Welcome to Up for Debate. Each week, Conor Friedersdorf rounds up timely conversations and solicits reader responses to one thought-provoking question. Later, he publishes some thoughtful replies.
A recent study published in the journal Psychophysiology provides evidence that the human brain processes taboo words in a ...
Taboos are actions or customs that are prohibited or restricted to people, and they could be peculiar to certain people, certain genders, or everyone. The taboos are mostly derived from myths or ...
When I was a kid, my parents briefly moved the family to a conservative border town just off the Navajo reservation in northeastern Arizona so my dad could work in a lumber mill. My childhood memories ...
One in five pregnant women in Ethiopia are deliberating staying under nourished for fear of fetal deformities and giving birth to big babies, public health researchers say. Many pregnant mothers in ...