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Northern Ireland's police transformation may hold lessons for the US

  • Written by Laura A. Weinstein, Adjunct Professor in the Department of History, Queens College, City University of New York
imageOfficers of the Police Service of Northern Ireland redirect traffic around an emergency scene.Peter Muhly/AFP via Getty Images

As citizens and officials across the U.S. consider whether and how to reform policing, they might look to Northern Ireland.

Over the past 20 years, a focused public and government effort has turned police from militarized...

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Rethinking the K-pop industry's silence during the Black Lives Matter movement

  • Written by Hye Jin Lee, Clinical Assistant Professor of Communication, University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
imageK-pop band BTS and their company, Big Hit, have donated money to Black Lives Matter. Most bands and companies in the industry have not made any sort of statements.Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images

As nationwide protests against police violence and racial inequality continue in the U.S., K-pop fans, famous for their social media savvy, are using their colle...

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To achieve a new New Deal, Democrats must learn from the old one

  • Written by Edwin Amenta, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine
imageFranklin Roosevelt and other administration officials visit a Civilian Conservation Corps Camp during the New Deal.Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images

As the United States reels from the COVID-19 pandemic and nationwide anti-racism protests, pundits from both sides of the political aisle have speculated that a new New Deal is in the...

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Authorities are yanking the legacy of slaveholder John C. Calhoun from public sphere, but his bigotry remains embedded in American society

  • Written by Christian K. Anderson, Associate Professor, University of South Carolina
imageConstruction workers extracted a Calhoun statue in Charleston, South Carolina on June 24, 2020.Sean Rayford/Getty Images

When I toured the South Carolina Governor’s Mansion in 2019, I noticed the multi-volume papers of John C. Calhoun on display. It struck me as remarkable that Calhoun’s ideas would be featured so prominently given his...

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Should the president pick the attorney general?

  • Written by Joshua Holzer, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Westminster College
imageWilliam Barr walks through Lafayette Park before demonstrators were cleared by federal police on June 1, 2020.Joshua Roberts/Getty Images

Attorney General William Barr recently announced, late on a Friday, that Geoffrey Berman was “stepping down after two-and-a-half years of service as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New...

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This simple model shows the importance of wearing masks and social distancing

  • Written by Jeyaraj Vadiveloo, Director of the Janet and Mark L. Goldenson Center for Actuarial Research, University of Connecticut
imageHospital and nursing staff wear face masks and observes social distancing guidelines at an event in the U.K.Ben Birchall /Getty Images

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

With the advent of an infectious disease outbreak, epidemiologists and public health officials quickly try to forecast deaths and infections using...

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Rethinking what research means during a global pandemic

  • Written by Ann M. Cheney, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Medicine Population and Public Health, University of California, Riverside
imageFarmworkers are essential workers who must decide every morning whether they will leave their home to work the fields to provide for their families and the nation.John Moore/Getty Images News via Getty Images

The Conversation is running a series of dispatches from clinicians and researchers operating on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic....

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A massive Saharan dust plume is moving into the southeast US, bringing technicolor sunsets and suppressing tropical storms

  • Written by Scott Denning, Professor of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
imageA vast plume of Saharan dust blankets Havana, Cuba, June 24, 2020.Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images

A hot desert wind is carrying a massive cloud of Saharan dust into the southern United States this week. Dust plumes from the Sahara routinely blow westward across the Atlantic at this time of year, but this event is a doozy – by some measures,...

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100 degrees in Siberia? 5 ways the extreme Arctic heat wave follows a disturbing pattern

  • Written by Mark Serreze, Research Professor of Geography and Director, National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado Boulder
imageThis Arctic heat wave has been unusually long-lived. The darkest reds on this map of the Arctic are areas that were more than 14 degrees Fahrenheit warmer in the spring of 2020 compared to the recent 15-year average.Joshua Stevens/NASA Earth Observatory

The Arctic heat wave that sent Siberian temperatures soaring to around 100 degrees Fahrenheit on...

