More women pause before rushing into marriage. Historically, the institution represented women's only path for financial security, but social and economic pressures have subsided in advanced economies. Research studies along with cultural and demographic trends support decisions to delay...
Singular happiness: Single American women enjoy an evening out, while one in seven Japanese women remain single
NEW YORK: Evidence concerning the state of marriage strongly suggests that women should give serious thought before making the momentous...
Between 1975 and 1979, the Khmer Rouge regime terrorized Cambodians and killed about 2 million people and displaced millions more in an attempt to restore an agrarian society, as explained by the Cambodia Tribunal Monitor. Scott Neuman, writing for NPR, explains how the Khmer Rouge came to power...
A whistleblower has exposed how Cambridge Analytica, a data analysis firm, relied on a software program and Facebook user profiles to target voters with political advertisements. The number represents about a quarter of the US electorate. “Documents seen by the Observer, and confirmed by a Facebook...
The curious with internet access are no longer limited to ideas fed to them within the constraints of communities or jobs with universities increasingly open free online classes to global audiences. Hundreds of thousands of students follow lectures not for a degree or credential, but for a love of...
A Kolkata girl, Dipanjana, gets up early in the morning to pick fruits of globalisation. Of course, that is not what she tells herself but this is exactly what she does.
She finishes breakfast quickly so that she can follow an online course before...
Societies are putting perpetrators of sexual misconduct on notice that such behavior is no longer tolerated. More victims file police reports and more prosecutors pursue rigorous investigations. The #MeToo movement targeting unwanted sexual behavior emerged in the United States in 2017 and spread...
Transatlantic protests: Irish MP Ruth Coppinger protests victim-blaming and Stanford graduates denounce rape culture
NEW HAVEN: Students are protesting the Trump administration’s proposed rollback of Title IX, the landmark federal legislation that...
Health officials and the public have long assumed that normal body temperature was a narrow range around 37 degrees Celsius, or 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. In 1851, a German doctor tested 15,000 patients and determined the average. New studies reviewed historical data and suggest that temperatures...
The United States may have declared victory in the Cold War after the Soviet Union’s fall, but Russia's President Vladimir Putin, a former KGB officer, did not give up trying to disrupt democracies. Russia has invested in waging a propaganda war with “data hacking, denial-of-service attacks,...
Real show and fake news: US President Donald Trump gained name recognition on his reality show, The Apprentice; Russian President Vladimir Putin organized a spread of disinformation during the 2016 US election
WASHINGTON: The Cold War is back. And...
