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I've taught in prisons for 15 years – here's what schools need to know as government funding expands

  • Written by Nicholas De Dominic, Associate Professor of Writing, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
imageIn the U.S., almost 2 million people are in prison.Rizky Panuntun/Moment via Getty Images

In spring of 2023, I taught a class on memoir at the California Institution for Women, a medium-security facility, in Chino.

The course focused on autobiographical writing. Each week, students were asked to draft narratives focused on their life story and its...

Read more: I've taught in prisons for 15 years – here's what schools need to know as government funding expands

Hypocrisy penalty: Investors especially hate companies that say they're good then behave badly – unless the money is good

  • Written by Brian L. Connelly, Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship, Auburn University
imageInvestors don't like it when companies do one thing and then say another. Adam Gault/Photodisc via Getty Images

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

The big idea

Stock investors punish companies caught doing something unethical a lot more when when these businesses also have a record of portraying themselves as...

Read more: Hypocrisy penalty: Investors especially hate companies that say they're good then behave badly –...

Progressives' embrace of Disney in battle with DeSantis over LGBTQ rights comes with risks

  • Written by Steven Gerencser, Professor of Political Science, Indiana University
imageIs Disney really a 'woke' corporation? AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack

The battle between The Walt Disney Co. and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over LGBTQ rights and whether those rights should be acknowledged – let alone taught – in schools has spurred an unlikely alliance between progressives and one of the world’s biggest entertainment...

Read more: Progressives' embrace of Disney in battle with DeSantis over LGBTQ rights comes with risks

Deaf rappers who lay down rhymes in sign languages are changing what it means for music to be heard

  • Written by Katelyn Best, Teaching Assistant Professor of Musicology, West Virginia University
imageRapper Beautiful The Artist performs in the music video for the dip hop song 'DEAFinitely Lit.'Beautiful The Artist/YouTube

In April 2023, DJ Supalee hosted Supafest Reunion 2023 to celebrate entertainers and promoters within the U.S. Deaf community.

The event included performances by R&B artist and rapper Sho’Roc, female rapper Beautiful...

Read more: Deaf rappers who lay down rhymes in sign languages are changing what it means for music to be heard

4 factors driving 2023's extreme heat and climate disasters

  • Written by Michael Wysession, Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
image2023's weather has been extreme in many ways.AP Photo/Michael Probst

Between the record-breaking global heat and extreme downpours, it’s hard to ignore that something unusual is going on with the weather in 2023.

People have been quick to blame climate change – and they’re right, to a point: Human-caused global warming does play...

Read more: 4 factors driving 2023's extreme heat and climate disasters

Hunter Biden's plea agreement renegotiation is rare – a law professor explains what usually happens

  • Written by Lorna Grisby, Senior Politics & Society Editor
imageHunter Biden arrives at federal court in Wilmington, Delaware, to review a plea deal on misdemeanor tax charges.Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images News via Getty Images

The highly anticipated July 26, 2023, federal court appearance in Delaware by President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, ended in a completely unanticipated way.

Hunter Biden was there to...

Read more: Hunter Biden's plea agreement renegotiation is rare – a law professor explains what usually happens

Sen. Tuberville's blockade of US military promotions takes a historic tradition to a radical new level – and could go beyond Congress' August break

  • Written by Brooks D. Simpson, Faculty Head and Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communication, Arizona State University
imageSen. Tommy Tuberville speaks to reporters about his hold on promotions of hundreds of high-ranking military officers.Drew Angerer/Getty Images

As Congress prepares to head into its August 2023 break, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, a Republican from Alabama, shows no signs of ending his five-month-long hold on military promotions for several hundred senior...

Read more: Sen. Tuberville's blockade of US military promotions takes a historic tradition to a radical new...

As witchcraft becomes a multibillion-dollar business, practitioners' connection to the natural world is changing

  • Written by Helen A. Berger, Affliated Scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University
imageThe natural world is an important part of Pagan practice.Louise OLIGNY/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

Witches, Wiccans and other contemporary Pagans see divinity in trees, streams, plants and animals. Most Pagans view the Earth as the Goddess, with a body that humans must care for, and from which they gain emotional, spiritual and physical...

Read more: As witchcraft becomes a multibillion-dollar business, practitioners' connection to the natural...

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts uses conflicting views of race to resolve America's history of racial discrimination

  • Written by Henry L. Chambers Jr., Professor of Law, University of Richmond
imageU.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts attends the State of the Union address on Feb. 7, 2023. Jacquelyn Martin-Pool/Getty Images

In two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 summer recess, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote majority opinions that involved the use of race.

In the court’s 5-4 Allen v. Milligan decision, Roberts...

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Where the government draws the line for Medicaid coverage leaves out many older Americans who may need help paying for medical and long-term care bills – new research

  • Written by Marc Cohen, Clinical Professor of Gerontology and Co-Director LeadingAge LTSS Center, UMass Boston
imageMany older people with health insurance coverage through Medicare still can't afford the care they need.RichLegg/E+ via Getty Images

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

The big idea

Medicaid, which provides low-income Americans with health insurance coverage, currently excludes large numbers of adults over 65 with...

