For thousands of years, it’s been wallowed in and slathered on for both medicine and beauty. Science says it works.
College basketball players are on average worth $212,080 to their program—much more than the cost of their scholarships.
Infertility affects Black women twice as much as other women—and they’re less likely to seek assistance.
When governments take care of us, we take care of each other. And the U.S. is struggling.
These early Native traditions spur physical well-being.
Climate change is already damaging Indigenous ways of life. But tribes are adapting.
A youth program in Orlando, Florida, wants to decrease high school dropouts, juvenile arrests, and teen births. And it’s working.
Planned Parenthood has partnered with the entertainment industry to combat misrepresentations of women’s reproductive health.
The worst consequence of raising the curtain with that date is that it casually normalizes White Christian Europeans as historical constants.
From bathrooms to battlefields, a fact-based look at the law and gender identity.
An artist’s journey into her family’s Whiteness.
Be My Eyes, ArtLifting, and Crisis Text Line remove barriers for the visually impaired, the unhoused, and people in need of counseling.
Xwi7xwa library in British Columbia is working to decolonize the way libraries organize information.
Oregon passed a statewide cap on annual rent increases, and now other states are paying close attention.
The Sexy Sex Ed initiative helps rural young people feel more comfortable discussing their bodies, sex, and reproductive health to empower them to advocate for themselves.
These authors pull no punches in tackling head-on the topics of race, gender, and justice.
Raising the profile of Black birders could help foster a healthy connection between Black communities and the natural world.
It only took a few months for a young environmental scientist from the Bahamas to create a youth movement to ban single-use plastics in her country.
As entire islands disappear in Chesapeake Bay, the oyster is enlisted as a first line of climate defense.
Research shows that small talk and casual connections create happy communities and less-lonely individuals.
The court’s gone conservative. But there’s pretty clear evidence that public pressure can make a difference.
J. J. Mulligan Sepúlveda recalls how his mother’s experience of Pinochet’s Chile influenced his political awakening.
The recent college cheating scandal surprises no one. The superrich have long relied on “legacy admissions” to get them into their elite college of choice.
A coding school that grew out of the 2015 refugee crisis in Germany is helping women and people of color prepare for jobs in technology.
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