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While the Supreme Court deliberates on the Affordable Care Act, Congress and the White House may act

  • Written by Zack Buck, Associate Professor of Law, University of Tennessee
imageDemonstrators hold up pro-Affordable Care Act signs outside the U.S. Supreme Court as it hears oral arguments that challenge the Affordable Care Act in Washington on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020. Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

For the third time in a decade, the U.S. Supreme Court has heard oral arguments on the constitutionality of...

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New Yorkers knew Donald Trump first – and they spurned him before many American voters did

  • Written by Lincoln Mitchell, Associate Adjunct Research Scholar, Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University
imageEvery single voting district in Manhattan, where Trump lives, went for Joe Biden. Times Square, Nov. 7, 2020.Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images

Donald J. Trump was a president from, but not of, New York.

In the final months of his presidency, Trump attacked New York as a lawless “ghost town,” and got attacked right...

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Smart concrete could pave the way for high-tech, cost-effective roads

  • Written by Luna Lu, ACPA Scholar & Professor Of Civil Engineering, Purdue University
imageThe Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco averages more than 100,000 vehicles daily.Photo by Saketh Garuda for Unsplash

Every day, Americans travel on roads, bridges and highways without considering the safety or reliability of these structures. Yet much of the transportation infrastructure in the U.S. is outdated, deteriorating and badly in need of...

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When scientific journals take sides during an election, the public's trust in science takes a hit

  • Written by Kevin L. Young, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
imagePeople lose faith in science when it takes a political side.AP Photo/Wong Maye-E

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.

The big idea

When the scientific establishment gets involved in partisan politics, it decreases people’s trust in science, especially among conservatives, according to our recent research.

In the...

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60 years after JFK, Biden as second Catholic president offers a refresh in church's political role

  • Written by Steven P. Millies, Associate Professor of Public Theology and Director of The Bernardin Center, Catholic Theological Union
imageJoe Biden quoted Pope Francis in speeches ahead of the Nov. 3 election.Mindy Schauer/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty Images

Running to become the first Catholic president of the United States in 1960, Sen. John F. Kennedy told an audience of wary Protestant ministers that “if the time should come … when my office...

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The many stories of Diwali share a common theme of triumph of justice

  • Written by Natasha Mikles, Lecturer in Philosophy, Texas State University
imageDiwali is the most important festival for the South Asian community.Photo By Cyrus McCrimmon/The Denver Post via Getty Images

As many Indian Americans celebrate the election of the first Black and South Asian woman, Kamala Harris, to the White House, many will also be celebrating the festival of Diwali on Saturday, Nov. 14.

Sometimes called the...

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On environmental protection, Biden's election will mean a 180-degree turn from Trump policies

  • Written by Janet McCabe, Professor of Practice of Law, Indiana University
imagePresident-elect Joe Biden opposes proposals to allow uranium mining around the Grand Canyon, which the Trump administration supports.Michael Quinn, NPS/Flickr, CC BY

The Trump administration has waged what I and many other legal experts view as an all-out assault on the nation’s environmental laws for the past four years. Decisions at the...

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When a child chooses a donor to sponsor them, it's a new twist on a surprisingly old model of international charity

  • Written by Hillary Kaell, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Religion at McGill University; Faculty fellow of the Material Economies of Religion in the Americas project, Yale University
imageWorld Vision sponsors could choose a child in the mid-1970s by pasting one of these stamps with their likeness on a mail-in card.World Vision International archives

World Vision, the world’s largest Christian humanitarian organization, revised its 70-year-old child sponsorship model in 2019. Initially piloted in seven churches across the...

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Tweets reveal Trump’s and Biden’s competing views of masculinity – what that will mean for presidential leadership

  • Written by Karrin Vasby Anderson, Professor of Communication Studies, Colorado State University
imageJoe Biden, here on Jan. 21 in Ames, Iowa, exhibits a kind of masculinity different from Donald Trump's. Al Drago/Getty Images

Shortly after news networks called the presidential race in favor of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, posted the following tweet:

imageScreen Shot, Twitter.

More than a heartwarming glimpse into...