Read more: Where the government draws the line for Medicaid coverage leaves out many older Americans who may...

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  2. In search of the world's largest freshwater fish – the wonderfully weird giants lurking in Earth's rivers
  3. How well-managed dams and smart forecasting can limit flooding as extreme storms become more common in a warming world
  4. Women can now undertake Islamic pilgrimages without a male guardian in Saudi Arabia, but that doesn't mean they're traveling alone -- communities are an important part of the religious experience
  5. Horse health research will help humans stay healthy, too, with insights on reining in diabetes and obesity
  6. Laughter can communicate a lot more than good humor – people use it to smooth social interactions
  7. As contentious judicial 'reform' becomes law in Israel, Netanyahu cements his political legacy
  8. Decades of public messages about recycling in the US have crowded out more sustainable ways to manage waste
  9. Will I ever need math? A mathematician explains how math is everywhere – from soap bubbles to Pixar movies
  10. Massachusetts is updating its sex education guidelines for the first time in 24 years
  11. Blame capitalism? Why hundreds of decades-old yet vital drugs are nearly impossible to find
  12. How book-banning campaigns have changed the lives and education of librarians – they now need to learn how to plan for safety and legally protect themselves
  13. This year's debate over defense spending threatens to disrupt a tradition of bipartisan consensus-building over funding the military
  14. A sculptor of wind explains how to make fiber dance far above city streets
  15. Women's World Cup will highlight how far other countries have closed the gap with US – but that isn't the only yardstick to measure growth of global game
  16. Global diabetes cases on pace to soar to 1.3 billion people in the next 3 decades, new study finds
  17. First contact with aliens could end in colonization and genocide if we don't learn from history
  18. What is a target letter? 3 things to know about how the Justice Department notifies suspects, like Donald Trump, ahead of possible charges
  19. Targeting Trump for prosecution – 4 essential reads on how the Jan. 6 investigation laid the groundwork for the special counsel
  20. Exercise may or may not help you lose weight and keep it off – here's the evidence for both sides of the debate
  21. Registering refugees using personal information has become the norm – but cybersecurity breaches pose risks to people giving sensitive biometric data
  22. 175 years ago, the Seneca Falls Convention kicked off the fight for women's suffrage – an iconic moment deeply shaped by Quaker beliefs on gender and equality
  23. Using green banks to solve America’s affordable housing crisis – and climate change at the same time
  24. 'Zombie fires' in the Arctic: Canada's extreme wildfire season offers a glimpse of new risks in a warmer, drier future
  25. China needs immigrants
  26. FTC probe of OpenAI: Consumer protection is the opening salvo of US AI regulation
  27. Returning to the Moon can benefit commercial, military and political sectors – a space policy expert explains
  28. Actors are demanding that Hollywood catch up with technological changes in a sequel to a 1960 strike
  29. A 1-minute gun safety video helped preteen children be more careful around real guns – new research
  30. Events that never happened could influence the 2024 presidential election – a cybersecurity researcher explains situation deepfakes
  31. Why people tend to believe UFOs are extraterrestrial
  32. What do astronomers say about Moon landing deniers? Batting down the conspiracy theory with an assist from the 1969 Miracle Mets
  33. What the US can learn from affirmative action at universities in Brazil
  34. International African American Museum in Charleston, S.C., pays new respect to the enslaved Africans who landed on its docks
  35. Religion shapes vaccine views – but how exactly? Our analysis looks at ideas about God and beliefs about the Bible
  36. Impunity over Wagner mutiny signals further degradation of rule of law in Russia
  37. Democrats revive the Equal Rights Amendment from a long legal limbo -- facing an unlikely uphill battle to get it enshrined into law
  38. How I learned to stop worrying and love the doll – a feminist philosopher's journey back to Barbie
  39. As a summer heat wave pummels the US, an expert warns about the dangers of humidity – particularly for toddlers, young athletes and older adults
  40. Hollywood on the picket line – 5 unsung films that put America’s union history on the silver screen
  41. A US-Russia prisoner swap for reporter Evan Gershkovich could be tricky: 3 essential reads on the recent history
  42. Corals are starting to bleach as global ocean temperatures hit record highs
  43. Curing America's loneliness epidemic would make us healthier, fitter and less likely to abuse drugs
  44. Drugs and religion have been a potent combination for millennia, from cannabis at ancient funerary sites to psychedelic retreats today
  45. Is the US being hypocritical in taking years to destroy its chemical weapons, while condemning other nations for their own chemical weapons programs? A political philosopher weighs in
  46. Female physicists aren't represented in the media – and this lack of representation hurts the physics field
  47. A new, thin-lensed telescope design could far surpass James Webb – goodbye mirrors, hello diffractive lenses
  48. A new, thin-lensed telescope design could far surpass James Webb – goodbye mirrors, hello diffractive lenses
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