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People are dying in US prisons, and not just from COVID-19

  • Written by Heather Schoenfeld, Associate Professor, Boston University
imageDade Correctional Institution where mentally ill prisoner Darren Rainey was locked in a shower stall and died in June 2012. AP Photo/Lynne Sladky

Randall Jordan-Aparo, Darren Rainey and Latandra Ellington are not household names. But like Michael Brown, George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, they were killed by law enforcement officers.

Not police...

Read more: People are dying in US prisons, and not just from COVID-19

Telework mostly benefits white, affluent Americans – and offers few climate benefits

  • Written by Cutler J Cleveland, Professor of Earth and Environment, Boston University

Back in in 2018 – in the pre-pandemic world – about 5% of the U.S. workforce teleworked from home. That changed dramatically with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic; by May 2020 that number had jumped to about 35%. Tech giants Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon and Twitter announced plans to extend teleworking well into the fall and...

Read more: Telework mostly benefits white, affluent Americans – and offers few climate benefits

How other countries reopened schools during the pandemic – and what the US can learn from them

  • Written by Bob Spires, Assistant Professor of Education, University of Richmond
imageClass is in session in Uruguay, one of the first countries in the Western Hemisphere to reopen its schools. AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico

As American school officials debate when it will be safe for schoolchildren to return to classrooms, looking abroad may offer insights. Nearly every country in the world shuttered their schools early in the...

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How popular culture hobbles protest movements

  • Written by Chauncey Maher, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Dickinson College

In response to the anti-racism protests that have erupted across the U.S., many Americans are saying they agree with the goals of the demonstrators, but not their methods. In a recent Pew survey, 67% of Americans say they support the Black Lives Matter movement, but only 19% think protests and rallies – with their demands to defund the...

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Random testing in Indiana shows COVID-19 is 6 times deadlier than flu, and 2.8% of the state has been infected

  • Written by Nir Menachemi, Professor of Health Policy and Management, IUPUI
imageRandom testing conducted in Indiana gives public health officials some of the most representative and accurate data to date.AP Photo/Darron Cummings

Since day one of the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. has not had enough tests. Faced with this shortage, medical professionals used what tests they had on people with the worst symptoms or whose...

Read more: Random testing in Indiana shows COVID-19 is 6 times deadlier than flu, and 2.8% of the state has...

Georgia's election disaster shows how bad voting in 2020 can be

  • Written by Adrienne Jones, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Morehouse College
imageGeorgia voters brought folding chairs, books, laptop computers and plenty of patience to the polls on June.Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images

As the nation mourns civil rights icon John Lewis, a congressman and lifelong advocate of voting rights, the mayhem in his home state’s most recent election serves as another egregious example of how a...

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'In a perfectly just republic,' Bella Abzug – born a century ago – would have been president

  • Written by Pamela S. Nadell, Professor and Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women's & Gender History and Director of the Jewish Studies Program, American University
imageRep. Bella Abzug, center, with Rep. Shirley Chisholm to her left, join antiwar activists marking the opening of the 92nd Congress with a peace demonstration on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. Bettmann / Contributor/Getty

One hundred years ago, on July 24, 1920, Bella Savitzky was “born yelling” in the Bronx, a month before the 19th...

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Coronavirus numbers confusing you? Here's how to make sense of them

  • Written by Pamela M. Aaltonen, Professor Emerita; Immediate Past President, APHA, Purdue University
imageIn Irvine, Calif., a COVID-19 test is retrieved from a drive-in patient at Orange County Great Park. For four weeks, the testing station will see 520 patients per day. Getty Images / Allen J. Schaben

Turn on the TV news, or look at a news website, and you’ll see charts, graphics, and dashboards that supposedly indicate the latest with...

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Russian cyberthreat extends to coronavirus vaccine research

  • Written by Dorothy Denning, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Defense Analysis, Naval Postgraduate School
imageWho are in the hoodies?BeeBright/iStock/Getty Images Plus

A Russian cyberespionage group that hacked into election networks before the 2016 U.S. presidential election is now attempting to steal coronavirus vaccine information from researchers in the U.S., U.K. and Canada. The governments of those three countries issued a warning on July 16 saying...

