To mollify parents and obey new state laws, teachers are cutting all sorts of lessons Excerpts from Mary Wollstonecraft’s “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.” Passages from Christopher Columbus’s…
A shortage of affordable housing, the ending of pandemic aid, soaring rents and other factors are feeding the national issue. A 98-year-old Kentucky woman recently met her great-great-great-granddaughter for the…
Campuses are prime spots for solar power. Teachers can also prepare kids for a climate-friendly future, a new report argues. This story was originally published in Boiling Point, a weekly…
"I melted when she did this to protect me from the cold." There's something so refreshing about people discussing specific qualities they love in a person — and none of…
A series of suicide attempts reported by detainees and officials at a single New Mexico immigration detention facility are underscoring concerns about mental health treatment outcomes in the system. Brazilian…
Anxiety is the most common psychological disorder affecting adults in the United States. In older people, it's associated with considerable distress as well as ill health, diminished quality of life…
(JTA) — Albania’s prime minister announced plans to open a museum in Tirana dedicated to the stories of its citizens who saved Jews during the Holocaust. The museum will also…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A crisis over suspected poisonings targeting Iranian schoolgirls escalated Sunday as authorities acknowledged over 50 schools were struck in a wave of possible cases.…
SELMA, Ala. (AP) — President Joe Biden used the searing memories of Selma’s “Bloody Sunday” to recommit to a cornerstone of democracy, lionizing a seminal moment from the civil rights movement at…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Nearly two years into the California reparations task force’s work, the group still has yet to make key decisions that will be at the heart of…