The miracle drugs helping America fight obesity can have a dangerous downside: triggering disordered eating. Even a chatbot trained on nutrition and fitness research that dispenses reasonable-sounding ...

Societies survive and grow when they successfully navigate their contradictions. Eventually, however, accumulating contradictions overwhelm existing means of navigating them. Then social problems ...

We see it every day—people across the globe are more polarized than ever. We're increasingly divided on important social issues, from climate change and the economy to racial justice and gender ...

As American society has grown more divided, that rift has seeped into corporate culture. Businesses today are scrutinized for their political positions as much as for their goods and services. This ...

Business leaders have a new mandate: focus on core audiences and the issues that matter most to their companies, and help to solve social problems. Daryl Brewster, CEO of Chief Executives For ...

Two women hug during a remembrance ceremony outside of City Hall on Tuesday, July 4, 2023, in Highland Park, Ill. Taking a tough-on-crime stance, whether on the campaign trail or filing legislation, ...

As Brazilian author Paulo Coelho writes, “You drown not by falling into a river but by staying submerged in it.” This is an apt metaphor for how trauma impacts people, individually and collectively.

When Carrie Diaz Eaton trained as a mathematician, they didn’t expect their career to involve social-justice research. Growing up in Providence, Rhode Island, Diaz Eaton first saw social justice in ...

The UK government has launched a consultation on introducing an Australian-style ban on social media for under-16s. The proposal is framed as a bold response to rising concerns about young people’s ...