People’s perceptions of risk shape where businesses choose to locate, new research suggests. Interestingly, conservatives…
At a time when California’s farm operators are struggling to hire enough people, providing better benefits could attract…
Discrimination has made it harder for Black people in the Los Angeles area to buy and keep their homes. Did it also make…
German philosopher Paul Tillich’s writings about affirming oneself in the face of anxiety, repression and meaninglessness…
Ancient practices hold important lessons for farmers facing drying lands, but they were often more complex than modern societies…
Computing pioneer Alan Turing suggested training machines with rewards and punishments. Two computer scientists put the…
The dread that AI evokes seems a distraction from the more disquieting scrutiny of humanity’s own dark nature.
The word ‘deficit’ may sound alarming, but America’s trade gap is a sign of its financial and economic dominance.
The Trump administration’s job cuts and advisory board changes at the agency won’t change those rules, as a former EPA…
A historian of the Mauthausen concentration camp says US troops and the Spanish antifascists they freed were united in a…
Supported by UAE and the US, the self-declared autonomous Somali region has pushed back Islamists’ advances.
Unhoused people are more likely to die in hospitals or on the streets.
Increasingly, these types of tranquilizers are turning up in fentanyl, oxycodone and other illegal opioids.
Alcohol is the third-leading preventable cause of cancer in the US, accounting for tens of thousands of cancer deaths per…
There’s an impulse by universities and media to inaccurately document hip-hop’s history. The genre is, in part, a response…
‘Pañcatantra,’ a striking collection of animal fables in which birds, lions and others speak and reason as humans do,…