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Very good dogs don't necessarily make very good co-workers

  • Written by Jessica Myrick, Associate Professor of Media Studies, Pennsylvania State University
Working from home involves new co-workers.Halfpoint Images/Getty Images

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us are working from home in close proximity to our human children or fur babies.

Cats have their fans, but I want to focus on dogs.

Dogs are great companions. Science suggests owning one may benefit mental health. Just making eye contact...

Read more: Very good dogs don't necessarily make very good co-workers

Climate change threatens drinking water quality across the Great Lakes

  • Written by Gabriel Filippelli, Professor of Earth Sciences and Director of the Center for Urban Health, IUPUI
Harmful algal bloom in Lake Erie, Sept. 4, 2009.NOAA/Flickr

This story is part of the Pulitzer Center’s nationwide Connected Coastlines reporting initiative. For more information, go to https://pulitzercenter.org/connected-coastlines-initiative.

“Do Not Drink/Do Not Boil” is not what anyone wants to hear about their city’s...

Read more: Climate change threatens drinking water quality across the Great Lakes

Why are white supremacists protesting to 'reopen' the US economy?

  • Written by Shannon Reid, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
Joey Gibson, leader of the right-wing group Patriot Prayer, addresses a crowd on April 19, 2020, in Olympia, Washington, insisting the state lift restrictions put in place to help fight the coronavirus outbreak.Karen Ducey/Getty Images

A series of protests, primarily in state capitals, are demanding the end of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions. Among...

Read more: Why are white supremacists protesting to 'reopen' the US economy?

Kids have a right to a basic education, according to a new legal milestone

  • Written by Kristine Bowman, Professor of Law and Education Policy, Michigan State University
The Supreme Court has long avoided weighing in on this question.Ariel Skelley / Getty Images

A federal appeals court has found that children have a constitutional right to an opportunity to learn how to read.

The decision on April 23 in a case involving the Detroit public school system finally answers a question the Supreme Court has avoided for...

Read more: Kids have a right to a basic education, according to a new legal milestone

COVID-19 is a dress rehearsal for entrepreneurial approaches to climate change

  • Written by Jeffrey York, Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, University of Colorado Boulder
Business closures and recent rain contribute to Los Angeles' recent uptick in air quality.AP Photo/Chris Pizzello

As the U.S. struggles to control the COVID-19 pandemic, some experts have suggested that we can learn something about how to address climate change from this crisis.

Climate and social policy experts are recommending green stimulus...

Read more: COVID-19 is a dress rehearsal for entrepreneurial approaches to climate change

How the Trump administration accidentally insured over 200,000 through Obamacare

  • Written by Coleman Drake, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh
One of the President's moves in health care had surprising results.Getty Images

With an eye on replacing the Affordable Care Act, the Trump administration took one particularly critical action in October 2017. It discontinued cost-sharing reduction subsidy payments to health insurers participating in the ACA marketplaces.

But the response to those...

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3 volunteering guidelines to heed during the coronavirus pandemic

  • Written by Jennifer A. Jones, Assistant Professor of Nonprofit Management and Leadership, University of Florida
Social distancing is easier at drive-through food pantries like this one in San Antonio.AP Photo/Eric Gay

Lending a hand is a big U.S. tradition. More than 77.4 million Americans volunteered in 2019, completing 6.9 billion hours of service worth an estimated US$167 billion.

Today, no matter how well-intentioned, there’s a risk that those...

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3 crisis-leadership lessons from Abraham Lincoln

  • Written by Adrian Brettle, Lecturer in History, Arizona State University
A meeting of President Abraham Lincoln and his Cabinet.Internet Book Archive/Flickr

In March 1861, as Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as president, the United States faced its greatest crisis: its sudden and unexpected dissolution. Seven of the then 31 states had already voted to secede from the Union.

What he did in the following months and years...

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Measuring maternal grief in Africa

  • Written by Emily Smith-Greenaway, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
In places where children die with tragic frequency, the collective grief of parents affects all society.Mary Long/Shutterstock

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

The big idea

Most parents living in industrialized countries today reasonably presume that all their children will survive childhood.

But child death remains...

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Who's at risk of not being counted in the 2020 census: 6 essential reads

  • Written by Emily Costello, Deputy Editor, The Conversation US
A Seattle man wearing a mask walks past posters encouraging participation in the 2020 Census.AP Photo/Ted S. Warren

The census aims to count everyone in the U.S. Of course, that’s not so easy.

Overall, the 2010 census was accurate, with a net overcount of just 0.01%. Still, some 16 million people were likely omitted from the final count.

The...

Read more: Who's at risk of not being counted in the 2020 census: 6 essential reads

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  5. Lethargic global response to COVID-19: How the human brain's failure to assess abstract threats cost us dearly
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  7. How the US military could help fight the coronavirus outbreak
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  9. A global mask shortage may leave farmers and farm workers exposed to toxic pesticides
  10. From pews to patients – churches have long served as hospitals, particularly in times of crisis
  11. Jewish history explains why some ultra-Orthodox communities defy coronavirus restrictions
  12. Coronavirus bailouts will cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars – unlike past corporate rescues that actually made money for the US Treasury
  13. The coronavirus genome is like a shipping label that lets epidemiologists track where it's been
  14. Are people with pets less likely to die if they catch the coronavirus?
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  18. How the Hubble Space Telescope opened our eyes to the first galaxies of the universe
  19. As the coronavirus interrupts global supply chains, people have an alternative – make it at home
  20. Mass graves for coronavirus victims shouldn't come as a shock – it's how the poor have been buried for centuries
  21. 6 tips for parents who home-school
  22. 'Reopen' protest movement created, boosted by fake grassroots tactics
  23. #TyphoidMary – now a hashtag – was a maligned immigrant who got a bum rap
  24. Deaths and desperation mount in Ecuador, epicenter of coronavirus pandemic in Latin America
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  26. Diary of Samuel Pepys shows how life under the bubonic plague mirrored today's pandemic
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  30. BP paid a steep price for the Gulf oil spill but for the US a decade later, it's business as usual
  31. Scientists are working to protect invaluable living collections during coronavirus lockdowns
  32. Renters still left out in the cold despite temporary coronavirus protection
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  34. Why farmers are dumping milk down the drain and letting produce rot in fields
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  36. Turkey releasing murderers – but not political opponents – from prison amid coronavirus pandemic
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