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Transgender homeless Americans find few protections in the law

  • Written by Jonah DeChants, Postdoctoral Fellow in Social Work, Colorado State University
About 12% of transgender Americans have experienced homelessness in the last year.PLotulitStocker/Shutterstock.com

Ben Carson, secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, made news earlier this year for his statements about transgender people.

In a September meeting with HUD staff, Carson remarked that he was concerned about...

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Why Congress would keep working during a government shutdown

  • Written by Zachary Price, Associate Professor of Law, University of California, Hastings
Congress holds the power to propose and approve the federal budget.Patsy Lynch/ MediaPunch /IPX

Unless Congress passes new spending legislation by December 20, at least some federal agencies may need to cease operations and shut down, just as several agencies did for a month around this time last year.

But if current budget negotiations to avoid a...

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US-China trade deal: 3 fundamental issues remain unresolved

  • Written by Penelope B. Prime, Clinical Professor of International Business, Georgia State University
The game is far from over.rawf8/Shutterstock.com

The U.S. and China have reportedly reached a so-called phase one deal in their ongoing trade war.

While few details have been disclosed, the agreement principally seems to involve the U.S. calling off a new round of tariffs that were slated to take effect on Dec. 15 and removing others already in...

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In impeachment spotlight, dueling views of professionalism appear

  • Written by Michael J. Brown, Assistant Professor of History, Rochester Institute of Technology
To some, White House aide Jennifer Williams and Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman are impartial truth-tellers; to others, they are power-hungry bureaucrats.AP Photo/Andrew Harnik

Impeachment hearings have thrust a handful of public servants into the spotlight, where competing ideas about government professionals – variously called the establishment,...

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Impeachment is better than exile

  • Written by Peter C. Mancall, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
President Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One, June 6, 2019.AP/Alex Brandon

When the framers of the Constitution created the process for Congress to impeach “all civil officers of the United States,” they rejected a much more severe punishment practiced in early America: exile.

That threat was real in the early colonial...

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Kids aren't getting enough exercise, even in sporty Seattle

  • Written by Julie McCleery, Research Associate & Lecturer, Center for Leadership in Athletics, University of Washington
There are many ways for children and teens to stay active.Margie Nicosia/Pocock Rowing Foundation, CC BY-SA

People who live in and around Seattle are among the nation’s most active. The region is an outdoor recreation haven for both locals and visitors who enjoy hiking, biking and kayaking.

I conduct research about coaching and youth sports....

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Memo from a historian: White ladies cooking in plantation museums are a denial of history

  • Written by Kelley Fanto Deetz, Lecturer in American Studies, University of Virginia
Jermone Bias and Cheyney McKnight portraying enslaved cooks at Belle Grove Plantation in Middletown, Virginia, a National Park Service property.National Park Service

Fall is almost gone and winter is coming, as are hundreds of hearth cooking demonstrations at countless historic homes and plantations throughout the nation.

Like an automated clock,...

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When Trump calls someone a dog, he's tapping into ugly history

  • Written by Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond, Associate Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, University of California San Diego
President Donald Trump talks with reporters during a visit with U.S. Army dog Conan.AP Photo/ Evan Vucci

The news was recently filled with stories about Trump’s praise for Conan, the Belgian Malinoisused to hunt Islamic State Group founder and leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, alongside his vivid accounts of al-Baghdadi’s “death like a...

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Margaret Morse Nice thought like a song sparrow and changed how scientists understand animal behavior

  • Written by Kristoffer Whitney, Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and Society, Rochester Institute of Technology
Making sense of bird behavior was a lifelong passion for Margaret Morse Nice. AP Photo

The invader, puffed out into the shape of a ball, fluttered one wing straight up in the air. He sang constantly and softly, incomplete songs in rapid succession. The defender, silent, hunched his shoulders in a menacing attitude, closely following every move of...

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Butterfly lovers become citizen scientists by logging sightings on eButterfly

  • Written by Kathleen Prudic, Assistant Professor of Citizen and Data Science, University of Arizona
Scientists can now track butterfly migration in real time with the help of volunteersMara Koenig/USFWS/flickr, CC BY

The Abstract features interesting research and the people behind it.

Kathleen Prudic is an entomologist who studies pollinators. We caught up with her recently to discuss her work as co-directer of eButterfly.

What is eButterfly?

Kathlee...

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