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/ 1 year agoAre people born with good balance? A physical therapist explains the systems that help keep you on your toes
Balancing well is a whole-body experience that develops over time and takes practice to master.
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/ 1 year agoHamas assault echoes 1973 Arab-Israeli war – a shock attack and questions of political, intelligence culpability
Failings leading up to the Arab-Israeli War of 50 years ago cost the then Israeli prime minister their job. Could history...
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/ 1 year agoThe Israel-Hamas war: No matter who loses, Iran wins
The Palestinian fighters who launched deadly attacks into Israel on Oct. 7 are not Iranian puppets – but they are doing...
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/ 1 year agoIranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, in prison for speaking up against human rights violations, has been a voice for women for almost two decades
Narges Mohammadi is the second Iranian woman, after Shirin Ebadi, to win the Nobel Peace Prize. She remains locked up in...
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/ 1 year agoBison are sacred to Native Americans − but each tribe has its own special relationship to them
Efforts are being made to develop the capacity of Native tribes to manage bison and bison habitats. An Indigenous scholar explains...
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/ 1 year agoWhy the UAW union’s tough bargaining strategy is working
The companies are making more generous offers, and the union is commanding support from the general public and the president of...
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/ 1 year agoThe pope’s new letter isn’t just an ‘exhortation’ on the environment – for Francis, everything is connected, which is a source of wonder
Integral ecology, a holistic way of looking at problems the world faces today, is key in the pope’s writings about the...
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/ 1 year ago20 years after the publication of ‘Purple Hibiscus,’ a generation of African writers have followed in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s footsteps
African immigrant writers possess particularly acute insights into the way race and racism affect daily life in the US.
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/ 1 year agoOften in error but still seductive: Why we can’t quit election polls
The unusual candidacy of former President Donald Trump has made election polling especially appealing, more than a year from the election....
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/ 1 year agoHealth on the ballot as Argentina poised to elect ‘anarcho-capitalist’ bent on slashing social protections
Argentinians will vote in a new president on Oct. 22, 2023. But the front-runner’s plans to slash health funding might find...