Read more: Russian cyberthreat extends to coronavirus vaccine research

Social networks aim to erase hate but miss the target on guns

  • Written by Adam G. Klein, Associate Professor of Media Studies, Pace University
imageImagery and talk of guns can often be thinly veiled forms of threats.Zach Gibson/Getty Images

As Facebook faces down a costly boycott campaign demanding the social network do more to combat hate speech, CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently announced plans to ban a “wider category of hateful content in ads.” Twitter, YouTube and Reddit have also...

Read more: Social networks aim to erase hate but miss the target on guns

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  1. Could employers and states mandate COVID-19 vaccinations? Here's what the courts have ruled
  2. Black men face high discrimination and depression, even as their education and incomes rise
  3. Colleges expect athletes to work but not to air any grievances – here's why that's wrong
  4. New teachers mistakenly assume Black students are angry
  5. How Taiwanese death rituals have adapted for families living in the US
  6. With fewer cars on US streets, now is the time to reinvent roadways and how we use them
  7. ALS scientific breakthrough: Diabetes drug metformin shows promise in mouse study for a common type of ALS
  8. Sexism pushed Rosalind Franklin toward the scientific sidelines during her short life, but her work still shines on her 100th birthday
  9. In Kashmir, military lockdown and pandemic combined are one giant deadly threat
  10. Electoral College benefits whiter states, study shows
  11. COVID-19 has ravaged American newsrooms – here's why that matters
  12. How local governments can attract companies that will help keep their economies afloat during COVID-19
  13. Why Indian American spelling bee success is more than just an endearing story
  14. Mandatory face masks might lull people into taking more coronavirus risks
  15. John Lewis and C.T. Vivian belonged to a long tradition of religious leaders in the civil rights struggle
  16. Twitter hack exposes broader threat to democracy and society
  17. Poorest Americans drink a lot more sugary drinks than the richest – which is why soda taxes could help reduce gaping health inequalities
  18. The long history of how Jesus came to resemble a white European
  19. To reduce world hunger, governments need to think beyond making food cheap
  20. Video: An infectious disease expert explains the results from Moderna's latest vaccine trials
  21. Why Congress can't curb Trump's power to commute Stone's sentence and pardon others
  22. Confederate flags fly worldwide, igniting social tensions and inflaming historic traumas
  23. Pro-choice movement's big win at Supreme Court might really have been a loss
  24. How the coronavirus pandemic became Florida's perfect storm
  25. Ending the pandemic will take global access to COVID-19 treatment and vaccines – which means putting ethics before profits
  26. Until teachers feel safe, widespread in-person K-12 schooling may prove impossible in US
  27. Contact tracing's long, turbulent history holds lessons for COVID-19
  28. Research on voting by mail says it's safe – from fraud and disease
  29. Black Lives Matter, LGBTQ rights, Trump: The risks and rewards of corporate activism
  30. Zounds! What the fork are minced oaths? And why are we still fecking using them today?
  31. Protestantism's troubling history with white supremacy in the US
  32. Ransomware criminals are targeting US universities
  33. How brains do what they do is more complex than what anatomy on its own suggests
  34. An effective climate change solution may lie in rocks beneath our feet
  35. Oklahoma is – and always has been – Native land
  36. A new anti-platelet drug shows potential for treating blood vessel clots in heart attacks, strokes and, possibly, COVID-19
  37. How deadly is the coronavirus? The true fatality rate is tricky to find, but researchers are getting closer
  38. The Electoral College is surprisingly vulnerable to popular vote changes
  39. Personality can predict who's a rule-follower and who flouts COVID-19 social distancing guidelines
  40. The Fed's independence helped it save the US economy in 2008 – the CDC needs the same authority today
  41. With kids spending more waking hours on screens than ever, here's what parents need to worry about
  42. Kids' school schedules have never matched parents' work obligations and the pandemic is making things worse
  43. How effective does a COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine need to be to stop the pandemic? A new study has answers
  44. Federal spending covers only 8% of public school budgets
  45. Through protest and resistance, Lumbees seek to reconcile past with present
  46. A restart of nuclear testing offers little scientific value to the US and would benefit other countries
  47. 4 things students should know about their health insurance and COVID-19 before heading to college this fall
  48. Duckweed is an incredible, radiation-fighting astronaut food – and by changing how it is grown, we made it better
  49. Why does white always go first in chess?
  50. An argument for gene drive technology to genetically control insects like mosquitoes and locusts