While emergency drills may help schools feel safer, they contain underlying and often unintended moral messages about the…
Rob Porter's ex-wife Jennifer Willoughby wrote movingly about staying in what she described as an abusive relationship.…
It's election season in Pakistan, and the Supreme Court is at war with the ruling party. Many Pakistanis wonder whether…
The rising costs of generic drugs have led to outcries. In a search for solutions, four hospital systems are proposing to…
Some experts fret that the US birthrate is on the decline. That might not be so surprising, when the cost of having children…
The last Carolina parakeet died in a zoo a century ago. A scientist tries to unravel some of this bird's lasting mysteries.
Social media provide shortcuts to things we yearn for, like connection and validation. Media effects scholars explain the…
A former State Department official says Bolton is a military hawk who wants the US to reclaim its global dominance -- mostly…
Just seven countries worldwide regularly execute people for drug crimes, most of them authoritarian regimes. Nothing suggests…
Changes to the official mandates guiding nonprofits and government agencies might be less significant than they appear.
The $60 billion in tariffs targeting China not only risks sparking a trade war, they represent a rejection of the WTO's…
The budget bill just signed into law by the president will both make it harder for restaurants to take worker tips while…
The effects of war, economic tension and accidental deaths have been mitigated by a sport that both cultures treasure.
Kids' fitness has declined for several decades, but kids in rich countries are showing improvement. What does this suggest…
Researchers spent 16 years at a high school and observed security tighten and then loosen up again. What they found is that…
The biggest ethical challenges for self-driving cars arise in mundane situations, not when crashes are unavoidable.
Facebook's users have wildly different expectations about privacy and security. What may look like inadequate oversight…
In the wake of a self-driving Uber car killing a pedestrian in Arizona, an ethicist examines the state of autonomous vehicle…