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Why today's long STEM postdoc positions are effectively anti-mother

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imageDoes it need to be so hard to be a mom and a professor?Quinn Dombrowski, CC BY-SA

The fallen leaves remind, once again, that the Hunger Games of securing coveted tenure-track academic jobs have begun. This is my second year serving on the Northwestern University Department of Neurobiology Search Committee, and we’ve received nearly 300...

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Studying gun violence is the only way to figure out how to stop it – but we don't

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imageA protest outside the National Shooting Sports Foundation in Newtown, Connecticut, March 28 2013. Michelle McLoughlin/Reuters

It seems that not a week passes without a new report of a mass shooting in the United States.

The gun epidemic, long simmering, has in the past few weeks seemed to reach a new phase in the public discourse. The shootings in...

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Why Every Student Succeeds Act still leaves most vulnerable kids behind

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imageWhat will the new law change?woodleywonderworks, CC BY

For a decade, congressional attempts to revise the embattled 2001 No Child Left Behind Act – a reauthorization of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) – hit a brick wall.

On December 10 2015, that changed. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), passed by the House...

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Sinatra's films shattered the postwar myth of the white American male

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imageIn The Man with the Golden Arm, Frank Sinatra plays a poker-dealing junkie.

Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday on December 12 is being celebrated with all the requisite fanfare: Alex Gibney’s HBO documentary Sinatra: All or Nothing at All, CBS' Sinatra 100 All-Star Grammy Concert, exhibits at the Lincoln Center and Grammy Museum, a London...

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Scholars: Trump's call to 'ban Muslims' is un-American

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imageTrump calls for a ban on Muslims entering the US.Randall Hill/Reuters

Q: Presidential candidate Donald Trump called Monday for barring all Muslims from entering the US. He previously called for surveillance against mosques and a database for all Muslims living the US. What can you tell us about the history of attacks against Muslims in the US? Are...

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Terror attacks in Paris and California expose modern society’s lack of resilience

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imageOur response to terrorism.Reuters

The terrorist attacks that occurred in Paris on November 13 shattered the complacency of the French lifestyle. A few weeks later, a savage attack erupted in San Bernardino, California, further exposing the vulnerability of Western societies.

Dealing with terrorism and, in particular, with the frightening emergence...

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Rarity of Jupiter-like planets means planetary systems exactly like ours may be scarce

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imageArtist's depiction of the newly discovered Jupiter-like planet orbiting the star HD 32963. Stefano Meschiari

Is our little corner of the galaxy a special place? As of this date, we’ve discovered more than 1,500 exoplanets: planets orbiting stars other than our sun. Thousands more will be added to the list in the coming years as we confirm...

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Why scholars emphasize the need for affirmative action

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imageJustice Antonin Scalia's recent comments have provoked a lot of reaction.Brendan McDermid?Reuters

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, during oral arguments in the affirmative action case, Fisher v University of Texas, on Wednesday, December 9, suggested,

There are those who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans to get them into the...

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How the justice system fails us after police shootings

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imageDemonstrators protest Laquan McDonald's shooting in Chicago. Andrew Nelles/REUTERS

Two weeks ago, the police officer who shot Laquan McDonald in Chicago was charged with first-degree murder. Since then, the police superintendent was fired, and the Department of Justice announced that it will begin a large-scale investigation into the Chicago Police...

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