Wealthier students tend to score higher on the SAT than other groups of students, raising questions about how accurate of a barometer the test actually is.
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It’s fairly common for managers to intervene to help sales staff, but they have to balance competing duties.
Players have been injured by lightning during games, and a strike to the stands could hurt a lot of fans.
Keeping aging coal plants open, building new gas plants and choices about pollution controls affect electricity bills. Pollution adds health costs and climate damage that may not appear on those bills.
No other U.S. president has come close to wiping away the amount in fines and restitution owed to victims that Trump has.
There are no guarantees that pollsters’ troubles in recent elections and popular skepticism about their dependability will be alleviated anytime soon.
Nicotine products like pouches and patches are being promoted for cognitive enhancement, stress reduction, improved athletic performance and much more – with little scientific evidence.
When President Trump barred three news organizations from the White House, a lawsuit followed. In it, the news outlets invoked their Fifth and First amendments rights.
Chinese and American leaders meet amid growing urgency over the issue of AI regulation.
Creating a quieter environment can improve your health – but you have to know what you’re listening for.
Aging levees and dams are only the beginning of the risks communities face. One of the biggest challenges is helping people manage the heat and storms.
Whether work gets done on-site, remotely or using a hybrid of the two can have a lot to do with an employer’s organizational culture.
Smartwatch users should be wary of relying too heavily on these devices’ algorithmic measurements.
AI can function as a charismatic figure without standing on a stage, establishing a church or gathering disciples, writes a scholar of religion.
Philadelphia has more fatal traffic accidents than other big US cities, and they’re concentrated in poor neighborhoods.
For American conservatives of the Cold War era, red was the color of communists and the mistrusted American left. Now, it’s the color of the GOP, while Democrats are blue. How did this happen?
The United States came out of the Revolutionary War victorious. But building a new nation was very different from fighting a war.
The show presented itself as a crusade to protect children. But its appeal may have had as much to do with the pleasures of being able to play judge, jury and executioner from your living room couch.
For Annie Dillard, the sonic intensity of poetry was critical to every form of writing she published throughout her life.
Flushing drugs or throwing them in the trash can have unintended consequences.
At least 119 countries have asked for aid from the fund set by major greenhouse gas emitting nations four years before the deadly Nepal flood. It has paid zero claims.
A central theme of the High Holidays – and Judaism itself – is that to do right by God, people must first do right by each other.
A political philosopher explains the ethical arguments in favor of free movement.
Half of the officers who have been fired or blocked from promotion are women or Black. A scholar who studies the US military explains why that’s dangerous.
Detroit had 20,370 eviction cases filed in 2025. But evictions that do not go through the formal court process are not included in the city’s official eviction data.