Something feels broken, and it isn't just your news feed. Across wealthy democracies, people are sensing that extraordinary technological power and individual freedom aren't...
The most dangerous moment for American democracy may not come when those attempting to dismantle it believe they are winning. It may come when they begin to fear they are running...
Liberals and conservatives are not arguing from different moral planets — they are arguing from different maps of the same territory. The territory is harm. The argument is about...
What if changing the world doesn't require a giant leap? Perhaps creating a more loving world begins with the smallest choices we make each day -- one baby step at a time.
You pick up your phone to check one quick notification, and forty minutes later you're rage-scrolling through political arguments, feeling vaguely terrible about your life, your...
Rural communities hit by floods, wildfires, and hurricanes don't just lose homes and crops — they lose the fragile scaffolding that keeps mental health and sobriety intact. The...
The most consequential economic force of the next fifty years is not artificial intelligence, climate change, or geopolitical rivalry. It is something far quieter and far more...
On August 19, the U.S. Treasury quietly announced it would at least double the size of certain debt buyback operations, and bond markets moved immediately. Most Americans...
Somewhere in California, a farmer is staring at cracked earth one season and a flooded field the next, and the bank is not particularly interested in hearing about either....
Cities are on the front line of climate change. While their footprints cover a mere two per cent of the Earth’s surface, they consume 78 per cent of global energy and account for over 60 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions.
There are always two sides of a story. Unfortunately, when it comes to the history of Thanksgiving, generations of Americans have been taught a one-sided history in homes and schools.
Spring and summer 2017 were among the wettest on record in eastern North America.
If you have oak trees in your neighborhood, perhaps you’ve noticed that some years the ground is carpeted with their acorns, and some years there are hardly any.
Once upon a time, not long ago, Mexicans dominated the flow of migrants coming to the U.S. Mexican migration expanded over the course of much of the 20th century and into the start of the 21st century.
Growing up in Tanzania, I knew that fruit trees were useful. Climbing a mango tree to pick a fruit was a common thing to do when I was hungry, even though at times there were unintended consequences.
Mass shootings have become a routine occurrence in America. Gun-makers have long refused to take responsibility for their role in this epidemic. That may be about to change.
The devastating impacts of Harvey, Irma, Jose and Maria across the United States and the Caribbean provide tragic reminders of the catastrophic risks we face on our coasts.
When the Brazilian city of São Paulo abruptly went dark at midday on Aug. 19, there was talk of the Apocalypse – not all of it in jest.
This year, three studies showed that humour is useful for engaging the public about climate change.
If President Donald Trump had gotten his way, the nation would have celebrated the centennial of the World War I armistice last year on Nov. 11 with a massive military parade in Washington, D.C.
One year ago, the international scientific community could hardly have expected that Greta Thunberg, a teenager from Sweden, would become one of its greatest allies.
For more than 3.5 billion years, living organisms have thrived, multiplied and diversified to occupy every ecosystem on Earth.
The concept of a canary in a coal mine – a sensitive species that provides an alert to danger – originated with British miners, who carried actual canaries underground through the mid-1980s to detect the presence of deadly carbon monoxide gas.
Cincinnati Christian College is one of a growing number of colleges and universities – 21 private colleges since 2016 – forced to close their doors for financial reasons. The trend has affected the public sector, too. At least 33 public colleges – including community colleges – have consolidated within their state systems or merged with other institutions since 2016.
We live in an era — the Anthropocene — where humans and societies are reshaping and changing ecosystems.
My recent research increasingly focuses on how individuals can and do manipulate, or “game,” contemporary capitalism. It involves what social scientists call reflexivity and physicists call the observer effect.
The grasslands of the Canadian Prairies are a hidden gem for bird watchers, with millions of migratory birds passing through the area each year.
A global coalition of 11,000 scientists has come up with a plan for dealing with the climate emergency.
In November 2018, 20,000 Google employees across the world walked out of work. They were protesting the ways in which their employer had failed to address sexual harassment in the workplace.
Twitter has announced that it is banning paid-for political adverts, just as the UK enters a general election, saying that the reach of political messages “should be earned, not bought”.
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Mars is entering Cancer on August 12 and this shift changes how you move through...
There is a moment most of us remember — standing in front of someone we loved, arms...
Recent research explores the complex dynamics of altruistic cruelty, revealing that...
You imagined the newborn haze would be hard, but you did not quite picture yourself...
What if peace of mind depends not on remembering every hurt, but on keeping only the...
Many individuals unknowingly adopt limiting beliefs from others, which can lead to...