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Americans have fewer people to confide in than they did just a generation ago.

A noted demographer says that the nation's official measure of poverty is biased, flawed, and inconsistent with almost every other gauge of well-being.

There's been a huge spike in media coverage of corruption in east-central Europe--no big surprise to one political scientist, who finds a close connection to the region's EU aspirations.

For true prestige on campus, nothing beats landing an op-ed piece in a major paper.

In search of a secular foundation for human rights.

According to one sociologist, countries that have abandoned religion by choice are among the most stable, peaceful, free, wealthy, and healthy.

A Princeton music theorist has developed a new model that reveals the geometric spaces between musical notes.

Splogs--bogus blog websites containing gibberish and advertisements--are sand in the machine of the Internet, warns a science journalist, and could cripple the online world.

The information economy may render good old-fashioned craftsmanship a thing of the past.

The modest city of Columbus, Indiana, boasts more than 60 architecturally significant buildings by many Modernist stars. They haven't cured the city's financial woes.

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