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Biden brings a menorah lighting back to the White House, rededicating a Hanukkah tradition from the 20th century

  • Written by Jonathan D. Sarna, University Professor and Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University
imageThe lighting of the National Menorah in Washington, D.C. in 2012.AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin

President Joe Biden’s staff has dispatched invitations to a “Menorah Lighting to be held at the White House” on Dec. 1, the evening when the fourth candle of the eight-day festival of Hanukkah will be lit. The event promises to be quite...

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This Hanukkah, learn about the holiday's forgotten heroes: Women

  • Written by Alan Avery-Peck, Kraft-Hiatt Professor in Judaic Studies, College of the Holy Cross
imageA Jewish woman lights a candle for the festival of Hanukkah at the Western Wall Plaza in Jerusalem.Marco Longari/AFP via Getty Images

The eight-day Jewish festival of Hanukkah commemorates ancient Jews’ victory over the powerful Seleucid empire, which ruled much of the Middle East from the third century B.C. to the first century A.D.

On the...

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Who's in? Who's out? The ethics of COVID-19 travel rules

  • Written by Nancy S. Jecker, Professor of Bioethics and Humanities, School of Medicine, University of Washington
imagePeople wait at O. R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa on Nov. 26, 2021, as many nations moved to stop air travel from the country. AP Photo/Jerome Delay

Omicron, the latest COVID-19 variant dubbed a “variant of concern” by the World Health Organization, has prompted new travel restrictions in many nations....

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What the public doesn't get: Anti-CRT lawmakers are passing pro-CRT laws

  • Written by Jonathan Feingold, Associate Professor of Law, Boston University
imageAn even mix of proponents and opponents to teaching critical race theory attend a Placentia-Yorba Linda school board meeting in California.Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Since the final months of the Trump administration, the Republican Party has waged a sustained assault on critical race theory. Otherwise known as...

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Quitting your job or thinking about joining the ‘great resignation’? Here's what an employment lawyer advises

  • Written by Elizabeth C. Tippett, Associate Professor of Law, University of Oregon
imageA record number of Americans are telling their managers, 'I quit.' labsas/iStock via Getty Images

Record numbers of Americans have quit their jobs in recent months, with more than 4.4 million submitting their resignation in September alone. Millions more may be preparing to follow them to the exits – one survey found that around a third of...

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Will omicron – the new coronavirus variant of concern – be more contagious than delta? A virus evolution expert explains what researchers know and what they don't

  • Written by Suresh V. Kuchipudi, Professor of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Penn State
imageThe omicron variant possesses numerous mutations in the spike protein, the knob-like protrusions (in red) that allow the virus to invade other cells.Juan Gaertner/Science Photo Library via Getty Images

A new variant named omicron (B.1.1.529) was reported by researchers in South Africa on Nov. 24, 2021, and designated a “variant of...

Read more: Will omicron – the new coronavirus variant of concern – be more contagious than delta? A virus...

Charitable gifts from donor-advised funds favor education and religion

  • Written by Anna Pruitt, Researcher and Managing Editor, Giving USA, IUPUI
imageDonations channeled through DAFs follow different patterns than for overall charitable giving.Counter/DigitalVision via Getty Images

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

The big idea

Large shares of grants that donor-advised funds distributed from 2014 to 2018 supported educational and religious nonprofits. That’s...

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Giving Tuesday: Charitable gifts from donor-advised funds favor education and religion

  • Written by Anna Pruitt, Researcher and Managing Editor, Giving USA, IUPUI
imageDonations channeled through DAFs follow different patterns than for overall charitable giving.Counter/DigitalVision via Getty Images

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

The big idea

Large shares of grants that donor-advised funds distributed from 2014 to 2018 supported educational and religious nonprofits. That’s...

Read more: Giving Tuesday: Charitable gifts from donor-advised funds favor education and religion

2021 Atlantic hurricane season showed the US isn’t prepared for climate-related disasters that push people deeper into poverty

  • Written by Marina Lazetic, Senior Research Analyst and Ph.D. Candidate in Human Security, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
imagePeople wade through high water to evacuate a flooded home in LaPlace, La., after Hurricane Ida struck.Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

Hurricane Ida hit New Orleans on Aug. 29, 2021, 16 years to the day after Hurricane Katrina flooded the city. This time the levees held. Billions of dollars invested in reinforcing them had paid off – at...

