WASHINGTON -- An obituary of the anti-busing rabble-rouser Louise Day Hicks has sat in my in-basket for weeks. I stumbled upon it while researching the Boston school-busing crisis of the 1960s and ...

This story, as told by Heidi Anthony, is part of an oral history series. I started working at Miami International Airport in 1988. My mind was young and impressionable and clueless. I was a public ...

When Marvel Comics needed a writer for its character Riri Williams (the “new Iron Man”), a suggestion came promptly—via Twitter, of course: “@eveewing 100%,” suggested one user. The next day, a Change ...

Carol Miller is willing to go to great lengths to help her provide better lessons to her sociology students. In fact, 5,000 miles isn’t out of the question. In early August, Miller and her husband, ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

In 1893, eminent sociologist Emile Durkheim strove to address the question “What holds society together?” Ultimately, he described modern, complex society as being held together by “organic solidarity ...

LUCKNOW: The triple talaq law, proposed by the central government, has found its way into Lucknow University (LU) curriculum. It will be taught in LU’s sociology department at the postgraduate level ...

Is it possible to protect today’s teens from the evils of the world? Are high schools adequately preparing them for adulthood ...