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Rural America is more vulnerable to COVID-19 than cities are, and it's starting to show

  • Written by David J. Peters, Associate Professor of Rural Sociology, Iowa State University
imageWorkers wait to enter a Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Logansport, Indiana. The plant had been closed after nearly 900 employees tested positive for the coronavirus.AP Photo/Michael Conroy

Rural areas seemed immune as the coronavirus spread through cities earlier this year. Few rural cases were reported, and attention focused on the surge of i...

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Dead white men get their say in court as Virginia tries to remove Robert E. Lee statues

  • Written by Allison Anna Tait, Professor of Law, University of Richmond
imageRichmond's towering Robert E. Lee statue is transformed by protests following the killing of George Floyd. Is removal next?John McDonnell/The Washington Post via Getty Images

The latest chapter in the United States’ ongoing debate about Confederate monuments involves some unexpected opinions: those of long-dead land donors.

Responding to sustai...

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Can you visit your dad safely on Father's Day? A doctor gives you a checklist

  • Written by Claudia Finkelstein, Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Michigan State University
imageThere's nothing quite like the joy of being with one's father -- and for dads being with their kids.eff Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

As a physician, daughter and socially responsible human, I’m finding Father’s Day to be complicated for me this year, as it is for millions. Questions of whether and how to see my...

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How Hemingway felt about fatherhood

  • Written by Verna Kale, Associate Editor, The Letters of Ernest Hemingway and Assistant Research Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University
imageHemingway and his eldest son, Bumby, pose in Havana harbor in 1933.Collection of David Meeker, Author provided

Ernest Hemingway was affectionately called “Papa,” but what kind of dad was he?

In my role as Associate Editor of the Hemingway Letters Project, I spend my time investigating the approximately 6,000 letters sent by Hemingway,...

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Black Americans, crucial workers in crises, emerge worse off – not better

  • Written by Calvin Schermerhorn, Professor of History, Arizona State University
imageA group of sharecroppers, evicted from their land in the Great Depression, stand beside a Missouri road in January 1939.GHI/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

On June 19, 1865 – 155 years ago – black Americans celebrating the day of Jubilee, later known as Juneteenth, may have expected a shot at real opportunity. Freedom from slaver...

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Quarantine bubbles – when done right – limit coronavirus risk and help fight loneliness

  • Written by Melissa Hawkins, Professor of Public Health, Director of Public Health Scholars Program, American University
imageQuaranteams offer a way to limit the risk of infection while also maintaining social contacts and mental health. Oqvector / iStock Getty Images Plus via Getty Images

After three months of lockdowns, many people in the U.S. and around the world are turning to quarantine bubbles, pandemic pods or quaranteams in an effort to balance the risks of the...

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Supreme Court to decide the future of the Electoral College

  • Written by Morgan Marietta, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell
imageOn Dec. 19, 2016, Colorado elector Micheal Baca, in T-shirt second from left, cast his electoral ballot for John Kasich, though Hillary Clinton had won his state's popular vote.AP Photo/Brennan Linsley

Many Americans are surprised to learn that in U.S. presidential elections, the members of the Electoral College do not necessarily have to pick the...

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Pandemic, privacy rules add to worries over 2020 census accuracy

  • Written by Qian Cai, Research Director of Demographics Research Group, University of Virginia
imageThe pandemic has stretched out the amount of time the census is being conducted, contributing to worries over accuracy. Kena Benakur/AFP via Getty Images

For the Census Bureau, the timing of national shutdowns due to the pandemic could not have been much worse.

Stay-at-home orders in March coincided with the period when millions of Americans...

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Can Asia end its uncontrolled consumption of wildlife? Here's how North America did it a century ago

  • Written by Roland Kays, Research Associate Professor of Wildlife and Scientist at NC Museum of Natural Sciences, North Carolina State University
imageBurning confiscated elephant ivory and animal horns in Myanmar's first public display of action against the illegal wildlife trade, Oct. 4, 2018.Ye Aung Thu/AFP via Getty Images

It was a dark time for animals. Poaching was rampant. Wild birds and mammals were being slaughtered by the thousands. An out-of-control wildlife trade was making...

