From “pauper” to “underclass,” the history of social classification reveals how language constructs a moral economy, determining who is worthy of support and who is marginalized. These terms reinforce ...

Amid violence and disorder in the Roman Republic, dodgy legal maneuvering made things worse. Cicero was far from blameless.

That term ‘society,’” the executive director told a local publication, “feels a bit insular and stuffy.” When British Prime ...

The Royal Society of Chemistry has agreed a new three-year Open Access publishing agreement with Couperin, a consortium of French Higher Education and Research establishments.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to Northwestern University political science professor Jeffrey Winters about what some have called the oligarchy shaping American politics and society.

Doretha Clemons, Ph.D., MBA, PMP, has been a corporate IT executive and professor for 34 years. She is an adjunct professor at Connecticut State Colleges & Universities, Maryville University, and ...

The transition to a coin-lite society will start once the BSP finally sees the impact of key interventions on the currency demand of Filipinos, specifically those policies meant to convince more ...

She is was a council member of the Australian and New Zealand Obesity Society (ANZOS ... having a larger body shouldn’t mean you’re diagnosed with “clinical obesity”.

The emergence of a polite, lying society might be due to a combination of technological change and sloppy government. Chart: The Economist For many years the British Social Attitudes Survey has ...

This Commission sought to define clinical obesity as a condition of illness that, akin to the notion of chronic disease in other medical specialties, directly results from the effect of excess ...

But what does it mean for a fire to be 0% contained—as is the case currently for the Eaton and Kenneth fires—or 6% contained like the Palisades fire, 10% contained like the Hurst fire ...

As mourners gather today to pay tribute to the late Jimmy Carter, an essay he wrote in The Bitter Southerner about the meaning of home in 2021 has resurfaced online. “Home is a complicated idea.