Opinion: WhatsApp skewed Brazilian election, showing social media’s danger to democracy
Brazil’s WhatsApp election scandal should be a wake-up call particularly for other developing world democracies.
George H.W. Bush: America’s last foreign policy president
George H.W. Bush was the last person elected president of the United States with any prior foreign policy experience.
Opinion: Virtual reality tours give rural students a glimpse of college life
A federally funded program is trying to increase high school graduation, college readiness and college enrollment at low resource high schools.
We found grizzly, black and polar bears together for the first time
North America’s three bear species — black bears, grizzly bears and polar bears — don’t typically live in the same place. But in Wapusk National Park, on the west coast of Hudson Bay in northern Manitoba, all three bears were…
We now know that what these combat veterans were facing was likely what today we call post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. We are now better able to recognize it, and treatments have certainly advanced, but we still don’t have a…
Two-thirds of all U.S. states have legalized some kind of marijuana. The argument goes that its nationwide expansion is inevitable. Two marijuana policy researchers question that narrative.
Research shows when ex-offenders regain their voting rights, they can became more trusting of government and the criminal justice system.
One hundred years after Congress passed the first daylight saving legislation, more and more people are doubting the wisdom of changing the clocks.
The modern outpouring of anti-immigrant and anti-Semitic sentiment is reminiscent of the political climate during the years between the first and second world wars in the U.S.
