For a generation of young Americans, choosing where to go to college — or whether to go at all — has become a complex calculation of costs ...

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When legendary primatologist Jane Goodall passed away at 91 earlier this month, many memorials focused on her outsized ...

A major rift has opened between the Vatican and the American right. Pope Leo XIV, the first US-born pontiff, has infuriated ...

If you stayed awake in science class as a kid, the payoff comes when you get a good laugh out of Freya McGhee’s jokes.

"Trump has been able to make this spectacle where you have disorder on one side and him on the other, and he can constantly ...

The gap between the rich and poor in America is huge and well-known. But what’s not very well known is just how large it is. According to the London School of Economics and Political Science, “The ...

Dismantling racial inequalities that have plagued the United States since its founding will boost economic growth and create new jobs for everyone, top advisers to President Joe Biden said Tuesday, ...

The impact of this constant mental churn extends far beyond distraction. Each day, people make hundreds of micro-decisions, which notification to check first, which news to trust, which message to ...