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How Columbus Day contributes to the cultural erasure of Italian Americans

  • Written by Lawrence Torcello, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology
imageA float featuring Christopher Columbus makes its way down Fifth Avenue during the 75th annual Columbus Day Parade on Oct. 14, 2019, in New York. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Every October, a parade of opinion writers, politicians and Americans of Italian descent celebrate Christopher Columbus as someone who represents Italian Americans.

But...

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Nobel Peace Prize for journalists serves as reminder that freedom of the press is under threat from strongmen and social media

  • Written by Kathy Kiely, Professor and Lee Hills Chair of Free Press Studies, University of Missouri-Columbia
imageWhen the reporter becomes the story.AP Photo/Bullit Marquez

Thirty-two years ago next month, I was in Germany reporting on the fall of the Berlin Wall, an event then heralded as a triumph of Western democratic liberalism and even “the end of history.”

But democracy isn’t doing so well across the globe now. Nothing underscores how...

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WHO approved a malaria vaccine for children – a global health expert explains why that is a big deal

  • Written by Dr Miriam K. Laufer, Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine, Epidemiology and Public Health at the Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine
imageA helping hand in the fight against malaria.Patrick Meinhardt/Getty Images

The World Health Organization recommended its first malaria vaccine for children on Oct. 6, 2021 – a breakthrough hailed by the U.N. agency as a “historic moment.”

Approval of the RTS,S/AS01 vaccine, which goes by the name Mosquirix, provides a...

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Biden restores protection for national monuments Trump shrank: 5 essential reads

  • Written by Jennifer Weeks, Senior Environment + Energy Editor, The Conversation
imageThe twin buttes that give Bears Ears National Monument in Utah its name are sacred places to many Indigenous Tribes and Pueblos.T. Schofield, iStock via Getty Images

On Oct. 7, 2021, the Interior Department announced that President Biden was restoring protection for three U.S. national monuments that the Trump administration sought to shrink...

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Yes, the latest jobs data may look disappointing, but leisure and transportation sectors give reason for cheer

  • Written by Edouard Wemy, Assistant Professor of Economics, Clark University
imageAfter recent supply chain difficulties, is there smooth sailing ahead?Spencer Platt/Getty Images

On first glance, October’s jobs report may not be anything to cheer about. Released on Oct. 8, 2021, it shows that just 194,000 jobs were added in the month – well short of the 400,000-plus figure that many economists had predicted.

But when...

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'Truth and Healing Commission' could help Native American communities traumatized by government-run boarding schools that tried to destroy Indian culture

  • Written by David R. M. Beck, Professor of Native American Studies, The University of Montana
imageA makeshift memorial for the Indigenous children who died more than a century ago while attending a boarding school, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File

The National Day of Remembrance for Native American children honors children who died years ago while attending the United States’ Indian boarding schools each...

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Flu season paired with COVID-19 presents the threat of a 'twindemic,' making the need for vaccination all the more urgent

  • Written by Mark S Roberts, Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management, University of Pittsburgh
imageA bad flu year on top of the pandemic could mean trouble for already-stressed hospitals.George Clerk/E+ Collection via Getty Images

As winter looms and hospitals across the U.S. continue to be deluged with severe cases of COVID-19, flu season presents a particularly ominous threat this year.

We are researchers with expertise in vaccination policy...

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None of the 2021 science Nobel laureates are women – here's why men still dominate STEM award winning

  • Written by Mary K. Feeney, Professor and Lincoln Professor of Ethics in Public Affairs, Arizona State University
imageFrances Arnold received the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.© Nobel Media. Photo: Alexander Mahmoud

All of the 2021 Nobel Prizes in science were awarded to men.

That’s a return to business as usual after a couple of good years for female laureates. In 2020, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna won the chemistry prize for their work...

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4 tips for choosing a good college – and getting accepted

  • Written by Timothy Poynton, Associate Professor of Counseling and School Psychology, University of Massachusetts Boston
imageFirst-generation college students have less 'college knowledge' than students whose parents went to college.SDI Productions/E+ via Getty Images

With more than 2,800 four-year colleges and universities in the United States, finding the one that is right for you can feel overwhelming.

The task can be particularly hard for high school students who are...

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Caring for the environment has a long Catholic lineage – hundreds of years before Pope Francis

  • Written by Joanne M. Pierce, Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
imagePope Francis has laid emphasis on protecting the environment, but he's not the only pope to speak about caring for nature. AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino

Pope Francis led dozens of religious leaders Oct. 4, 2021 in issuing a plea to protect the environment, warning that “Future generations will never forgive us if we miss the opportunity to...

