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 ...

From lynchings and social boycotts to a historic caste census decision, 2025 showed that caste continues to shape violence, ...

New Study examines the prevalence of caste-based discrimination in India, why mainstream psychology often fails to capture ...

Shivraj Singh Yadav, a leader of Samajwadi Party and a close aide of party chief Akhilesh Yadav, sparked a huge controversy ...

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 ...

Caste is an ancient system of social hierarchy based on one’s birth that is tied to concepts of purity and social status. Its history, evolution, and current state are complicated. A move to outlaw ...

In the United States, inequality tends to be framed as an issue of either class, race or both. Consider, for example, criticism that Republicans’ new tax plan is a weapon of “class warfare,” or ...

The California State University system last week updated its nondiscrimination policy to include caste, making it the first university system in the country to enact such a policy, the Los Angeles ...

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