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What is child care insecurity? 2 social scientists explain

  • Written by Cassandra M. Johnson, Assistant Professor of Nutrition and Foods, Texas State University
imageChild care insecurity can increase stress and anxiety and decrease quality of life. Damir Cudic/E+ Collection via Getty Images

Child care insecurity is a term we’ve come up with to describe limited or uncertain access to adequate child care.

It factors into many Americans’ decisions whether to even have a child. Parents – mothers...

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World hunger surged in 2020, with 1 in 10 people on Earth undernourished

  • Written by Jessica Eise, Assistant Professor of Social and Environmental Challenges, The University of Texas at San Antonio
imageYemeni children, who live in a hunger hot spot, wait to get food in June 2021. Mohammed Hamoud/Getty ImagesimageCC BY-ND

Nearly 10% of everyone on Earth – an estimated 768 million of us – were undernourished in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted economies, job markets and supply chains and inflated food prices. According to the latest...

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Happy 50th birthday to Chez Panisse, the Berkeley restaurant that launched farm-to-fork eating

  • Written by Paul Freedman, Chester D. Tripp Professor of History, Yale University
imageThe entrance to Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California.Calton/Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

When a small restaurant called Chez Panisse opened its doors 50 years ago in Berkeley, California, it wasn’t obvious that it would change how Americans thought about eating. The first menu on Aug. 28, 1971, was pâté baked in pastry, duck with olives,...

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Cuba protests: 4 essential reads on dissent in the post-Castro era

  • Written by Catesby Holmes, International Editor | Politics Editor, The Conversation US
imageA rare unauthorized public gathering in Havana on July 11, 2021. Some demonstrators on the streets that day chanted 'Down with the dictatorship.' Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images

Street protests erupted across Cuba on July 11, 2021, with crowds of Cubans demonstrating against food scarcity, medicine shortages and economic misery in their island...

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Biden targets noncompete agreements, which restrict the job opportunities of millions of low-wage workers

  • Written by Raymond Hogler, Professor of Management, Colorado State University
imageIt's estimated that over one-third of all private companies require their employees to sign noncompete clauses. wera Rodsawang/Moment via Getty Images

Most American workers are hired “at will”: Employers owe their employees nothing in the relationship except earned wages, and employees are at liberty to quit at their option. As the...

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US immigration judges considering asylum for unaccompanied minors are 'significantly influenced' by politics

  • Written by Daniel Braaten, Associate professor of Political Science, Texas Lutheran University
imageUnaccompanied immigrant minors wait on July 2, 2019 in Los Ebanos, Texas to be transported to a U.S. Border Patrol processing center after entering the U.S. to seek political asylum.John Moore/Getty Images

The news over the pastmonths has been saturated with stories about another “surge” of unaccompanied minors crossing the southern...

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Bans on critical race theory could have a chilling effect on how educators teach about racism

  • Written by Nicholas Ensley Mitchell, Assistant Professor of Curriculum Studies, University of Kansas
imagePeople rally against 'critical race theory' at the Loudoun County Government Center in Leesburg, Va. on June 12, 2021. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

Perhaps no topic has dominated education news in 2021 like the debate over whether or not critical race theory should be taught – or whether it is even being taught – in...

Read more: Bans on critical race theory could have a chilling effect on how educators teach about racism

What is biblical inerrancy? A New Testament scholar explains

  • Written by Geoffrey Smith, Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts
imageMany prominent Christians believe in inerrancy, or that the Bible is without error.Godong/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

In his farewell address at the 2021 Southern Baptist Convention, outgoing president J.D. Greear acknowledged the internal disputes but assured attendees that the Baptist faith continues to affirm “those doctrines...

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Christian attitudes surrounding abortion have a more nuanced history than current events suggest

  • Written by Luis Josué Salés, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Scripps College
imageThe story of Walatta Petros, a 17th-century Ethiopian noblewoman who was later made a saint, shows that Christianity has a complex history with abortion and contraception.A 1721 manuscript/Wikimedia Commons

Opponents and supporters of legal abortion in the U.S. will be watching when the Supreme Court hears Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health...

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25-year-long study of Black women links frequent use of lye-based hair relaxers to a higher risk of breast cancer

  • Written by Kimberly Bertrand, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University
imageResearch suggests Black women may want to be cautious about heavy use of lye-based chemical hair relaxers.ljubaphoto/E+ via Getty Images

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

The big idea

Frequent and long-term use of lye-based hair straightening products, or relaxers, may increase the risk of breast cancer among Black...

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