According to some reports, thousands of people from around the world are signing up to fight on behalf of Ukraine. But comparisons…
Classic literature is full of themes that speak to refugees’ experience today, from the Book of Exodus to ‘The Grapes…
A sports economist explains how the deal leaves players with a fundamentally different – and in many ways, worse – arrangement…
Inspired by the sensitive, handsome men they see on TV in their favorite K-dramas, they travel abroad in pursuit of a ‘soft’…
To Russian nationalists, if the Ukrainian language is classified as a derivative of the Russian language, the invasion looks…
The Asian American actress rose to fame in an era when white actors in yellowface were more likely to play Asian characters…
Soccer’s governing body has long sheltered behind a view that the game is apolitical. Sanctioning Russia over invasion…
A speech expert wonders what this says about the pressures women in leadership roles feel – and the broader cultural impulse…
The recent US ban on avocado imports from Mexico underscores the risks of being so heavily reliant on a product that comes…
As long as you don’t tune out the world and protect your hearing, it’s hard to overdo it.
Black writers like Charles Chesnutt had to contend with a dilemma writers today know all too well: give the audience and…
Despite the belief that people are deeply skeptical of strangers, study after study shows that humans are primed to trust…
A new database could pave the way for a more fair and consistent way to score slam dunks, a self-described ‘dunk scientist’…
The International Olympic Committee oversees several humanitarian initiatives. But it avoids letting human rights concerns…
Numerology ties in with how our brains work, but that doesn’t mean its claims make sense.
Ono’s commitment to regenerative rituals is instructive in an era of turmoil and instability.
When an attention-based media system always allows the noise-makers to dominate the conversation, it becomes impossible…
On Dec. 2, 1941, a publication date was set for Mori’s first book. Five days later, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor,…
Have you wondered why cats are so nimble and seem to fit perfectly in cups, boxes, and other small places? Or how cats communicate…
Two poems that were originally excised from ‘Ariel,’ Plath’s seminal poetry collection, vividly channel the painful…