
Racial profiling by ICE agents mirrors the targeting of Japanese Americans during World War II
A Japanese American family is taken to a relocation center in San Francisco in May 1942. Circa Images/GHI/Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesThe Department of Homeland Se...
Anna Storti, Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies and Asian American Studies, Duke University

Illness is more than just biological – medical sociology shows how social factors get under the skin and cause disease
Lack of access to safe and affordable housing is harmful to health.Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty ImagesHealth and medicine is more than just biological – societal forces can get un...
Jennifer Singh, Associate Professor of Sociology, Georgia Institute of Technology

Seeking honor is a double-edged sword – from ancient Greece to samurai Japan, thinkers have wrestled with whether it’s the way to virtue
Desire for validation from other people can lead people toward virtue – or in the other direction.Jacob Wackerhausen/iStock via Getty Images PlusPete Hegseth, the current defense secretary, has ...
Kenneth Andrew Andres Leonardo, Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Government, Hamilton College

The western US is in a snow drought, and storms have been making it worse
Skiers and snowboarders walk across dry ground to reach a slope at Bear Mountain ski resort on Dec. …

Grok produces sexualized photos of women and minors for users on X – a legal scholar explains why it…
Grok is making it easy for users to flood X with nonconsensual sexualized images.Anna Barclay/Getty …

Cuba’s leaders just lost an ally in Maduro − if starved of Venezuelan oil, they may also lose what r…
'After you, President Maduro?' A worrying phrase for Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel.Juan Barreto…

Congress takes up health care again − and impatient voters shouldn’t hold their breath for a cure…
Congress has long been unable to come to an agreement on how to help constituents pay for health car…
Risks young chimps take as they swing through the trees underscore role of protective parenting in h…
Infant chimpanzees are out of mom's reach the majority of the time they descend from the trees.Kevin…

Today Venezuela, tomorrow Iran: can the Islamic Republic survive a second Trump presidency?
Better days: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, left, met the supreme leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei…

Why 2026 could see the end of the Farm Bill era of American agriculture policy
Federal funding is a key support for programs that provide free food to needy families.Joseph Prezio…

