Margaret Atwood’s novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, described the horror of the authoritarian regime of Gilead. In this theocracy, self-preservation was the best people could hope for, being powerless to ...

Deacons go through the laying-on of hands ritual during an ordination Mass on April 25, 2021, in St. Peter's Basilica at The Vatican, during which the pope ordained nine priests for his diocese as ...

Since becoming president, Donald Trump has aggressively sought to fulfill his campaign promise to reverse the Biden administration’s protection of transgender Americans. Trump is not alone in ...

"In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity, without a sense of belonging." —Erik Erikson Social media has become a dominant force in ...

Provost Professor of Political Science and Director of the UMass Amherst Poll, UMass Amherst Jesse Rhodes has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the Demos Foundation, and the ...