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Why America’s Strategy For Reducing Racial Inequality Failed
Harvard professor Christina Cross debunks the myth of the two-parent Black family.
by Saima Sidik
The Nocebo Effect
If people expect to feel better from a pill or medical treatment, they just might, even if the pill is made of sugar or the treatment is a sham...
10 Downing Street's Gulag
In October 1952, the British governor of Kenya, Sir Evelyn Baring, declared a state of emergency. Mau Mau rebels were attacking and...
Rocks into Gas
Geologists have long believed that the world's supply of oil and natural gas came from the decay of primordial plant and animal matter, which...
Fertility and Destiny
Current low birthrates among highly educated women pose a challenge to the U.S. economy and may compound existing social problems, says David...
Cilia in C-Major
In the human ear, it takes only a few millionths of a second from the time a sound wave vibrates the receiving "hair cells" to the...
Toddling Consumers
For generations now, critics as well as poets have debated what relationship, if any, poetry has to rational thought. The majority view is that...
Oyster Environmentalists
Once so degraded that residents avoided touching the brackish water, the 106-acre Wilson Bay in Jacksonville on the North Carolina coast now...
Down and Out in Paris and Boston
Outgoing North Carolina senator John Edwards wasn't the first person to notice the Second America, which he described in a primary campaign...
Voting into Vapor
Fully electronic systems will record about one-third of the votes cast this November. But "Until and unless everyone understands...
Anti-social Societies
In the mid 1800s, Alexis de Tocqueville remarked on and celebrated the multitude of social organizations that dotted the American landscape. By...