Four years after the meltdown of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant in Japan, photos are making the rounds on the Internet of frighteningly deformed daisies…

Laura Browder is the latest example of how harsh America can be on working mothers. When an employer called [3] the Houston mother of two to meet up for…

The announcement last week by the European Central Bank (ECB) that it was going to front-load asset purchases under its quantitative easing program was another…

It has become an emblematic image of police militarization: a half-dozen heavily outfitted officers, assault rifles drawn, advancing on an African American man in a…

Presenting the Best Picture award at this year’s Oscars, Sean Penn did all the right things to provoke a public shaming, and only by the grace…

Throughout the Bush years, funding for programs that refused to teach contraception in lieu of telling kids to wait until marriage--known as abstinence-only programs--ballooned [3], putting…

A couple of years ago I asked Temple Grandin if people with autism have a special ability to relate to animals. She is, of course, widely known…

On Tuesday, The Associated Press reported [3] The United States plans to send soldiers to Ukraine later this month to train the country’s national guard, which includes groups…

In the latest indication of a rolling government cover-up of the September 11, 2001, attacks, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is disowning an explosive…

Americans and the American social scientists who study them are obsessed withhappiness. What gets less attention is the perhaps deeper experience of meaningfulness. The two…

With the Likud Party electoral victory in Israel, the Republican Party is on a roll, having won two major elections in a row. The first…

I’ve written before about the root causes of religious conflict — in a nutshell: it is not about what many people would like you to think…