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Breaking contracts over coronavirus: Can you argue it’s an ‘act of God’?

  • Written by Andrew Schwartz, Professor of Law, University of Colorado Boulder
The NBA suspended its season on March 11, citing the coronavirus risk. A force majeure clause in the NBA contract means players could lose money with each canceled game.AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli

The coronavirus pandemic has prevented countless people from fulfilling their contracts, from basketball players to babysitters.

Could all of these people...

Read more: Breaking contracts over coronavirus: Can you argue it’s an ‘act of God’?

Abused children and family, people with mental illness are all especially vulnerable with stay-at-home orders from coronavirus

  • Written by Chen Reis, Associate Clinical Professor and Director, Humanitarian Assistance Program, University of Denver
The nonprofit International Community Health Services medical clinic in Seattle provides care for uninsured people. Photo by Karen Ducey/Getty Images

How is the COVID-19 crisis impacting the most vulnerable among us?

Tens of millions of Americans fit that description – the poor, the homeless, immigrants, the detained and incarcerated, the prec...

Read more: Abused children and family, people with mental illness are all especially vulnerable with...

2 reasons – and 1 disease – that make peace in Syria so difficult

  • Written by Ora Szekely, Associate Professor of Political Science, Clark University
Displaced Syrians learn about the danger of the coronavirus to them in their camps.Mohammed Al-Rifai/AFP via Getty Images

Despite many attemptsatnegotiations, the Syrian war – a conflict with a complicated and constantly changing cast of characters that has killed as many as 585,000 people and displaced over half of Syria’s prewar...

Read more: 2 reasons – and 1 disease – that make peace in Syria so difficult

Tu cerebro evolucionó para acumular suministros y avergonzar a los otros por hacer lo mismo

  • Written by Stephanie Preston, Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan
APAP Photo/Ted S. Warren

Los medios están llenos de historias sobre personas que dejan vacías las estanterías de los supermercados a causa del coronavirus, y con la dura reacción social que hay en contra de ellas.

¿Se ha vuelto loca la gente? ¿Cómo puede ser que un individuo llene su propio carrito,...

Read more: Tu cerebro evolucionó para acumular suministros y avergonzar a los otros por hacer lo mismo

Coronavirus: social distancing may be a rare chance to get our sleep patterns closer to what nature intended

  • Written by Zlatan Krizan, Professor of Psychology, Iowa State University
Spending more time in bed and letting your body's natural rhythms take over could be good for your health.Stock-Asso/Shutterstock.com

The COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting daily routines around the world. Overwhelmed hospitals, desolate schools, ghostly towns and self-isolation echo a campy horror flick, but an all too real one.

Companies are laying...

Read more: Coronavirus: social distancing may be a rare chance to get our sleep patterns closer to what...

How Germany is managing its coronavirus epidemic, and reacting with disdain to Trump's policies

  • Written by Klaus W. Larres, Richard M. Krasno Distinguished Professor; Adjunct Professor of the Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
On March 29 in Berlin, the Brandenburg Gate is almost deserted due to restrictions on public life. Getty/Carsten Koall/picture alliance

A recent work visit to Germany, where I grew up, stretched from one week to three. Those weeks coincided with the spread of the coronavirus in Germany as well as across Europe.

What I saw while there is that...

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How prisoners, soldiers and Mormon missionaries make the census more complicated

  • Written by Rebecca Tippett, Director of Carolina Demography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Counting Americans is a complicated process.Tada Images/Shutterstock.com

The U.S. census is the most democratic and inclusive activity we do as a country.

For demographers like myself, this once-a-decade count serves as the backbone of virtually every product that we use to understand who Americans are, how they’ve changed and what this...

Read more: How prisoners, soldiers and Mormon missionaries make the census more complicated

National Guard joins the coronavirus response – 3 questions answered

  • Written by Dwight Stirling, Lecturer in Law, University of Southern California
Members of the New York Army National Guard are setting up a 1,000-bed hospital at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in Manhattan.Bryan R. Smith/AFP via Getty Images

As a military organization divided into 50 distinct parts that can be commanded by either the president or state governors, the National Guard is perhaps the least understood branch...

