The technology that has helped propel the simulation theory may be new, but the questions it explores are ancient.
A psychology team distills the 6 principles of ‘consumer wisdom’: a set of habits that promotes well-being by aligning…
The achievement gap in reading is evident by students’ first year of school, according to a new study – making early…
The term ‘pro-life’ can seem simple – but how Americans and advocacy groups interpret it varies widely.
Landor v. Louisiana, one of this year’s highest-profile religious freedom cases, underscores how complex legal protections…
Like Bad Bunny’s music, Puerto Rican Muslims’ lives challenge ideas about race, religion and belonging in the Americas.
New research on 224 corporate apologies suggests investors reward leaders who take personal responsibility – with one…
Since appearing as a public shrine in 2001, the female death deity’s popularity has exploded and is a frequent sight in…
The memoir of Nathaniel Isaacs, a Jewish merchant who found himself shipwrecked in what is now South Africa, influenced…
The movement to protect the long-obscured sites allows communities to reckon with painful histories through healing, remembrance…
Two groups of clergy challenged a Washington state law meant to help fight child abuse – but which could have required…
While the rest of nature rises and slumbers to lunar and solar cycles, humans work and sleep to the resetting of their artificial…
Artists often turn to the supernatural to reflect on and speak to the anxieties brought about by social, religious and political…
As Japan’s national sport, sumo has shaped perceptions of its culture since the mid-1800s.
Kant’s 3 rules can offer a helpful check as to whether we are not only living well but thinking well.
People who highly value equality and purity are most likely to see excessive wealth as wrong, a new study suggests.
Two hundred years ago, the Erie Canal was often derided as a ‘folly.’ Yet the waterway went on to transform the American…
The church, whose members are often known as Mormons, has grown from a small community to 17.5 million members around the…
The retirement of United Mine Workers of America’s longtime president is a reminder that labor and religion have always…
Controversies often arise over pharmacists refusing to dispense medication, from Plan B to unproven COVID-19 treatments.…