Today, however, this type of nuclear family seems to be undergoing a metamorphosis. As the number of children declines and the number of mothers with small children who go out to work grows rapidly, the separate economic preoccupations of …

When Russian troops invaded Ukraine in the early hours of February 24, Germany woke up to an unpleasant reality: Russia is its top energy supplier, providing more than half of its natural gas and coal supplies and a third of its crude oil.…

The pleasures of childhood should in the main be such as the child extracts from his environment by means of some effort and inventiveness. Pleasures which are exciting and at the same time involve no physical exertion, such, for example, …

The capacity to endure a more or less monotonous life is one which should be acquired in childhood. Modern parents are greatly to blame in this respect; they provide their children with far too many passive amusements, such as shows and go…

If the pandemic unfolded in stages so too must it be contained that way. During the campaign, Biden promised swift action on such steps as testing, vaccine manufacture and distribution, and preventive measures like mask mandates. That, he’…

Every pandemic starts as a squall—a localized disturbance in a single city or town, causing all manner of problems there, but sparing the larger world outside. Squalls become storms, however, and storms become tempests and before long the …

It’s all too easy to become numb to the toll and accept these daily figures as a new normal while waiting for the vaccine rollout to have an impact. Since the first vaccines were approved in Dec. 2020, we seem to have stopped talking about…

On Jan. 7, 2021, the U.S. hit another grim milestone, for the first time recording over 300,000 new cases of COVID-19 and over 4,000 deaths from the infection in one day. Across the country, hospitals and intensive care units are now under…

Japanese teachers placed importance on "student effort," while non-Japanese focused more on "communication." The greatest divergence was seen in how teachers elicit answers from students. While non-Japanese tend to choose students who rais…

Like other animals, man also reacts badly to overcrowding. Although in advanced civilization, the packing together of people in cities does not necessarily lead to a shortage of food, there may be detected some traces of the aggressiveness…