Photographer Lewis Wickes Hine showed us more than a century ago how to help create positive social change through a humanist approach, Rebecca Lux Soc writes.

A troubling campaign from a billionaire’s political group pays professors to parrot political talking points and to use their students as promotional tools, James Cook writes.

A recent controversy over a problematic Pepsi commercial shows that we need to engage in meaningful, sometimes necessarily uncomfortable, conversations on racial power, privilege, and appropriation, Elizabeth Powers writes.

While the term “alternative fact” has quickly become synonymous in political discussion with a lie or falsehood, a wider view of the debate reveals there aren’t always simple answers in serious conversations, James Cook writes.

Balancing civic engagement and parenting raises the question of how we should approach children’s engagement in political events, and how we should consider their perspective, safety, comfort and understanding, Elizabeth Powers writes.