Read more: Caring for the environment has a long Catholic lineage – hundreds of years before Pope Francis

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  2. Land acknowledgments meant to honor Indigenous people too often do the opposite – erasing American Indians and sanitizing history instead
  3. The Catholic Church sex abuse crisis: 4 essential reads
  4. Facebook's own internal documents offer a blueprint for making social media safer for teens
  5. Teachers say working with students kept them motivated at the start of the pandemic
  6. Indigenous Peoples' Day: why it's replacing Columbus Day in many places
  7. Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen testified that the company's algorithms are dangerous – here's how they can manipulate you
  8. What's on the menu matters in health care for diverse patients
  9. The water you're drinking may be thousands of years old – growing demand for deeper wells is tapping ancient reserves
  10. Ancient groundwater: Why the water you're drinking may be thousands of years old
  11. What is chaos? A complex systems scientist explains
  12. My Ph.D. supervisor just won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for designing a safer, cheaper and faster way to build molecules and make medicine
  13. First major Second Amendment case before the Supreme Court in over a decade could topple gun restrictions
  14. Facebook's scandals and outage test users' frenemy relationship
  15. Is social distancing unraveling the bonds that keep society together?
  16. Becoming a parent through surrogacy can have ethical challenges – but it is a positive experience for some
  17. As American independence rang, a sweeping lockdown and mass inoculations fought off a smallpox outbreak
  18. 4 trends in public school enrollment due to COVID-19
  19. Winners of 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics built mathematics of climate modeling, making predictions of global warming and modern weather forecasting possible
  20. The 2021 Nobel Prize for medicine helps unravel mysteries about how the body senses temperature and pressure
  21. What's in the Pandora Papers? And why does South Dakota feature so heavily?
  22. The Pandora Papers: why does South Dakota feature so heavily?
  23. Why improvisation is the future in an AI-dominated world
  24. How Theranos' faulty blood tests got to market – and what that shows about gaps in FDA regulation
  25. Century-old racist US Supreme Court cases still rule over millions of Americans
  26. California's latest offshore oil spill could fuel pressure to end oil production statewide
  27. Police killings of civilians in the US have been undercounted by more than half in official statistics
  28. The brutal trade in enslaved people within the US has been largely whitewashed out of history
  29. Why prescription drugs can work differently for different people
  30. Dangerous urban heat exposure has tripled since the 1980s, with the poor most at risk
  31. In cities, dangerous heat exposure has tripled since the 1980s, with the poor most at risk
  32. Puerto Rico has a once-in-a-lifetime chance to build a clean energy grid – but FEMA plans to spend $9.4 billion on fossil fuel infrastructure instead
  33. Cherry-picking the Bible and using verses out of context isn't a practice confined to those opposed to vaccines – it has been done for centuries
  34. How did white students respond to school integration after Brown v. Board of Education?
  35. How education reforms can support teachers around the world instead of undermining them
  36. Five years after largest marine heatwave on record hit northern California coast, many warm–water species have stuck around
  37. Why some college sports are often out of reach for students from low-income families
  38. Tylenol could be risky for pregnant women – a new review of 25 years of research finds acetaminophen may contribute to ADHD and other developmental disorders in children
  39. Britney’s conservatorship is one example of how the legacy of eugenics in the US continues to affect the lives of disabled women
  40. David Chase might hate that 'The Many Saints of Newark' is premiering on HBO Max – but it's the wave of the future
  41. Monsoons make deserts bloom in the US Southwest, but climate change is making these summer rainfalls more extreme and erratic
  42. To swim like a tuna, robotic fish need to change how stiff their tails are in real time
  43. Americans are in a mental health crisis – especially African Americans. Can churches help?
  44. A major new workplace safety initiative targets dangerous heat on the job, but what about chronic heat exposure?
  45. A major federal response to occupational extreme heat is here at last
  46. Britney Spears gets free of father's conservatorship – but many others remain shackled by the easily abused legal arrangement
  47. US Supreme Court gets set to address abortion, guns and religion
  48. Havana syndrome fits the pattern of psychosomatic illness – but that doesn't mean the symptoms aren't real
  49. As heat waves intensify, tens of thousands of US classrooms will be too hot for students to learn in
  50. 50 years ago, the first CT scan let doctors see inside a living skull – thanks to an eccentric engineer at the Beatles' record company