As Facebook celebrates 15 years of virtual friendship, social science has compiled an expansive body of research that documents the public’s love-hate relationship with its best frenemy.
What many once viewed as a confidant has devolved into a messy codependence, mired by ambiguity and...
Jackie Robinson will be remembered for his courage, athleticism, tenacity and sacrifice on Jan. 31, the centennial of his birth. By confronting Jim Crow – both as a baseball player and as a civil rights activist – he changed America.
“Back...
Read more: How Jackie Robinson’s wife, Rachel, helped him break baseball's color line
The 2020 presidential election campaign has already started.
Election campaigns inspire hope, but they can also quickly lead to political despair. During the last two elections, America’s polarized citizens experienced significant swings between hope...
Imagine there was a store where there were no prices on items, and you never knew what you’d pay until you’d picked out your purchases and were leaving the shop. You might be skeptical that the store would have any incentive to...
Read more: What would happen if hospitals openly shared their prices?
The State of the Union is back on after Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said she invited President Donald Trump to address Congress and the nation on Feb. 5.
Earlier, she had disinvited the president from giving the speech in the House on the scheduled date of Jan. 29.
While...
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Brazilian rescue workers continue searching for more than 300 people missing after a dam burst at an iron ore mine over the weekend.
The dam, which ruptured on Jan. 25 close to the...
Read more: Dam collapse at Brazilian mine exposes grave safety problems
A decade ago, on Jan. 29, 2009, newly inaugurated President Barack Obama signed his first bill into law: the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009.
It was the latest legislative effort to close the persistently stubborn gap between how much women and men earn. At...
Anyone who’s watched “Bridget Jones’s Diary” knows one of her New Year’s resolutions is “Not go out every night but stay in and read books and listen to classical music.”
The reality, however, is substantially different. What people actually do in...
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Nearly 34,000 people were murdered in Mexico last year, according to new government statistics — the...
Read more: Mexico is bleeding. Can its new president stop the violence?
Researchers around the world are trying to figure out ways to feed a growing population, which is estimated to reach nearly 10 billion by 2050. But as humanity struggles to increase crop...