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China's “one-child” policy has been relaxed, and now married couples may have two children. But according to scholars, the damage is already done.

Minority students in racially isolated schools have drastically less access to critical educational resources.

There’s always been some fuzziness in our distinctions between medicine and recreational drugs. Just look at nitrous oxide.

Well-researched stories from Scroll.in, the Washington Post, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

The Faroe Islands owe their untouched nature to their remote location and stormy climate. And to a weekend closure.

We like to think that physical evidence is a foolproof way to lock in a conviction. The problem is that forensic science isn't exactly a science.

In the 1930s, experimental psychologist Agnes Landis interviewed women who identified as "tomboys."

Jessica Lynch was the first woman American POW to be successfully rescued. She became symbolic in ways that had little to do with the facts of her story.