An estimated 40 million people are enslaved around the world. Raising awareness will help people move from victims to survivors.

It’s easy to blame obesity, diabetes, and other conditions on people’s poor diets. But the real culprit is multinational corporations that profit from limiting our food choices.

The shifting status of cultural symbols reveals a lot about who we are and what we value.

A story of three deaths in Haiti has a lesson to teach the U.S.

Iconic children’s books and popular media that Gen Xers grew up with are riddled with damaging Native stereotypes—but things may finally be shifting.

You can’t characterize human psychology and behavior if studies overlook 85 percent of people on Earth.

When an anthropologist’s baby was diagnosed with Down syndrome, he was overwhelmed by emotional upheaval. Then, everything changed.

Once upon a time, the most important classroom warnings prepared students for potentially upsetting or traumatic content. Now they’re about bullets.

The way officials measure a person’s vulnerability could undercut the long-term success of refugees.

The experiences of tight-knit neighborhoods in Mozambique suggest that strict belt-tightening often frays a nation’s social fabric.