Ethiopian culture has traditionally valued community—the concept of living together. But normalized self-interest transforms society from a community into a collection of competitors. The elderly ...

From listeria outbreaks to aviation incidents and accidents, safety failures are unfortunately prevalent in our world. The paradox of safety failures is that, when you compare them to each other, they ...

PEN America's report found 6,870 instances of book bans in 2024 and 2025. Books bans in public schools have become a "new normal" in the U.S., escalating since 2021, according to one advocacy group.

Peter Matthews talks with Battalion Chief Grant Tinker about the normalization of deviance, often mistaken for complacency, and how deeper in the fire service and carries serious consequences. In this ...

Learn how Deviance Amplification Theory explains the process by which societal reactions can escalate and reinforce deviant behavior. This clear and concise criminology explainer breaks down the key ...

The surge in political violence during the Trump years has imperiled not only American lives but also our country’s collective memory. The details of a new atrocity overwrite the old. Even the names ...

As the Trump administration continues to widen its engagement with Iran, Washington has yet to grasp a stark reality: An Israeli-Saudi peace deal is almost certainly beyond reach in the foreseeable ...

The year 2024 was a whopper for fire service legal issues. Some legal challenges have changed, but many remain the same, plaguing fire chiefs, administrators, and firefighters who commit the time and ...

Brad Harris does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

AI training and inference are all about running data through models — typically to make some kind of decision. But the paths that the calculations take aren’t always straightforward, and as a model ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to cement his legacy in the Middle East were well underway even before he reclaimed the White House. “There’s just no way that President Trump isn’t going to be ...