For millions across India, a rigid caste system thousands of years old still dictates much of daily life – from social circles to dating pools to job opportunities and schooling. The Indian government ...

A new report produced by the apex court on the evolution of jurisprudence on caste shows that even within a rule-based ...

Twice-impeached former president Donald Trump apparently thinks that the U.S. government should be a caste system, rather than a democracy — but that doesn’t mean he can explain how a caste system ...

The caste system is a system in India which depicts the order of power that each person would have. Read more to find out the current state of the caste system in India. Photo by Artem ...

Five years ago, at a playdate with one of my oldest girlfriends and our babies, I asked her about her experience with using a surrogate in India. We’re both Indian-Canadian living in Toronto, and I ...

In a virtual talk Tuesday, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson outlined the caste system of the United States, tracing the history of the form of social hierarchy from the nation's infancy ...

Civic behaviour is shaped by a society conditioned to outsourcing the labour of cleaning to lower castes and women.

Polamma carefully descends the 250 steps from the hilltop slum where she lives in southern India to walk one kilometer to the nearest grocery store. She is nine months pregnant and has four children ...

When the insurrection on Capitol Hill was over, midlife Black men in navy blue custodial uniforms cleaned up the mess. The viral video of the janitors sweeping debris from the hallway was as telling ...

New York Times columnist David Brooks and Kimberly Atkins Stohr of the Boston Globe join William Brangham to discuss the year ...