Handshakes have been used for thousands of years as a way to show trust and agreement, and may have originated as a way to show that one was not carrying a weapon.

Just as we are bracing ourselves for what the surgeon general called this generation’s “Pearl Harbor moment,” Dr. Anthony Fauci made a suggestion that could change the very nature of our culture for ...

Editor’s Note: This article is part of “Uncharted,” a series about the world we’re leaving behind, and the one being remade by the pandemic. Handshakes, historically, have often been invoked in that ...

Two years after the much-acclaimed handshake between President Uhuru Kenyatta and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, is Kenya going up or coming down? To avoid the embarrassment of being seen as ...

Alternatives to traditional greetings are becoming more popular. With growing health concerns across the globe amid the COVID-19 emergency, people have found themselves in a bit of a bob-and-weave ...