With the coronavirus spreading to more countries, public health officials in the US are warning Americans that coronavirus will become a problem in the US, too. What does this mean for you?

Women with less income and less education may be hurt most by gender discrimination.

Native Brazilians are among the Amazon's most effective defenders against logging and mining, because they're fighting not just for the environment but for their people's very survival.

When the holes – also called ‘eyes’ – don’t appear in a batch, cheesemakers say the cheese is 'blind.'

NASA scientist Katherine Johnson was instrumental in getting people to the moon. Here are some of the lessons one mathematics professor believes she taught us all.

A psychologist explains how to reestablish civil political conversation in your own life.

Bernie Sanders is a Democratic Socialist, a potential problem for the presidential candidate. A Cold War campaign to link American-ness and capitalism helped create popular distrust of socialism.

This pillar of the American safety net originated as a solution to the paradox of hunger in the midst of plenty.

For more than two centuries, one particular epithet has resonated through US politics – and even helped inspire the unofficial mascot of a major political party.

A reenactment of the largest slave rebellion in US history involves a plot twist. A scholar who studies race, history and memory says the new ending can spark new beginnings.

During a recent visit to India, Trump spoke at the world's largest cricket stadium. Cricket came to India in the 18th century through British sailors and is a revered cultural institution in India.

As National Eating Disorders Awareness Week is observed Feb. 24-March 1, here are some things to consider.

Largely self-taught, Adams learned to harness the communicative power of photography during his years as a marketing photographer.

Films of the battle for Iwo Jima, being digitized 75 years after they were made, offer connections and lessons for Americans of today.