Alan Greenspan spent decades as the most powerful economist on earth, genuflecting at the altar of Ayn Rand and insisting that banks would regulate themselves because...
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In 1922, William Jennings Bryan gave a commencement address at the University of Florida Law School. My grandfather was in the audience. That family connection to one of...
The concept of universal basic income (UBI) is gaining traction globally, with pilot programs underway in Finland, Canada, and the Netherlands. While it promises economic...
Studying abroad offers students significant advantages in the job market, enhancing critical thinking, communication skills, and cultural awareness. With increasing funding and...
Democracy did not arrive in Athens one morning fully formed, like a gift from the gods. Human beings were limiting power, arguing about fairness, and building consensus long...
Somewhere between the rally ticket and the ruptured friendship, between the crypto coin and the quiet erosion of your retirement account, there is a number. It is the amount you...
A landmark study published in Nature has put hard numbers on something ecologists have long suspected: insects do not just fertilize flowers, they sustain human lives. For...
Harvard Law School professors love to use hypotheticals in their classes. So let’s try one that they have not subjected their students to in its 200 years of storied history. What if the Law School split itself into two parts
Forests take up 25 to 30 percent of human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide—a strong greenhouse gas—and therefore are considered to play a crucial role in mitigating the speed and magnitude of climate change.
Bernie Sanders has the best policies. But Hillary Clinton has the chops to advance a progressive agenda—if we make her.
Whether it’s by coincidence or causation, the financial collapse of 2008 and 2009 has resulted in growing angst over income inequality.
You’ve probably heard the popular aphorism “to the victor belongs the spoils of the enemy.” But you might not know who first said it.
Three police officers were killed and at least three wounded in a shooting in Baton Rouge. Ten days earlier – on July 7 – a sniper gunned down five police officers in Dallas.
Does Hillary Clinton understand that the biggest divide in American politics is no longer between the right and the left, but between the anti-establishment and the establishment?
Donald Trump is now the Republican nominee for president of the United States and millions of people are asking: “How could this happen?”Donald Trump is now the Republican nominee for president of the United States and millions of people are asking: “How could this happen?”
Ten miles south of Tel Aviv, I stand on a catwalk over two concrete reservoirs the size of football fields and watch water pour into them from a massive pipe emerging from the sand. The pipe is so large I could walk through it standing upright, were it not full of Mediterranean seawater pumped from an intake a mile offshore.
We’ve heard the predictions of how greenhouse gas emissions will drive changes in the temperatures and precipitation people experience. But how these changes affect the world’s forests has broad implications for the future as well.
Is there a difference between calling a woman or a man “hysterical”? The word’s origin as the term for a psychological disorder grounded in female physiology suggests the answer is yes.
Since the election of George W. Bush, I have been telling anyone who would listen that the 21st-century Republican Party was unlike any other centre-right political party.
The GOP presidential nominee's acceptance speech was a litany of fear and resentment, a dog whistle to disaffected white Americans.
Donald Trump accepted the Republican nomination for the presidency in a speech destined to be remembered by history as the “I am your voice” speech – a phrase that Trump repeated several times to tie together his themes of economic revitalization, military strength and government honesty.
Sixty six million years ago, the dinosaurs suddenly disappeared, along with most of the species on the planet. The extinction occurred at precisely the same time that a giant asteroid struck the Earth.
Global climate change, driven by human emissions of greenhouse gases, is already affecting the planet, with more heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and floods, and accelerating sea-level rise.
When New England fishers complained of working harder and harder to catch fewer and fewer fish, Spencer Baird assembled a scientific team to investigate.
Rising income inequality and the resulting scarcity of middle-income jobs are a key reason more young Americans are having children without first getting married.
Most of the headlines in recent weeks have focused on Brazil’s troubling political crisis. But the country is also in the midst of a deep economic recession.
At a time of intense national attention on law enforcement and race, a new study suggests that racially based fear plays a role in public support for policing reforms.
The recent shooting deaths of eight police officers in two separate incidents has shocked the nation and left us searching for answers.
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Imagine going through one of the most physically and emotionally demanding experiences...
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Therapists often use dream interpretation to delve into patients' emotions, but true...