In the United States, older men of European descent (so-called white men) have significantly higher suicide rates than any other demographic group. For example, their…

'It’s astonishing that the new Dietary Guidelines...are actually obscuring science-based recommendations that Americans should significantly cut their red meat intake.'   The Obama administration on…

EAST LANSING, Mich. -- It's not just strangers who target children online. Kids' own friends are sexually harassing them over the Internet, finds new research…

Why does life exist? Popular hypotheses credit a primordial soup, a bolt of lightning, and a colossal stroke of luck. But if a provocative new…

It is all there now for us to see. Decades of cynical, poorly devised policy in the Middle East, vacant of any principle our indispensable…

More than three years have passed since Colorado residents voted to legalize marijuana, which immediately allowed adults to possess and cultivate limited amounts of marijuana.…

After an eventful 2015, where we witnessed the first US rate hike in 9 years, crude oil dropping to 6 year lows, a dramatic selloff…

If you don't live on the West Coast of the United States, you might not have heard about the massive gas well leak that's been…

The following is an excerpt from the new book  Disposable Futures: The Seduction of Violence in the Age of Spectacle [3] by Brad Evans and Henry…

Perhaps the story can begin with the way an "aide to [President] George W. Bush [apparently Karl Rove] spoke dismissively of "the reality-based community." Rove,…

Hillary Clinton is said to be buoyant over her prospects to become the next U.S. President, as Republicans feud over Donald Trump’s disruptive campaign and…

The Washington Post‘s Catherine Rampell devoted a column (12/24/15) to a popular Washington pastime: trying to get young people angry at their parents and grandparents…