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The United Nations is calling on world governments to step up action against climate change. Can China, the world's…
Efforts to get more Americans to earn a college degree steals attention from what makes up a college education, a historian…
Visual images of candidates in debates send subtle signals to viewers about who the front-runners are – and aren't.
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A sociologist spent time as a volunteer firefighter – and learned more about how institutional culture can shape a person's…
Prodded by Michelle Obama and other government leaders, Walmart and other major US retailers vowed to build hundreds of…
Graduates of historically black colleges and universities make more than peers who went to other schools, according to new…
A philosopher argues that people in today's world are not paying attention to others' views because they live in…
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Images of wildfires are powerful, but can make climate catastrophe seem like something spectacular and distant. So some…
Nearly half of patients with congestive heart failure who are hospitalized and then discharged end up back in the hospital…
Political leaders are ignoring dangerous threats to American national sovereignty, security and citizens' peace of mind.
The typical American's annual household carbon footprint is over five times the world per capita average.
Presidential candidates and the current president have all talked about ways to lower drug costs, but experts know it is…
Demands for regulation of media violence reached a fever pitch after RFK's assassination, and networks scrambled to…