April is Alcohol Awareness Month, which feels a bit ironic, doesn’t it? Raising awareness of alcohol? We all know it's there. Instead, we should be raising awareness of alcohol normalization and the ...

This is the second of a three-part series on The Rise of a Culture of Censorship. The first post was on censorship by authorities, including the government. Censorship involves shutting people up and ...

One strong definition of culture comes from Unesco, which defines it as “the set of distinctive spiritual, material, ...

“‘Nam mô A Di Đà Phật’” (Homage to Amitabha Buddha) is a greeting you hear at Chua Huong Lam temple in Pearland, a suburb of Houston. A dozen Buddha statues and a large figure of Quan Am Tathagata, ...

While we lament the lack of cooperation in Western culture that allows a virus to spread, we can simultaneously celebrate the entrepreneurial spirit that allows a cure to be discovered. Throughout the ...

Part 3 of the TED Radio Hour episode The hidden forces shaping your choices. Social norms vary dramatically from one culture to another — but why? Psychologist Michele Gelfand unpacks why societies ...

Lucy Getschow knew if she didn’t get help soon, she would end up dead. Drugs and alcohol had taken over her life. She had quit soccer. Stopped trying in school. She realized she was at her breaking ...

The federal and state governments have been warned that Nigeria’s efforts to promote primary healthcare (PHC) remain at a delicate crossroads, caught between the country’s cultural norms on self-care ...

On a recent fall morning, students filed into a classroom at Sun Yat-sen University, whose leafy main campus hugs the banks of the south-winding Pearl River. They thumbed last-minute text messages, ...

From Thursday's N.Y. appellate decision in Cohen v. Cohen: We agree with the father that, by directing him to comply with the "cultural norms" of Hasidic Judaism [which were practiced by the parties ...