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Developing resilience is an important tool to help you deal with coronavirus and the surge in cases

  • Written by Keith M. Bellizzi, Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Connecticut
imageCOVID-19, says the author, has had a significant impact on the mental health of millions of Americans.Getty Images / Jules Ingall

We’re all exhausted and pushed to the limit by months of social distancing, and the recent news that cases are climbing in many states is especially scary.

While you may feel like ripping off your mask and heading...

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  4. Hip-hop is the soundtrack to Black Lives Matter protests, continuing a tradition that dates back to the blues
  5. New York opens traffic-clogged streets to people during pandemic, the city's latest redesign in times of dramatic change
  6. Most white parents don't talk about racism with their kids
  7. Coronavirus responses highlight how humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don't fit their worldview
  8. Prisoners in US suffering dementia may hit 200,000 within the next decade – many won't even know why they are behind bars
  9. Economic policies can induce people to quarantine safely during the pandemic
  10. A selective retreat from trade with China makes sense for the United States
  11. 5 things you should do right now to fight the rising number of COVID-19 cases
  12. What doctors know about lingering symptoms of coronavirus
  13. Why safely reopening high school sports is going to be a lot harder than opening college and pro ball
  14. How fake accounts constantly manipulate what you see on social media – and what you can do about it
  15. A massive public health effort eradicated smallpox but scientists are still studying the deadly virus
  16. 1 in 10 HBCUs were financially fragile before COVID-19 endangered all colleges and universities
  17. Teach police nonviolence, scholars say, and how to work with local residents
  18. Museums preserve clues that can help scientists predict and analyze future pandemics
  19. President Trump revives J. Edgar Hoover's tyrannical playbook
  20. To fight US racism, research prescribes a nationwide healing process
  21. When Supreme Court justices defy expectations
  22. Can people spread the coronavirus if they don't have symptoms? 5 questions answered about asymptomatic COVID-19
  23. COVID-19 is laying waste to many US recycling programs
  24. Islamic State militants incite attacks, gloat at US protests and pandemic deaths
  25. America's Black female mayors face dual crises of COVID-19 and protests – but these women are used to uphill battles
  26. Islamic State calls for followers to spread coronavirus, exploit pandemic and protests
  27. The psychological trauma of nurses started long before coronavirus
  28. Crop pathogens are more adaptable than previously thought
  29. Does coronavirus aid to news outlets undermine journalistic credibility?
  30. 5 reasons to make sure recess doesn't get short shrift when school resumes in person
  31. George Floyd protests aren't just anti-racist – they are anti-authoritarian
  32. Self-driving taxis could be a setback for those with different needs – unless companies embrace accessible design now
  33. Journalists believe news and opinion are separate, but readers can't tell the difference
  34. What some foundations are doing differently because of the coronavirus pandemic: 4 questions answered
  35. AI could help solve the privacy problems it has created
  36. What is the slowest thing on Earth?
  37. Devil in the detail of SCOTUS ruling on workplace bias puts LGBTQ rights and religious freedom on collision course
  38. What the Supreme Court's DACA ruling means for undocumented students and the colleges and universities they attend
  39. Latest legal hurdle to removing Confederate statues in Virginia: The wishes of their long-dead white donors
  40. From grandfather to grandson, the lessons of the Tulsa race massacre
  41. The right way to breathe during the coronavirus pandemic
  42. A field guide to Trump's dangerous rhetoric
  43. 5 ways the world is better off dealing with a pandemic now than in 1918
  44. Holding on and holding still, a son photographs his father with Alzheimer's
  45. Python skin jackets and elephant leather boots: How wealthy Western nations help drive the global wildlife trade
  46. We caught bacteria from the most pristine air on earth to help solve a climate modeling mystery
  47. National survey shows that social service nonprofits are trying to help more people on smaller budgets as the coronavirus pandemic and economic downturn unfold
  48. Supreme Court ruling on Dreamers sends a clear message to the White House: You have to tell the truth
  49. Domestic abusers use tech that connects as a weapon during coronavirus lockdowns
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