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Why the Catholic Church is so slow to act in sex abuse cases: 4 essential reads

  • Written by Kalpana Jain, Senior Religion + Ethics Editor
Members of Chile's bishops conference, in May 2018, who say they are open to whatever Pope Francis proposes to overhaul the Chilean church devastated by a clergy sex abuse and cover-up scandal. AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia

The Vatican’s retired ambassador to the United States, Carlo Maria Vigano, has accused Pope Francis and other officials of...

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Here's how forests rebounded from Yellowstone's epic 1988 fires – and why that could be harder in the future

  • Written by Monica G. Turner, Professor of Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The 2016 Maple fire (photographed in July 2017) reburned young forests that had regenerated after the 1988 Yellowstone fires. More frequent high-severity fires are expected in the future as climate warms, which may change patterns of forest recovery.Monica Turner, CC BY-ND

This summer marks the 30th anniversary of the 1988 Yellowstone fires –...

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Why McCain and all POWs deserve our profound respect and gratitude

  • Written by Joan Cook, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University
Sen. John McCain pictured at a rally Oct. 15, 2014 in Marietta, Georgia to support Senate candidate David Perdue, who was elected a few weeks later. John Amis/AP Photo

On Saturday, John McCain, the U.S. Republican senator from Arizona, a war hero and two-time presidential contender, died. As remembrances of him pour out, let us not focus on...

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Fear of a Non-Nuclear Family

  • Written by Phillip Martin, Podcast host

In 1968 the “Norman Rockwell” picture of the American family – the husband as breadwinner, the stay-at-home wife and mother, two kids, a white picket fence – was still widely accepted as the ideal. But things were starting to change. The feminist movement was encouraging more women to enter the workforce and protest...

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Red-state politics in and out of the college classroom

  • Written by Natasha Zaretsky, Associate Professor of History, Southern Illinois University

For two decades, I have taught U.S. women’s and gender history at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, a blue town in a blue state, marooned in an ocean of red.

Bordered by Appalachia, the Mississippi Delta and the Ozarks, Southern Illinois is surrounded by the country’s poorest rural regions.

Some of my students arrive from...

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Revolution Starts on Campus

  • Written by Phillip Martin, Editor

The radical student takeover of Columbia University in 1968 sparked a worldwide student protest movement: From Eastern Europe to South America, students rose up against authoritarian governments, racial inequality and, most passionately, against the war in Vietnam. Host Phillip Martin talks to African American studies professor Stefan Bradley...

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1968 protests at Columbia University called attention to 'Gym Crow' and got worldwide attention

  • Written by Stefan M. Bradley, Chair, Department of African American Studies, Loyola Marymount University
Black power militant H. Rap Brown and Stokely Carmichael (right) appeared at a sit-in protest at Columbia University in New York City on April 26, 1968.AP

“If they build the first story, blow it up. If they sneak back at night and build three stories, burn it down. And if they get nine stories built, it’s yours. Take it over, and...

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Chronic pain after trauma may depend on what stress gene variation you carry

  • Written by Sarah Linnstaedt, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
More than 100 million American suffer from chronic pain -- in which pain signals continue in the nervous system for weeks, months, or even years. pathdoc/Shutterstock.com

Unfortunately, almost every individual in the world will experience at least one traumatic event, such as a car crash, assault, exposure to war combat or a natural disaster during...

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Petróleo venezolano provoca el auge y caída del régimen de Ortega en Nicaragua

  • Written by Benjamin Waddell, Associate Professor of Sociology, Fort Lewis College

La popularidad del presidente de Nicaragua Daniel Ortega ha disminuido drásticamente.

En enero del 2018, obtuvo el más alto nivel de aprobación entre los presidentes centroamericanos, con un 54 por ciento de apoyo. Hoy los nicaragüenses piden la renuncia inmediata de Ortega.

Ortega, el ex guerrillero sandinista que...

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El petróleo venezolano provoca el auge y caída del régimen de Ortega en Nicaragua

  • Written by Benjamin Waddell, Associate Professor of Sociology, Fort Lewis College

La popularidad del presidente de Nicaragua Daniel Ortega ha disminuido drásticamente.

En enero del 2018, obtuvo el más alto nivel de aprobación entre los presidentes centroamericanos, con un 54 por ciento de apoyo. Hoy los nicaragüenses piden la renuncia inmediata de Ortega.

Ortega, el ex guerrillero sandinista que...

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  5. Qatar's $15 billion snub of Trump over Turkey puts another key US relationship in Middle East at risk
  6. The few humanities majors who dominate in the business world
  7. Far-sighted adaptation to rising seas is blocked by just fixing eroded beaches
  8. India has a sexual assault problem that only women can fix
  9. La devaluación 'desesperada' de la moneda de Venezuela no evitará un colapso económico
  10. Could the future edge in college sports be mental wellness?
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  12. A Trump Administration casualty: Democracy and civil rights in the Middle East
  13. What the grieving mother orca tells us about how animals experience death
  14. Hurricane season not only brings destruction and death but rising inequality too
  15. Tearing down Confederate statues leaves structural racism intact
  16. Michael Cohen’s guilty plea? ‘Nothing to see here’
  17. Teens who feel down may benefit from picking others up
  18. Why the US has the campaign finance laws that Michael Cohen broke and what their history means for Trump
  19. There's a dark history to the campaign finance laws Michael Cohen broke — and that should worry Trump
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  22. Despite predictions of their demise, college textbooks aren't going away
  23. Child pornography may make a comeback after court ruling guts regulations protecting minors
  24. Trump's coal plan – neither clean nor affordable
  25. For some Catholics, it is demons that taunt priests with sexual desire
  26. Could college textbooks soon get cheaper?
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  28. Today’s GOP leaders have little in common with those who resisted Nixon
  29. ¿Qué tan decisivo será el 'voto latino' anti-Trump en las elecciones intermedias de EEUU?
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  33. Venezuela's 'desperate' currency devaluation won't save its economy from collapse
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  37. The lies we tell on dating apps to find love
  38. Coffee farmers struggle to adapt to Colombia's changing climate
  39. When losing one's research partner is like losing a part of oneself
  40. Venezuelan oil fueled the rise and fall of Nicaragua's Ortega regime
  41. China’s garbage ban upends US recycling – is it time to reconsider incineration?
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  43. Ban 'killer robots' to protect fundamental moral and legal principles
  44. Civil lawsuits are the only way to hold bishops accountable for abuse cover-ups
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