Politics & Society

Gossip influences if people receive advantages whether they work in an office in the United States or in India — or even in a remote village in Africa, a WSU study found.

Dean Baquet, an eminent reporter and editor, received the Murrow Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Journalism on Tuesday during the annual Murrow Symposium in Pullman.

Huerta, 92, co-founded the United Farmworkers Union with César Chávez in 1962. The Presidential Medal of Freedom winner will speak at WSU Pullman from 4–5 p.m. on April 3.

Most people who ranked high in “joy of missing out” or JOMO also reported high levels of social anxiety in a recent WSU-led study.

The online selections will help library patrons explore Black history during February and all year round.

The Black college students interviewed by Betty Wilson racially identified with unarmed Black victims of police killings. In them, they saw their relatives, their friends — and themselves.

The grant will help WSU’s Grays Harbor County Extension advance its mission of bringing digital resources directly to rural and tribal communities.

Gilmore, associate dean for WSU College of Education, discusses what Black History Month means to him and how he’d like to see Black history taught in the United States.

In the early pandemic, conspiracy theories that were shared the most on Twitter highlighted malicious purposes and secretive actions of supposed bad actors behind the crisis, according to an analysis of nearly 400,000 posts.

Young people classified as bisexual are more likely to use cannabis to cope with mental health issues and for what researchers call experiential “enhancement,” a WSU‑led study found.