The circulation of fake news through social media in the 2016 presidential election has raised several concerns about online information.

Of course, there is nothing new about fake news as such – the satirical site “The...

Neoliberalism, the dominant narrative guiding Western democracies and their economies for almost 70 years, is crumbling all around us.

It was set up to protect our freedoms. But neoliberalism’s excesses and failures – from recent financial crises to soaring levels of income inequality – have fueled populist movements that...

One of every eight women in the United States will develop invasive breast cancer over her lifetime. Eighty percent of those cancers are fueled in part by estrogens.

One treatment for women whose breast cancer is fueled...

The Italians have delivered an overwhelming defeat to Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.

Initial tallies of Dec. 4’s referendum show a vote of just under 60 percent rejecting Renzi’s constitutional reform package, with a little more than 40 percent supporting it. Voter turnout was strong, with more than 68.5 percent of eligible voters inside...

Most of us considered microbes little more than nasty germs before science recently began turning our view of the microbial world on its head. A “microbe” is a bacterium and any other organism too small to see with the naked eye. After decades of trying to sanitize...

The Roman Catholic Church will allow priests all over the world to grant forgiveness for abortion. This announcement came from Pope Francis at the end of the Jubilee of Mercy – a holy year dedicated to forgiveness.

When the holy year concluded on Nov. 20, Pope Francis made permanent the permission that he had provisionally given priests to...

Cybersecurity concerns crop up everywhere you turn lately – around theelection, email services, retailers. And academic institutions haven’t been immune to security breaches either. According to a recent report by VMware, almost all universities...

Parental alienation – defined as when one parent’s relationship with his or her child is harmed by the other parent – can have devastating consequences.

Many legal professionals and psychologists have known about parental alienation for decades. But for political and...

In October, when Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the Nobel Peace Prize, some people were confused. Why did Santos receive the prize days after Colombian voters narrowly defeated a historic peace agreement?

A closer look at Santos’ strategic actions offers clarity about both the prize and why a new agreement has so quickly emerged.

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The public gets a lot of its news and information from Facebook. Some of it is fake. That presents a problem for the site’s users, and for the company itself.

Facebook cofounder and chairman Mark Zuckerberg said the company will find ways to address the problem, though he didn’t acknowledge its severity. And...