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4 tips for staying connected during coronavirus, from migrants who live far from family

  • Written by Lynnette Arnold, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts Amherst
For immigrants like Juana, from El Salvador, migration -- not coronavirus -- is the main cause of separation from family. Norwalk, Connecticut, March 25, 2020.John Moore/Getty Images

As social distancing and shelter-in-place orders are implemented to curb the spread of coronavirus, ever more people worldwide are separated from relatives, friends...

Read more: 4 tips for staying connected during coronavirus, from migrants who live far from family

What early Christian communities tell us about giving financial aid at a time of crises

  • Written by Cavan W. Concannon, Associate Professor of Religion, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Apostle Paul and his followers collected aid, likely for early Christians.Giovanni Paolo Panini /Hermitage Museum via Wikimedia Commons

Sometime in the late second century A.D., Christians in the city of Rome organized a collection to send to the followers of Jesus in the city of Corinth.

Modern-day scholars don’t know what the crisis was...

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  4. Pregnant in a time of coronavirus - the changing risks and what you need to know
  5. It's a bad idea for journalists to censor Trump – instead, they can help the public identify what's true or false
  6. Preventing COVID-19 from decimating nursing home residents requires spending money and improving infection control
  7. Pregnant in a time of coronavirus – the changing risks and what you need to know
  8. How SNAP can help people during hard economic times like these
  9. Another housing crisis is coming – and bailouts and eviction freezes won't be enough to prevent many from losing their homes
  10. Is the loss of your sense of smell and taste an early sign of COVID-19?
  11. How responding to the new coronavirus is making the safety net for gig workers less flimsy
  12. Can I complain about coronavirus? Why it is OK to vent, sometimes
  13. Stimulus package will remain half-baked unless local governments get more of the dough
  14. We are all humanitarian negotiators now: 3 steps for planning your ‘please take social distancing seriously’ conversation
  15. Society's dependence on the internet: 5 cyber issues the coronavirus lays bare
  16. Auschwitz: Women used different survival and sabotage strategies than men at Nazi death camp
  17. 10 ways to spot online misinformation
  18. Screen time that supports new parents and young kids can enhance family health
  19. Your brain evolved to hoard supplies and shame others for doing the same
  20. 6 things you can do to cope with boredom at a time of social distancing
  21. Perfection comes at a price in latest adaptation of Austen's 'Emma'
  22. Coronavirus: a new type of vaccine using RNA could help defeat COVID-19
  23. The Federal Reserve is promising to do everything it can to save the economy – but what is that, actually?
  24. Labs are experimenting with new – but unproven – methods to create a coronavirus vaccine fast
  25. Buyer beware: Counterfeit markets can flourish during a public health crisis
  26. What 'Walden' can tell us about social distancing and focusing on life's essentials
  27. The fashionable history of social distancing
  28. What does a state of emergency mean in the face of the coronavirus?
  29. What the US can learn from other countries on COVID-19 – and its own history with pandemics
  30. Coronavirus: News media sounded the alarm for months – but few listened
  31. Americans disagree on how risky the coronavirus is, but most are changing their behavior anyway
  32. 5 reasons the coronavirus hit Italy so hard
  33. Video: Why social distancing is one of the best tools we have to fight the coronavirus
  34. Hotter weather brings more stress, depression and other mental health problems
  35. Could chloroquine treat coronavirus? 5 questions answered about a promising, problematic and unproven use for an antimalarial drug
  36. Tribal leaders face great need and don't have enough resources to respond to the coronavirus pandemic
  37. Who cares for those most vulnerable to COVID-19? 4 questions about home care aides answered
  38. Coronavirus fears over farmers markets could hit new growers hard – just when Americans need them most
  39. Why people need rituals, especially in times of uncertainty
  40. In battling the coronavirus, will 'optimistic bias' be our undoing?
  41. Calling COVID-19 a 'Chinese virus' is wrong and dangerous – the pandemic is global
  42. Medical supply chains are fragile in the best of times and COVID-19 will test their strength
  43. I'm a family doctor fighting against fear and struggling with distancing while trying to keep my patients healthy
  44. The deadly polio epidemic and why it matters for coronavirus
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  46. There’s a name for Trump playing down the threat and failing to take action against the virus: Institutional betrayal
  47. Reaching out to isolated older adults is essential during coronavirus – here are 7 specific things you can do, just for starters
  48. Co-parenting in the coronavirus pandemic: A family law scholar's advice
  49. COVID-19 closures could hit historically black colleges particularly hard
  50. Should Congress demand America's youth give a year of service to their country?