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What is a hate crime? The narrow legal definition makes it hard to charge and convict

  • Written by Jeannine Bell, Professor of Law, Maurer School of Law, Indiana University
imageA memorial to the Asian American women gunned down at Gold Spa, in Atlanta, Ga., on March 18, 2021. Megan Varner/Getty Images

A white man travels to one business and kills several workers. He then kills more people at a similar business.

Six of the eight people he killed are Asian women, leading many people to call for him to be charged under the ne...

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6 tratamientos que reciben pacientes COVID para sobrevivir, de anticuerpos a remdesivir

  • Written by William G. Bain, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
imageNuevos tratamientos para el COVID-19 se usan en distintas fases de la enfermedad, incluso hay tratamientos que pueden mantenerte fuera del hospital.Juan Monino via Getty Images

Hace un año, cuando las autoridades sanitarias de Estados Unidos emitieron su primera advertencia de que el COVID-19 causaría graves “trastornos en la...

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Racism is behind anti-Asian American violence, even when it's not a hate crime

  • Written by Pawan Dhingra, Professor of Sociology and American Studies, Amherst College
imageChildren attend a March 17 vigil at Clemente Park in Lowell, Massachusetts, for the victims of the shooting spree in Atlanta. Erin Clark/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Over the past year, attacks on Asian Americans have increased more than 150% over the previous year, including the March 16 murders of eight people, including six Asian American...

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4 reasons no president should want to give a press conference

  • Written by David E. Clementson, Assistant Professor in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia
imageA president's reputation is safer when he's in the Oval Office rather than giving a press conference.Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

By mid-March 2021, U.S. President Joe Biden had not given a press conference since his inauguration – the longest that a new president has gone without holding a press conference in 100 years.

The Associated...

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'Doing nothing' is all the rage – is it a form of resistance, or just an indulgence for the lucky few?

  • Written by Ingrid Nelson, Associate Professor of English, Amherst College
imageJohn White Alexander's 'Repose' (1895).Heritage Images via Getty Images

The pandemic has either created too much free time or too little. Kitchen-table commutes and reduced social obligations expand mornings and weekends for some, while caretakers and gig workers are exhausted by the constant, overlapping demands of home and work.

It’s no...

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Police and civilians disagree on when body camera footage should be made public

  • Written by Dan Bromberg, Associate Professor of Public Administration and Political Science, University of New Hampshire
imageWhen should the public be able to see what this camera captures?AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes

Many police chiefs and regular American civilians agree that officers’ body camera footage should be released to the public after police shoot someone dead.

They differ, though, on when the images should be made public. This complicates achieving...

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The pandemic recession has pushed a further 9.8 million Americans into food insecurity

  • Written by Craig Gundersen, Professor of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
imageLines outside food distribution centers have become a common scene.Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty ImagesimageCC BY-ND

The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed hardship on millions of vulnerable Americans through unemployment and reduced work hours. And this has increased food insecurity across the nation.

There is no official figure yet for how many more...

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Context influences the decisions you make – whether you're a homebuyer, a juror or a physician

  • Written by Jennifer Trueblood, Associate Professor of Psychology, Vanderbilt University
imageHow might a house that comes on the market today affect what you think of this one?fstop123/E+ via Getty Images

When my husband and I purchased a new home last year, the house we ultimately bought was one we had at first ruled out. While the house had many positives, including being affordable, it also had several negatives, so we’d kept...

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How effective is the first shot of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine?

  • Written by William Petri, Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
imageUPS employees roll out first doses of the Pfizer vaccine at the UPS hub in Louisville, Ky., on Dec. 13, 2020. Michael Clevenger/Getty Images

As the COVID-19 vaccines reach more people across the country, some people have asked: Could we delay the second dose of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines to allow more people to be vaccinated more quickly? And,...

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Closed borders, travel bans and halted immigration: 5 ways COVID-19 changed how – and where – people move around the world

  • Written by Mary A. Shiraef, Ph.D. Student in Political Science, University of Notre Dame
imageMost countries closed their borders, at least partially, at some point last year. But the world is starting to reopenCOVID Border Accountability Project, CC BY-SA

Trips canceled: 2.93 billion. International border closures: 1,299. Lives interrupted: Countless.