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I study coronavirus in a highly secured biosafety lab – here's why I feel safer here than in the world outside

  • Written by Troy Sutton, Assistant Professor of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, Pennsylvania State University
imageTroy Sutton works with potentially deadly pathogens but the right precautions greatly reduce the risks.Penn State, CC BY-ND

It’s quiet in the laboratory, almost peaceful. But I’m holding live SARS-CoV-2 in my hands and this virus is not to be taken lightly.

As I dilute the coronavirus to infect cultured cells, I hear the reassuring sound...

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  3. Black religious leaders are up front and central in US protests – as they have been for the last 200 years
  4. What the Supreme Court's decision on LGBT employment discrimination will mean for transgender Americans
  5. US giving reached a near-record $450 billion in 2019 as the role of foundations kept up gradual growth
  6. Supreme Court expands workplace equality to LGBTQ employees, but questions remain
  7. How doctors' fears of getting COVID-19 can mean losing the healing power of touch: One physician's story
  8. Nondiscrimination against LGBT individuals isn't just the law – it helps organizations succeed
  9. Ready to see your doctor but scared to go? Here are some guidelines
  10. People are getting sick from coronavirus spreading through the air – and that's a big challenge for reopening
  11. Why are sitcom dads still so inept?
  12. Herd immunity won’t solve our COVID-19 problem
  13. 'Normal' human body temperature is a range around 98.6 F – a physiologist explains why
  14. Meteorites from Mars contain clues about the red planet's geology
  15. 'Telepresence' can help bring advanced courses to schools that don't offer them
  16. 3 lessons from how schools responded to the 1918 pandemic worth heeding today
  17. COVID-19 will turn the state pension problem into a fiscal crisis
  18. What Buddhism and science can teach each other – and us – about the universe
  19. A pragmatist philosopher's view of the US response to the coronavirus pandemic
  20. Uruguay quietly beats coronavirus, distinguishing itself from its South American neighbors – yet again
  21. Are we all OCD now, with obsessive hand-washing and technology addiction?
  22. India's goddesses of contagion provide protection in the pandemic – just don't make them angry
  23. Coronavirus shows how ageism is harmful to health of older adults
  24. No justice, no peace: Why Catholic priests are kneeling with George Floyd protesters
  25. Being convicted of a crime has thousands of consequences besides incarceration – and some last a lifetime
  26. Why hairdressers, gyms and the Trump campaign are asking people to sign COVID-19 waivers
  27. What the archaeological record reveals about epidemics throughout history – and the human response to them
  28. Was the coronavirus outbreak an intelligence failure?
  29. What is a derecho? An atmospheric scientist explains these rare but dangerous storm systems
  30. Police unions are one of the biggest obstacles to transforming policing
  31. Video: How simple math can help predict the melting of sea ice
  32. Why stocks are soaring even as coronavirus cases surge, at least 20 million remain unemployed and the US sinks into recession
  33. Churchgoers aren't able to lift every voice and sing during the pandemic – here's why that matters
  34. A short history of black women and police violence
  35. Am I immune to COVID-19 if I have antibodies?
  36. High-tech surveillance amplifies police bias and overreach
  37. Students demand removal of 'mild racist' from Georgia landscape
  38. China's efforts to win hearts and minds with aid and investment may make all the difference if there's a cold war with the US
  39. How DC Mayor Bowser used graffiti to protect public space
  40. More people eat frog legs than you think – and humans are harvesting frogs at unsustainable rates
  41. What colleges and universities can do to improve police-community relations
  42. Could China's strategic pork reserve be a model for the US?
  43. How 'Karen' went from a popular baby name to a stand-in for white entitlement
  44. Why soldiers might disobey the president's orders to occupy US cities
  45. Who killed Sweden's prime minister? 1986 assassination of Olof Palme is finally solved – maybe
  46. During Floyd protests, media industry reckons with long history of collaboration with law enforcement
  47. Neighborhood-based friendships making a comeback for kids in the age of coronavirus
  48. Is it safe to stay in a hotel, cabin or rental home yet?
  49. Adding women to corporate boards improves decisions about medical product safety
  50. Going online due to COVID-19 this fall could hurt colleges' future