NEW YORK — The science of fighting disease has never been stronger. We have the means to detect outbreaks immediately, sequence pathogens in the space of days, and develop new vaccines in just months.

Several state leaders, including Pennsylvania, have declared racism "a public health crisis." Many healthcare workers have said this for years and they say it's time those inequalities be addressed.

Social scientists have urged policy-makers and governments to rethink how income inequality is measured. In a new study published in Nature Human Behaviour, researchers from the University of Exeter ...

The message from William M. Rodgers III, vice president and director of the Institute for Economic Equity at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, was stark. “For a growing number of United States ...

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Using microdata from nationally representative household and labor force surveys, we study the impact and drivers of poverty and inequality in India during the pandemic. We have three main findings.

Plus: the US has accused Russia of meddling ahead of the Presidential election This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the ...

Early morning magenta light illuminates clouds and the Moulton Barn on Mormon Row at the foot of the Grand Tetons near Jackson, Wyoming. Teton County, home to the affluent and famous Jackson Hole, has ...

We can never let it seem normal, or appropriate, when governments ban teaching topics that are controversial, in literature or science. Most of us old enough remember being appalled at the censorship ...