My first unpleasant encounter with the current meaning of the word "problematic" occurred a couple of years ago. I was mingling with some twenty- and thirty-somethings at an outdoor birthday party in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Tropic Thunder" director/actor Ben Stiller in 2008 promoting the problematic movie, in which Robert Downey Jr. wears blackface.

A new McGill study suggests that problematic social media use among teens is in part related to broader social inequalities. Zékai Lu, a Ph.D. student in McGill's Department of Sociology and author of ...

Problematic alcohol use by physicians appears to be increasing, new research shows. However, good data on exactly how common this is and on salient risk factors are lacking, investigators note. In a ...

Problematic Smartphone Usage — or smartphone addiction — is now being viewed as a psychiatric disorder, with an average of 23% of kids and young adults found to suffer from it. Researchers at King’s ...

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My first unpleasant encounter with the current meaning of the word “problematic” occurred a couple of years ago. I was mingling with some twenty- and thirtysomethings at an outdoor birthday party in ...