Vouchers ease start-up stress for churches seeing demand for more Christian schools
The state has an expansive voucher program in which taxpayers help to pay tuition for all families who want to send their ...
Tourists can finally visit the Oval Office. A replica is opening near the White House on Monday
WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington is getting a new tourist stop that offers visitors the next best thing to being in the Oval ...
Nepal’s revamped truth commissions will need to go beyond ‘ritualism’ to deliver justice to civil war victims
The two main bodies involved — the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and the Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons — were created by Nepal’s government in 2015 to deal ...
Wind phones help the bereaved deal with death, loss and grief − a clinical social worker explains the vital role of the old-fashioned rotary phone
People use the wind phone to “call” and have a one-way conversation with deceased loved ones. Here they can say the things left unsaid. Wind phones offer a setting for the person to tell the story of ...
Half of Black gay men will be diagnosed with HIV, despite highly effective preventive treatments − why?
Black gay and bisexual men made up about 38% of the estimated 37,981 new HIV diagnoses in the U.S. in 2022. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that approximately 50% of these men ...
College can be confusing for first-generation students – but it doesn’t have to be
That’s right. On average, early adulthood is more secure — in terms of career, family, health and a host of other outcomes — for college graduates. What we often miss, though, is the insecurity that ...
Gentrification isn’t inevitable − it can hinge on how residents view their neighborhood
Common understandings of gentrification and urban development often frame these urban processes as natural, linear and even inevitable for low-income neighborhoods. The argument goes that once you see ...
Self-forgiveness is more than self-comfort − a philosopher explains
Rather, as philosopher Robin Dillon pointed out, self-forgiveness suggests that someone is no longer being consumed or overwhelmed by those negative feelings. In short, it is possible to forgive ...
Trump and Harris vocabularies signal their different frames of mind
Harris had nine “future” statements, all of which were about what she intends to do. For example, she said, “And when I am president, we will do that for all people, understanding that the value I ...
Arundhati Roy's first memoir, 'Mother Mary Comes to Me,' to be published in September 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy's first memoir is coming out next fall, a book inspired by the death of her ...
Hezbollah azota el norte de Israel con 140 cohetes; no se reportan heridos
JERUSALÉN (AP) — Hezbollah azotó el norte de Israel con 140 cohetes el viernes, un día después de que el dirigente del grupo ...
Max Verstappen punished for swearing in F1 news conference
SINGAPORE (AP) — Formula 1 champion Max Verstappen was punished Friday for swearing in a news conference in which he argued ...