El presidente mexicano Andrés Manuel López Obrador tiene un sueño para la península de Yucatán. Quiere construir un tren que aproveche la economía del turismo de Cancún para atraer más visitantes a las ciudades coloniales, pueblos mayas y sitios arqueológicos dispersos en la...

The nation’s wealthiest private colleges and universities have a new expense.

Thanks to a provision in the tax reform package that President Donald Trump signed in late 2017, these schools are paying a 1.4% tax on their net investment income. This highly...

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What is the smallest animal ever? – Peter, Newton, Massachusetts

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The biggest animal in the world is easy to see, if...

Citizens and policymakers around the world are grappling with how to limit companies’ use of data about individuals – and how private various types of information should be. But anthropologists like me know that cultures vary widely in their views of...

In 2007, the pornography website Pornhub averaged 1 million visits per day. By 2018 this had increased to 92 million visits per day – or 33.5 billion views over the course of a year.

As an interdisciplinarygroupof “sexademics,” we’re interested in porn’s cultural role and impact. A common question we hear is whether...

A business group that represents the CEOs of America’s most powerful companies recently issued a statement that may sound like a roar.

But it’s actually more of a whimper.

For decades, the Business Roundtable has maintained that the primary purpose of a corporation is to provide returns for its shareholders. The Roundtable –...

The summer of 2019 has seen week after week of protest in Hong Kong.

The protests began June 9 when as many as a million people marched against a bill that could allow suspects to be extradited to China. Hong Kong’s chief executive, Carrie Lam, who was appointed by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in 2017, proclaimed the legislation dead days...

President Trump recently asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to deny entry to two Democratic congresswomen planning to visit Israel. Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, Trump...

The Abstract features interesting research and the people behind it.

Robert Kelchen, a scholar of higher education, oversees the college rankings at Washington Monthly. The magazine’s rankings are meant to provide an alternative to the more...

It used to be that only Hollywood production companies with deep pockets and teams of skilled artists and technicians could make deepfake videos, realistic fabrications appearing to show people doing and saying things they never actually did or said. Not anymore...