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Think you love your Valentine? What's beneath the surface may be more complicated

  • Written by Vivian Zayas, Associate Professor of Psychology, Cornell University
Real love has more nuance than a candy heart's message.Laura Ockel/Unsplash, CC BY

Valentine cards are filled with expressions of unequivocal adoration and appreciation. That’s fitting for the holiday set aside to express love and reaffirm commitment to one’s romantic partner.

But what if there’s more going on below the surface of...

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Parkland shooting: One year later, Congress still avoids action on gun control

  • Written by Harry L. Wilson, Professor of Public Affairs, Roanoke College
The "March for Our Lives" rally in support of gun control on March 24, 2018 in Washington, DC.AP/Alex Brandon

One year after the deadly mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Florida and a handful of states have passed stricter gun laws, but little has changed with the federal government’s firearms policy.

Polls conducted...

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Is love losing its soul in the digital age?

  • Written by Firmin DeBrabander, Professor of Philosophy, Maryland Institute College of Art
A young couple posing for an Instagram photo.Roman Samborskyi/Shutterstock.com

Instagram users have taken to issuing “weekiversary posts,” where they diligently mark the duration of their romances. An article in The New York Times explained how weekiversary posts have the unintended – or very much intended – consequence of...

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Why Trump failed to convince North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons, and how he can do better at the next summit

  • Written by Stephen Collins, Professor of Political Science, Kennesaw State University
Donald Trump meets with Kim Jong Un in Singapore, 2018.AP Photo/Evan Vucci

President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will meet in Vietnam in late February for a second summit, with the goal of ending a nuclear standoff between the two countries.

After the first meeting between the two leaders in Singapore in the summer of 2018,...

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Satellites reveal a new view of Earth’s water from space

  • Written by Tamlin M. Pavelsky, Associate Professor of Global Hydrology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Zambezi river delta, snapped by Landsat 8 in March 2018.NASA

In 1889, near the remote border town of Embudo, New Mexico, John Wesley Powell, the famous explorer of the Grand Canyon and second head of the U.S. Geological Survey, started a quiet scientific revolution.

He knew that water would be increasingly important to the American West, but no one...

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Why the pope's upcoming summit needs to do a full accounting of the cover-up of sexual abuse

  • Written by Timothy D. Lytton, Distinguished University Professor & Professor of Law, Georgia State University
Pope Francis sits during the traditional greetings to the Roman Curia at the Vatican in December 2018. Filippo Monteforte/Pool Photo via AP

Pope Francis is gathering 200 bishops and heads of religious orders from around the world for a global summit in Rome to discuss the crisis facing the Catholic Church over sexual abuse scandals.

The meeting...

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How urban agriculture can improve food security in US cities

  • Written by Miguel Altieri, Professor of Agroecology, University of California, Berkeley
City Farm is a working sustainable farm that has operated in Chicago for over 30 years.Linda from Chicago/Wikimedia, CC BY

During the partial federal shutdown in December 2018 and January 2019, news reports showed furloughed government workers standing in line for donated meals. These images were reminders that for an estimated one out of eight...

Read more: How urban agriculture can improve food security in US cities

Ivanka and her tower of crumbs

  • Written by Preminda Jacob, Associate Professor of Art History and Museum Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Artist Jennifer Rubell hired a model to vacuum for two hours each night from Feb. 1 to Feb. 17.Ryan Maxwell Photography

For two hours each evening, an Ivanka Trump lookalike has been vacuuming a hot pink carpet at the Flashpoint Gallery in Washington, D.C.

As she appears to be on the cusp of completing the task, spectators soil the carpet with...

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Immigration: How ancient Rome dealt with the Barbarians at the gate

  • Written by Cavan W. Concannon, Associate Professor of Religion, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Wall construction along the U.S.-Mexico border in Sunland Park, New Mexico, in 2016.AP/Christian Torres

A caravan of Goths – the Thervingi and the Greuthungi – were massing along the Danube river, at the border of the Roman Empire.

This was not an invading army, but men, women, and children fleeing the enemy at their backs: a seemingly...

Read more: Immigration: How ancient Rome dealt with the Barbarians at the gate

Confusing and high bills for cancer patients add to anxiety and suffering

  • Written by Mary Politi, Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of Public Health Sciences, Washington University in St Louis
Having cancer is bad enough, and dealing with the costs and confusion of billing systems makes things harder.KieferPix/Shutterstock.com

Weeks after my father passed away from cancer in 2010, my newly widowed mother received a bill for US$11,000.

Insurance retroactively denied a submitted claim for one of his last chemotherapy treatments, claiming...

Read more: Confusing and high bills for cancer patients add to anxiety and suffering

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