public policy

Quarantines are worth the trouble to keep the next pandemic at bay but they need to be applied intelligently.

Recent research shows that suicidal behavior is a social contagion that spreads through families and classrooms. The good news? So does suicide prevention.

Religion influences politics more now than it did 50 years ago. Are we going forward or backward?

Life is a temporary, cosmic accident and the universe may very well be meaningless. That’s depressing — or is it?