has reviewed the efforts of nations around the world to protect their citizens from foreign interference says…
Water is essential for health, economic well-being and social equity, but too many people around the world still don't…
Schools are closed, houses of worship have suspended services, and many restaurants are down to delivery only. Must we also…
Sexual health experts say it's a misconception that the cervix is insensitive, which can have implications for some…
A new survey shows that people with advanced degrees make more money starting out on the same jobs as those with just bachelor's…