The voters one scholar studied didn't necessarily think they would benefit materially from being on the winning side. But turnout was over 90 percent.

A wave of academic periodicals devoted to theory started appearing in the 1970s. Criticism wasn't far behind.

The Brazilian educator Paulo Freire’s book, first published in English 50 years ago, urges viewing students as interlocutors or partners in the learning process.

Widespread market failure and unemployment triggered by the coronavirus pandemic have set off a crisis of domestic migration in India.

Mulligatawny soup started as a simple South Indian broth but was changed to appeal to British palates.

On the eve of its 6th polio-free anniversary, India immunizes over 170 million children, despite a lack of roads, reinfection threats, and a periodic mistrust of vaccines.

J.R.R. Tolkien’s seminal scholarship on Beowulf centers a white male gaze. Toni Morrison focused on Grendel and his mother as raced and marginal figures.

Can empirical data about human behavior make the “soft” sciences more like the “hard” ones? New interdisciplinary fields are voting yes.

Eighty-seven-year-old Narayan Lavate, and his wife, Iravati, 78, say they are “leading unproductive and obsolete lives.”

In Japan, elderly people are committing crimes just so they can go to jail and feel cared for. A similar situation has played out in India, where the elderly have been left out of traditional social support networks.