Market-based policies work to fight climate change, from India to Jamaica
Conservatives worldwide favor carbon pricing, cap-and-trade systems and other innovative environmental plans – just not…
Conservatives worldwide favor carbon pricing, cap-and-trade systems and other innovative environmental plans – just not…
After a hurricane strikes or an earthquake makes shockwaves, try to support nonprofits that are clear about what they do…
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As deforestation rates in Brazil rise, it's worth asking whether the country can repeat the successes of the last decade.…
The volume of migration to the US from Mexico dropped 53% between 2003 and 2017.
A key element of the battle between truth and propaganda has nothing to do with technology. It has to do with how people…
A 19th-century volume contained a mystery for two historians who combined their knowledge to tell the story of the women…
New York City could be on the verge of dismantling gifted programs at its elementary and middle schools. Taking that step…
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On Sept. 10, Muslims will observe the day of Ashura, to mark the martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammed's grandson Hussain.
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The man whose book outsold all others, except the Bible.
A campus psychologist explains why so many students ask him for help after they've failed courses.
New research on consumer behavior shows that we tend to match some types of choices the people around us make, but not others.
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Will there ever be an electronic equivalent of Martin Luther King Jr.’s 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' or Émile…
Poverty and violence are often cited as the reasons people emigrate from Central America, but factors such as drought, exacerbated…
Learning from what actually worked during the United Nations' infamously ineffective 1994 peacekeeping mission in Rwanda…