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Dr. Dan-el Padilla Peralta, a former undocumented immigrant himself, argues that Trump’s acolytes need to take a look into their own ancestral mirror before passing judgement on America’s immigrants.

So far, the White House has promised to allow 10,000 Syrians into the country, but that’s a far cry from Turkey’s already 2 million.

Super Bowl season illustrates a deep part of who we are, not just as sports fans.

In Singapore, National Night is a night for baby-making. What happens when governments sponsor procreation?

Before Oprah or Martha Stewart, Berg built an empire around her name.

Fear of invasion is a recurring theme in Australian history.

Open borders would lead to a massive wave of immigration and probably the collapse of American constitutional democracy… though one economist says that’s not a bad thing.

Free riders choose to reap the rewards of a public good without paying their portion of the cost necessary to produce it.

A more nuanced picture of Justice Antonin Scalia’s 30-year stint on the nation’s highest court tells a tale that complicates the conservative-mouthpiece narrative.

Stereotypes have consequences, especially when they’re reinforced by loudmouths like Donald Trump.

Living longer, but worrying more. Why?

‘Tis the season for cartographic overindulgence.

The mental mechanics of how emotions and logic relate aren’t widely understood. Our minds are built to mostly be “indirectly rational.”

For years, health experts have raved about the regenerative benefits of antioxidants. Now there’s a big caveat.

Neither astronomers nor native Hawaiians are to blame, but it’s up to everyone to get it right moving forward. “The cause of Hawaiian independence is larger and dearer than the life […]

Most Americans want reasonable gun safety laws, and in a democracy, the majority is supposed to win. Why isn’t it working that way with gun control?

Let the French flag fly on Facebook. It flies for us all. It flies for life.

Language conveys a lot about who we are and how we perceive the world. In terms of human migration, we give out the label of expat or immigrant to foreign migrants, and each word has its own connotation.

Over 700 pilgrims were killed by a stampede en route to Mecca. Why do some choose to celebrate such tragedies? 

Department of Corrections is a misnomer. At the present, DOCs across the country shun from the responsibility to make convicts better people.

Twenty-one strangers with different values and views, thrown together on a Grand Canyon rafting trip, managed to set aside those differences and build community.

Who will care for you in old age? Given dramatically lower fertility rates and population aging, combined with the high cost of caregiving, the future of eldercare and senior housing may be in for a big change. Can you imagine a future where robots provide care to older adults? Whether you think it cool, or creepy, the future may begin on July 17th when the Henn-na Hotel in Japan opens with a mostly robotic staff — is senior housing next?

American Impressionism’s often been seen as a pale copy of the French Impressionism that flowered in the late 19th century. Although American Impressionists early on copied their French counterparts (and even made pilgrimages to Monet’s Giverny garden and home), the exhibition The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, 1887–1920, at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts through May 24, 2015, proves that American Impressionism quickly blossomed into something distinct—and distinctly American—by the turn of the 20th century. Capturing aesthetically a moment of contradictions as American nativism threatened to close borders while women’s suffrage struggled to open doors, The Artist’s Garden demonstrates the power of flowers to speak volumes about the American past, and present.

The trouble with productivity as a value is that it treats a morally ambiguous act as a moral good. What, specifically, do we want to be producing more of?

Cinco de Mayo is not, as many Americans assume, Mexico’s Independence Day. It’s not even an important holiday south of the border. Instead, its modern roots can be traced to Mexican-Americans in the 1960s and the opportunism of wily beer distributors.

Artists aren’t easy people to be around sometimes. Genius and jerk often walk hand in hand. They may suffer for their art, but those who support them often become collateral damage in the quest for immortality. Making a biopic of any artist and balancing the good with the bad seems an almost impossible task. Making a biopic of Pablo Picasso, a classic case study of the genius-as-jerk, that praises the painting while honestly assessing the collateral damage to women has never satisfactorily been filmed.  But where cinema fails, maybe the cinematic graphic novel can succeed.  The graphic novel Pablo, written by Julie Birmant and illustrated by Clément Oubrerie, is the best “film” ever made about one of the founding fathers of modern art — a portrait of intertwined genius and jerk that never loses sight of either side.

When the Whitney Museum of American Art decided to stage in 1948 their first exhibition of a living American artist, they chose someone who wasn’t even an American citizen, but only legally could become one just before his death. Painter Yasuo Kuniyoshi came to America as a teenager and immersed himself in American culture and art while rising to the top of his profession, all while facing discrimination based on his Japanese heritage.  The exhibition The Artistic Journey of Yasuo Kuniyoshi, which runs through August 30, 2015 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, unveils an amazing story of an artist who lived between two worlds — East and West — while bridging them in his art that not only synthesized different traditions, but also mirrored the joys and cruelties of them.

Predictions that the global population would level off later this century may prove false, reviving a debate about how to grow national economies while protecting environmental resources.

Music may help build the great divide among culturally diverse children, according to a recent study. Researchers have brought hope to schools–a published study that shows playing music together may help integrate elementary-age migrant children into mainstream society

For Chinese restaurants Christmas is their Superbowl Sunday. But how did Chinese food become a staple of the holidays for some?