
Reading for pleasure builds empathy in children, but fewer kids are picking up books just for the fun of it
As schools focus more on evidence-based reading instruction, less time is available for children to practice reading for pleasure.
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As schools focus more on evidence-based reading instruction, less time is available for children to practice reading for pleasure.

When companies are hit by activists, managers of competitors may fear that their company’s reputation would suffer if their turn comes next.

How will Democrats in Congress deal with the DSA-affiliated candidates likely to join their ranks in the new year? There are lessons from the tea party’s challenge to traditional GOP values.

Philadelphia police revoked the carry licenses of five members of the Black Lion Party for International Solidarity, citing ‘good cause.’ Is that constitutional?

The boundaries of heterosexuality are bending for women but not for men, who appear to have less room to explore and are bound to a more rigid, traditional concept of masculinity.

Until now, there has been little evidence of how young people in middle- and low-income countries use and feel about AI.

Some families turn to home education only when they feel they have no other option.

Unlike lithium-ion batteries, flow batteries can’t catch fire (as they are mostly water) and are extremely durable.

An oncologist answers the key questions about the new sitting-and-cancer study, and what its findings do and don’t show.

AI’s dynamic of distant, unseen control recalls Shakespeare’s The Tempest.

The question now is whether Russia’s economic difficulties will lead to mass protests and a split among the elites as happened in late Soviet times.

Today, plate tectonics carry water into Earth’s depths. But this deep water cycle goes back much further.