1."Health insurance companies are acquiring one another at an ALARMING rate. We’re going single payer, but not in the way we’d want and without any of the conversations that should be happening." ...

The history of literacy in Bangladesh suggests a confusion about what literacy skills mean and how these are taught.

The Ministry of Education has launched the project "Intervention Mechanism for Functional Literacy in Pre-university Education (MIAF)", co-financed by the Education and Employment Program 2021-2027.

After the rebranding of the Department of Defense as the “Department of War”, Donald Trump has once again used an AI-generated image of himself to seemingly threaten "war" on the city of Chicago. The ...

Global illiteracy rates have increased by an average of 2.2% in 2024 and 2025, with 773 million people worldwide unable to read at all, according to a new report released by the World Literacy ...

PepsiCo is venturing into the functional drinks space. Its recently announced prebiotic cola is PepsiCo’s entry into the currently flourishing market, which has a predicted CAGR of 8.9% from 2025 to ...

Functional and integrative medicine are closely related. Both approaches take a broad view of the factors that can affect a person’s health and focus on addressing them in treatment. The terms ...

Integrative medicine blends conventional and complementary care, while functional medicine seeks to identify root causes of symptoms first and restore the function of the different body systems. When ...

The functional beverage sector is booming. From smoothies to hot chocolates, there is no beverage the functionality trend hasn’t touched. And if proof were needed, then we need look no further than ...

Re “Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good,” by Mary Harrington (Opinion guest essay, Aug. 3): Blaming smartphones for rising illiteracy ignores the deeper political and economic forces that are gutting ...

Liz Aronson with books on Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025, at the Miami-Dade Doral Branch Library in Doral, Fla. Aronson is doing community service with the World Literacy Foundation this summer. Alie ...