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The Matrix is already here: Social media promised to connect us, but left us isolated, scared and tribal

  • Written by Arash Javanbakht, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University
imageIt's time, says the author, to take the red pill.Diy13 via Getty Images

About a year ago I began to follow my interest in health and fitness on Instagram. Soon I began to see more and more fitness-related accounts, groups, posts and ads. I kept clicking and following, and eventually my Instagram became all about fit people, fitness and motivational...

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  3. In its troubled hour, polling could use an irreverent figure to reset expectations
  4. In appealing to 'give each other a chance,' Biden recalls the democratic charity of Abraham Lincoln
  5. Biden's climate change plans can quickly raise the bar, but can they be transformative?
  6. Buying a coronavirus vaccine for everyone on Earth, storing and shipping it, and giving it safely will all be hard and expensive
  7. Oil field operations likely triggered earthquakes in California a few miles from the San Andreas Fault
  8. How you can help veterans every day
  9. Conservatives backed the ideas behind Obamacare, so how did they come to hate it?
  10. How to host a safe holiday meal during coronavirus – an epidemiologist explains her personal plans
  11. Russia's rigged elections look nothing like the US election – they have immediate, unquestioned results there
  12. Why we didn't get a vaccine by Election Day – but why we may get one soon
  13. Who are patron saints and why do Catholics venerate them?
  14. Flaws emerge in modeling human genetic diseases in animals
  15. What the California vote to keep the ban on affirmative action means for higher education
  16. Choosing health insurance is so complicated, 23% of workers with only two choices picked the worse one
  17. How children with lethal cancers and other incurable illnesses have benefited from the Affordable Care Act – and why they'll suffer if the Supreme Court overturns it
  18. Before Kamala Harris, many Black women aimed for the White House
  19. Exoplanets are still out there -- a new model tells astronomers where to look for more using 4 simple variables
  20. Conservatives value personal stories more than liberals do when evaluating scientific evidence
  21. Farmers are depleting the Ogallala Aquifer because the government pays them to do it
  22. So-called 'Latino vote' is 32 million Americans with diverse political opinions and national origins
  23. The complicated origin of the expression 'peanut gallery'
  24. Why Republicans and others concerned about the economy have reason to celebrate Biden in the White House
  25. Georgia's political shift – a tale of urban and suburban change
  26. Biden wins – experts on what it means for race relations, US foreign policy and the Supreme Court
  27. How votes are counted in Pennsylvania: Changing numbers are a sign of transparency, not fraud, during an ongoing process
  28. Has Donald Trump had his Joe McCarthy moment?
  29. Is democracy sacred?
  30. Job policies that offer generous unemployment benefits create more happiness – for everyone
  31. A skin-eating fungus from Europe could decimate Appalachia's salamanders – but researchers are working to prevent an outbreak
  32. Keep calm and carry on – but how? A psychologist offers 10 tips to manage the uncertainty and stress of election aftermath
  33. COVID-19 reveals how obesity harms the body in real time, not just over a lifetime
  34. Delinquent electric bills from the pandemic are coming due – who will pay them?
  35. How Reagan's notions of a 'good society' resonate with Trump supporters today
  36. Remote education is rife with threats to student privacy
  37. 5 types of misinformation to watch out for while ballots are being counted – and after
  38. Congress could select the president in a disputed election
  39. Trump's Pennsylvania lawsuits invoke Bush v. Gore – but the Supreme Court probably won't decide the 2020 election
  40. 3 scholars explain Senate results in South Carolina, Iowa and Arizona - and what they say about voters
  41. A disputed election delivered 3 governors to Georgia – at the same time
  42. Post-election grief is real, and here are 5 coping strategies – including getting back into politics
  43. Although now required by California law, ethnic studies courses likely to be met with resistance
  44. California voters decide Uber and Lyft drivers are 'contractors' as gig workers continue search for a livable wage
  45. The International Space Station at 20 offers hope and a template for future cooperation
  46. Even if you're asymptomatic, COVID-19 can harm your heart, study shows – here's what student athletes need to know
  47. An embarrassing failure for election pollsters
  48. History tells us that a contested election won't destroy American democracy
  49. Who invented the Electoral College?
  50. 'Rainbow wave' of LGBTQ candidates run and win in 2020 election