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When 'hunker down' isn't an option: The 2021 Atlantic hurricane season showed how low-income communities face the highest risks

  • Written by Marina Lazetic, Senior Research Analyst and Ph.D. Candidate in Human Security, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
imagePeople wade through high water to evacuate a flooded home in LaPlace, La., after Hurricane Ida struck.Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

Hurricane Ida hit New Orleans on Aug. 29, 2021, 16 years to the day after Hurricane Katrina flooded the city. This time the levees held. Billions of dollars invested in reinforcing them had paid off – at...

Read more: When 'hunker down' isn't an option: The 2021 Atlantic hurricane season showed how low-income...

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  4. Reverse vaccination technique in mice suggests new way to teach the immune system not to attack lifesaving treatments
  5. Who invented video games?
  6. Money, schools and religion: A controversial combo returns to the Supreme Court
  7. Millions of Americans struggle to pay their water bills – here's how a national water aid program could work
  8. Drop in students who come to the US to study could affect higher education and jobs
  9. The pandemic is changing the way young people eat and how they feel about their bodies: 4 essential reads
  10. Jury finds 3 Georgia men guilty of Ahmaud Arbery murder: 3 essential reads
  11. Great headphones blend physics, anatomy and psychology – but what you like to listen to is also important for choosing the right pair
  12. Biden taps the Strategic Petroleum Reserve – What is it? Where did it come from? And does the US still need it?
  13. The thousands of vulnerable people harmed by Facebook and Instagram are lost in Meta's 'average user' data
  14. The NRA could be winning its long game even as it appears to be in dire straits
  15. What the Peng Shuai saga tells us about Beijing's grip on power and desire to crush a #MeToo moment
  16. 'Let's Go Brandon' and the linguistic jiujitsu of American politics
  17. Stereotypes about girls dissuade many from careers in computer science
  18. Grocery workers suffer the mental health effects of customer hostility and lack of safety in their workplace
  19. Prayer apps are flooding the market, but how well do they work?
  20. Spotty data and media bias delay justice for missing and murdered Indigenous people
  21. The lessons 'Moby-Dick' has for a warming world of rising waters
  22. Space law hasn't been changed since 1967 – but the UN aims to update laws and keep space peaceful
  23. Art illuminates the beauty of science – and could inspire the next generation of scientists young and old
  24. Scientist at work: Endangered ocelots and their genetic diversity may benefit from artificial insemination
  25. The COVID-19 pandemic offers an opportunity to make a healthy shift in body ideals
  26. Career-based classes keep students more engaged
  27. A new ratings industry is emerging to help homebuyers assess climate risks
  28. Why the oil industry's pivot to carbon capture and storage – while it keeps on drilling – isn't a climate change solution
  29. SUV tragedy in Wisconsin shows how vehicles can be used as a weapon of mass killing – intentionally or not
  30. Supreme Court could redefine when a fetus becomes a person, upholding abortion limits while preserving the privacy right under Roe v. Wade
  31. The average person's daily choices can still make a big difference in fighting climate change – and getting governments and utilities to tackle it, too
  32. How the pandemic helped spread fentanyl across the US and drive opioid overdose deaths to a grim new high
  33. Project Veritas and the mainstream media: Strange allies in the fight to protect press freedom
  34. Americans support climate change policies, especially those that give them incentives and clean up the energy supply
  35. Infrastructure law's digital equity goals are key to smart cities that work for everyone
  36. Adoptees nationwide may soon gain access to their original birth certificates
  37. Talking turkey! How the Thanksgiving bird got its name (and then lent it to film flops)
  38. The first Thanksgiving is a key chapter in America's origin story – but what happened in Virginia four months later mattered much more
  39. Why are barns painted red?
  40. Rittenhouse verdict flies in the face of legal standards for self-defense
  41. Jerome Powell keeps his job at the Fed, where he'll be responsible for preventing inflation from spiraling out of control – without tanking the economy
  42. Meet the person responsible for keeping inflation from spiraling out of control – without tanking the economy
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  45. Cuba's post-revolution architecture offers a blueprint for how to build more with less
  46. Tick management programs could help stop Lyme disease, but US funding is inadequate
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  48. Conspiracies about a 'catastrophic takeover' by Jews have long been an American problem
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  50. Why Moderna won't share rights to the COVID-19 vaccine with the government that paid for its development