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The fresh slate of the new year offers an opportunity to re-think goals and set new habits. But to ensure success with those goals, people need to think carefully about timing and what they really […]

The United States is rich in diversity but is facing continual racial disparity and growing political division—challenges which should be addressed right from the early years, according to academics.This post was originally published on this […]

When states give driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants, it affects nondrivers, too—even the littlest ones. Babies born to immigrants from Mexico and Central America are bigger and healthier in states that make that change, our […]

When a celebrity dies, there is often an outpouring of grief from their fans. This sense of grief can often be even stronger when the person dies young. In October 2024, there was an outpouring […]

Language does much more than just convey information. It expresses emotions, establishes social connections, and even challenges norms.This post was originally published on this site

The past year has been the deadliest for journalists since the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) began tracking fatalities in 1992. Since 7 October 2023, at least 146 journalists have been killed in Gaza, the […]

How unions and the military frame the role of immigrants within their institutions and help influence attitudes in U.S. society is the focus of new collaborative research by Shannon Gleeson, the Edmund Ezra Day Professor […]

The Australian government recently passed legislation that bans social media for anyone under 16. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese hailed the legislation for putting “the onus on social media platforms—not young people or their parents”—for protecting […]

More than 2.1 million Canadians today work in temporary, part-time or otherwise unstable jobs. For these workers, the ideal of a “standard employment relationship”—the predominant model for employment for decades in the second half of […]

The list of organizations abandoning the option of fully remote work for employees has grown recently, with the likes of Amazon, IBM, JPMorgan and Meta leading the charge back to the office.This post was originally […]