A scholar talks to Muslims in Puerto Rico and comes back with an understanding of their rich history and their struggles.
Better funding, integrated neighborhoods and a diverse teacher workforce are among the things needed to dismantle a long-standing…
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Where you come down on the latest internet hullabaloo depends on how your brain fills in gaps in the sounds you hear.
A journalism scholar and biographer of Tom Wolfe looks back at a literary great's life of challenging cultural standards.
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The sexual revolution made it acceptable for women to have premarital sex. Yet, an orgasm gap remains. Addressing the cultural…
Leftist former President Lula da Silva is the clear favorite in Brazil's 2018 presidential race, leading his closest…
The Iran nuclear deal will struggle to survive the damage done when Trump pulled the US out on May 8. So will US-Europe…
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Many are wondering what Facebook, Twitter and even the government can do to stop the spread of fake news. Behavioral science…
Most people have all sorts of breadcrumbs of their identity scattered around the internet. A dedicated sleuth can piece…
This Speed Read makes the case why you should be nice to spiders you encounter in your home and consider a live-and-let-live…
Chytrid fungus has caused a global "amphibian apocalypse," killing frogs worldwide. Now some appear to be evolving…
In the largest citizen science experiment to date, 11,336 people sent poop samples to this San Diego lab so that microbiologists…
A new program uses tax incentives to encourage investors to help revitalize low-income communities. Research on similar…
It can be unpleasant to be mistaken for someone of a different gender. When an algorithm does it secretly, it's even…
Middle-class houses in the US have grown ever larger. The average single-family home is almost twice the size of a home…
A bill to deal with the opioid crisis recently came out of a Senate committee. While some of its recommendations are good,…
What does this move represent? It depends on who you ask, according to scholars in this roundup of articles from our archives.