More people are in prison in America than anywhere else in the world, driven in part by laws with heavy sentences for non-violent drug charges.

An essay -- "Why I No Longer Eat Watermelon, or How a Racist Email Caused Me to Leave Graduate School" -- starts by describing that incident, from 2011.

As climate change puts ecosystems and species at risk, conservationists are turning to a new approach ...

Shelley Friedman, 21, who recently started a two-year program at Brooklyn Law School, is not too concerned about how she will fare in the job market after she earns her degree ...

Jessica Zhang, a 21-year-old Chinese student from Jiangsu Province, says her English wasn't strong enough to fill in her U.S. college admission form.

A team of researchers has unexpectedly discovered four extinct underwater volcanoes off the coast of Sydney in Australia.

More than one in five businesses have had to provide remedial support to bring graduates’ basic skills up to an acceptable level in the last year, a study says.

As I noted last year, solar pricing has dropped dramatically.

An innovative partnership between Bangor Savings Bank and the University of New England was announced in Portland on Thursday.

Bethel College, in Indiana, last month adopted a new policy on the creation of the Earth and humanity ...