To lower health care costs, the Trump administration will have to wrangle a complex system fraught with competing interests.
The Catholic Church’s teachings on ‘just war’ have guided leaders’ long history of opposing many military interventions.
New research shows that parents who read to their 6- to 8-year-olds nightly boost their children’s creativity and empathy.
HBCUs make up just 3% of the country’s colleges and universities. But their graduates include 40% of Black engineers and…
Washington’s fundamental character as a military leader was forged in the Ohio River Valley, where he also inadvertently…
Partisan debates are less heated at the local level, providing lessons that might help calm the waters nationally.
Cemeteries are a treasure trove of local history and family connection. Technology and ingenuity have made mapping them…
Researchers are embarking on the RNA equivalent of the Human Genome Project, including sequencing all the chemical modifications…
Bruce Springsteen wrote and recorded ‘Streets of Minneapolis’ within days of Alex Pretti’s killing, continuing a long…
Researchers describe what they call a consumption stigma – when you feel judged or looked down on for using certain products…
Other billionaires who own newspapers are doing a better job, a journalism professor explains.
Clergy sometimes place themselves in harm’s way for moral and religious reasons. A scholar of religious ethics explains…
Incarcerated in rough barracks surrounded by barbed wire and armed soldiers, Japanese Americans made functional and beautiful…
Victorians found a way to anonymously tell people they didn’t like exactly how they felt.
Goldenberg’s Peanut Chews, Goobers and Whitman’s Sampler boxes of chocolates are just a few confectionary classics that…
Dark matter doesn’t seem to interact with the matter we can see and touch, so scientists look for it in unusual places,…
A research team has paved plastic-infused roads in Texas and Bangladesh, with promising results.
The 2011 revolution transformed religious life in unexpected ways – especially among some young Egyptians.