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Low-wage service workers are facing new emotional hazards in the workplace during COVID-19

  • Written by Lola Loustaunau, Ph.D Candidate, University of Oregon
imageService workers are often tasked with enforcing company mask and social distancing policies. AP Photo/Nati Harnik

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Low-wage service workers increasingly are facing new physical and emotional hazards in the workplace as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, according to...

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Is telehealth as good as in-person care? A telehealth researcher explains how to get the most out of remote health care

  • Written by Jennifer A. Mallow, Associate Professor of Nursing, West Virginia University
imageTelehealth is booming like never before, and many patients and health care providers across the U.S. are using it for the first time. Geber86 / E+ via Getty Images

COVID-19 has led to a boom in telehealth, with some health care facilities seeing an increase in its use by as much as 8,000%.

This shift happened quickly and unexpectedly and has left...

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The Constitution doesn't have a problem with mask mandates

  • Written by John E. Finn, Professor Emeritus of Government, Wesleyan University
imageA protester during an anti-mask rally on July 19 in Indianapolis, Indiana, against the mayor's mask order and the governor's extension of the state shutdown.Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Many public health professionalsand politicians are urging or requiring citizens to wear face masks to help slow the spread of the COVID-19...

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People are dying in US prisons, and not just from COVID-19

  • Written by Heather Schoenfeld, Associate Professor, Boston University
imageDade Correctional Institution where mentally ill prisoner Darren Rainey was locked in a shower stall and died in June 2012. AP Photo/Lynne Sladky

Randall Jordan-Aparo, Darren Rainey and Latandra Ellington are not household names. But like Michael Brown, George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, they were killed by law enforcement officers.

Not police...

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Telework mostly benefits white, affluent Americans – and offers few climate benefits

  • Written by Cutler J Cleveland, Professor of Earth and Environment, Boston University

Back in in 2018 – in the pre-pandemic world – about 5% of the U.S. workforce teleworked from home. That changed dramatically with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic; by May 2020 that number had jumped to about 35%. Tech giants Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon and Twitter announced plans to extend teleworking well into the fall and...

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How other countries reopened schools during the pandemic – and what the US can learn from them

  • Written by Bob Spires, Assistant Professor of Education, University of Richmond
imageClass is in session in Uruguay, one of the first countries in the Western Hemisphere to reopen its schools. AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico

As American school officials debate when it will be safe for schoolchildren to return to classrooms, looking abroad may offer insights. Nearly every country in the world shuttered their schools early in the...

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How popular culture hobbles protest movements

  • Written by Chauncey Maher, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Dickinson College

In response to the anti-racism protests that have erupted across the U.S., many Americans are saying they agree with the goals of the demonstrators, but not their methods. In a recent Pew survey, 67% of Americans say they support the Black Lives Matter movement, but only 19% think protests and rallies – with their demands to defund the...

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Random testing in Indiana shows COVID-19 is 6 times deadlier than flu, and 2.8% of the state has been infected

  • Written by Nir Menachemi, Professor of Health Policy and Management, IUPUI
imageRandom testing conducted in Indiana gives public health officials some of the most representative and accurate data to date.AP Photo/Darron Cummings

Since day one of the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. has not had enough tests. Faced with this shortage, medical professionals used what tests they had on people with the worst symptoms or whose...

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Georgia's election disaster shows how bad voting in 2020 can be

  • Written by Adrienne Jones, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Morehouse College
imageGeorgia voters brought folding chairs, books, laptop computers and plenty of patience to the polls on June.Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images

As the nation mourns civil rights icon John Lewis, a congressman and lifelong advocate of voting rights, the mayhem in his home state’s most recent election serves as another egregious example of how a...

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'In a perfectly just republic,' Bella Abzug – born a century ago – would have been president

  • Written by Pamela S. Nadell, Professor and Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women's & Gender History and Director of the Jewish Studies Program, American University
imageRep. Bella Abzug, center, with Rep. Shirley Chisholm to her left, join antiwar activists marking the opening of the 92nd Congress with a peace demonstration on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. Bettmann / Contributor/Getty

One hundred years ago, on July 24, 1920, Bella Savitzky was “born yelling” in the Bronx, a month before the 19th...

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