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African-American women with HIV often overlooked, under-supported

  • Written by Thurka Sangaramoorthy, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Maryland
From left to right: Toya Tolson, Shawnte' Spriggs, Sophia Harrison, Marcella Wright and Deborah Dyson. These women are aging with HIV, sometimes with other diseases and always with other challenges.Aamir Khuller, CC BY-NC-SA

The face of HIV in the United States has long been white gay men, even though the epidemic has had a devastating and...

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Stories of African-American women aging with HIV: 'My life wasn’t what I hoped it to be'

  • Written by Thurka Sangaramoorthy, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Maryland
Marcella Wright is one of about 140,000 African American women aging with HIV. Their needs are often unmet, and have been over the lifespan.Aamir Khuller, CC BY-NC-SA

Sophia Harrison, 51, is a single mother of two, with an extended family to support. She has lived with epilepsy her entire life; she suffers from hypertension; and she is a breast...

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US-China trade talks: Will the Chinese keep promises to stop bad behavior?

  • Written by Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, Rochester Institute of Technology

Talks between the U.S. and China to end the trade war appear to be in trouble with the March 2 deadline for a deal fast approaching.

In the ongoing trade talks between the U.S. and China, a lack of trust – key to any successful negotiation – appears to be hobbling the ability to reach a deal. Hence it is not clear negotiators will be...

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Why a centuries-old religious dispute over Ukraine's Orthodox Church matters today

  • Written by Victoria Smolkin, Associate Professor of History, Wesleyan University
Metropolitan Epiphanius, head of the new Orthodox Church of Ukraine, which is newly independent of the Russian Orthodox Church.AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky

A new Orthodox Church was recently established in Ukraine.

Shortly after, Bartholomew I, the Patriarch of Constantinople and the spiritual head of global Orthodox Christianity, granted independence...

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The death penalty, an American tradition on the decline

  • Written by James Acker, Distinguished Teaching Professor of Criminal Justice, University at Albany, State University of New York
George Stinney, a 14-year old wrongfully executed for murder in 1944.M. Watt Espy Papers, University at Albany, CC BY-ND

Capital punishment has been practiced on American soil for more than 400 years. Historians have documented nearly 16,000 executions, accomplished by burning, hanging, firing squad, electrocution, lethal gas and lethal injection....

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How smallpox devastated the Aztecs – and helped Spain conquer an American civilization 500 years ago

  • Written by Richard Gunderman, Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
A 16th-century Aztec drawing of smallpox victims.

Recent outbreaks in the U.S. have drawn attention to the dangers of measles. The Democratic Republic of Congo is fighting a deadly outbreak of Ebola that has killed hundreds.

Epidemics are nothing new, of course. And some widespread infectious dieseases have profoundly changed the course of human...

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Charter schools exploit lucrative loophole that would be easy to close

  • Written by Derek W. Black, Professor of Law, University of South Carolina
Some charter school operators make profits by leasing space to themselves at unusually high rates. By Ilya Andriyanov from www.shutterstock.com

While critics charge that charter schools are siphoning money away from public schools, a more fundamental issue frequently flies under the radar: the questionable business practices that allow people who...

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Trump may seek more punishment of Cuba

  • Written by William M. LeoGrande, Professor of Government, American University School of Public Affairs
If Cuban exiles can sue businesses operating in Cuba, it could affect flights to the country, like this JetBlue landing in Havana.AP/Desmond Boylan

President Donald Trump may soon do a huge favor for Cuba’s wealthy, upper-class exiles, many of whom are now U.S. citizens living in Miami.

Some of them still dream of recouping their lost...

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Indict or shut up: The public may never see a report from Mueller's investigation

  • Written by Stanley M. Brand, Distinguished Fellow in Law and Government, Pennsylvania State University
Will the public ever see a report from Special Counsel Robert Mueller?Shutterstock

Almost from the day of Robert Mueller’s appointment as special counsel, the media and the public have expected that his investigation will end with a report to either the Congress or the public or both.

I’m a law school professor who teaches a course on...

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