After the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, most countries in the...

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  2. Losing cultural context in emergency communication can be a matter of life and death
  3. Jesus, Paul and the border debate – why cherry-picking Bible passages misses the immigrant experience in ancient Rome
  4. Catholic opinions on Johnson Johnson vaccine highlight debate between hardliners on abortion and others in the church
  5. Most couples still make decisions together when they give money to charity – but it's becoming less common
  6. All American presidents have made spectacles of themselves – and there’s nothing wrong with that
  7. 7 ways to avoid becoming a misinformation superspreader
  8. 4 steps to reaching Biden's goal of a July 4th with much greater freedom from COVID-19
  9. Feeding cows a few ounces of seaweed daily could sharply reduce their contribution to climate change
  10. Risk versus reward on the high seas – skinny elephant seals trade safety for sustenance
  11. Making it easier to vote does not threaten election integrity
  12. Only a handful of US foundations quickly pitched in as the COVID-19 pandemic got underway, early data indicates
  13. Why cash payments aren't always the best tool to help poor people
  14. Why lawsuits against the media may not hurt freedom of the press
  15. Wild weather: 4 essential reads about tornadoes and thunderstorms
  16. Selfish or selfless? Human nature means you're both
  17. The story of the Iranian new year, Nowruz, and why its themes of renewal and healing matter
  18. Prosecuting ex-presidents for corruption is trending worldwide – but it's not always great for democracy
  19. Patent system often stifles the innovation it was designed to encourage
  20. Sperm from older rats passes on fewer active genes to offspring because of epigenetic changes
  21. When Americans recall their roots, they open up to immigration
  22. How do mRNA vaccines work – and why do you need a second dose? 5 essential reads
  23. The African roots of Swiss design
  24. Ancient leaves preserved under a mile of Greenland's ice – and lost in a freezer for years – hold lessons about climate change
  25. US could save tens of thousands of lives and tens of billions of dollars with 3 weeks of strict COVID-19 measures
  26. After the insurrection, America's far-right groups get more extreme
  27. Is ballot collection, or 'ballot harvesting,' good for democracy? We asked 5 experts
  28. Resistance to military regime in Myanmar mounts as nurses, bankers join protests – despite bloody crackdown
  29. Federal support has shored up nonprofits during the coronavirus pandemic, but many groups are still struggling
  30. Why would anyone buy crypto art – let alone spend millions on what's essentially a link to a JPEG file?
  31. El Salvador's abortion ban jails women for miscarriages and stillbirths – now one woman's family seeks international justice
  32. Black students have far less trust in their colleges than other students do
  33. Fixing indoor air pollution problems that are raising Native Americans' COVID-19 risk
  34. How do astronauts go to the bathroom in space?
  35. 6 tips to help you detect fake science news
  36. What Alexander Hamilton's deep connections to slavery reveal about the need for reparations today
  37. Hip-hop professor looks to open doors with world's first peer-reviewed rap album
  38. ¿Por qué son tan populares las llamas y cuál es la razón por la que nos gustan mucho?
  39. Billions of cicadas may be coming soon to trees near you
  40. How the Nazis used music to celebrate and facilitate murder
  41. A concept from physics called negentropy could help your life run smoother
  42. At colleges nationwide, esports teams dominated by men
  43. Vaccine passports may be on the way – but are they a reason for hope or a cause for concern?
  44. Dementia patients are at greater risk for COVID-19, particularly African Americans and people with vascular dementia
  45. Holding on to hope is hard, even with the pandemic's end in sight – wisdom from poets through the ages
  46. Bangladesh at 50: A nation created in violence and still bearing scars of a troubled birth
  47. The gender gap in economics is huge – it's even worse than tech
  48. Debunking the myth of legislative gridlock as laws and policy are made in the nation's capital
  49. New Jersey State Police's first 100 years characterized by racial prejudice
  50. Women grow as much as 80% of India's food – but its new farm laws overlook their struggles