Trigger warnings are meant to help people emotionally prepare for or avoid potentially upsetting material. But new evidence from a week-long study of young adults suggests they often do neither.

The issue of their usage, however, is by no means cut and dry. If anything, the messy and polarizing debate over the appropriateness of trigger warnings has become a key theater in the Kulturkampf of ...

The gift of life is something we often take for granted. The fragility of life and freedom is often overlooked along with "the thinking we do when we don’t think about the thinking we do." And yet, ...