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Time to cook is a luxury many families don't have

  • Written by Joslyn Brenton, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Ithaca College
Getting a healthy meal on the table every night is a challenge for many mothers. ESB Professional/Shutterstock.com

Have Americans forgotten how to cook? Many lament the fact that Americans spend less time cooking than they did in previous generations. Whereas women spent nearly two hours a day in the kitchen in 1965, they spent a little less than...

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Facebook claims Libra offers economic empowerment to billions – an economist is skeptical

  • Written by Jay L. Zagorsky, Senior lecturer, Boston University

Facebook is joining the cryptocurrency craze. Should we be concerned?

The social network site on June 18 said it’s launching a new cryptocurrency called Libra with the help of 27 partners, including MasterCard, Visa, ebay and Uber.

In simple terms, Libra is meant to replace the paper bills in your wallet or purse with a digital equivalent....

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With cryptocurrency launch, Facebook sets its path toward becoming an independent nation

  • Written by Jennifer Grygiel, Assistant Professor of Communications (Social Media) & Magazine, News and Digital Journalism, Syracuse University
The world's newest country?railway fx/Shutterstock.com

Facebook has announced a plan to launch a new cryptocurrency named the Libra, adding another layer to its efforts to dominate global communications and business. Backed by huge finance and technology companies including Visa, Spotify, eBay, PayPal and Uber – plus a ready-made user base of...

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Nuclear weapons and Iran's uranium enrichment program: 4 questions answered

  • Written by Miles A. Pomper, Senior Fellow, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Middlebury
United Nations Security Council members listen to Iranian Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations Eshagh Al-Habib, left, during a meeting on Iran's compliance with the 2015 nuclear agreement, Dec. 12, 2018, at UN headquarters. AP Photo/Mary Altaffer

Editor’s note: Iranian leaders have threatened to withdraw from a 2015 agreement that limits...

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American giving lost some ground in 2018 amid tax changes and stock market losses

  • Written by Una Osili, Professor, Economics and Philanthropic Studies; Associate Dean for Research and International Programs, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, IUPUI

The sweeping tax reforms that took effect in 2018 meant fewer Americans could itemize their taxes and benefit from the charitable deduction.

Has that brought about any dramatic changes in charitable giving?

We are the lead researcher and an author of Giving USA 2019: The Annual Report on Philanthropy for the Year 2018, which the Giving USA...

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Sleep training for your kids: Why and how it works

  • Written by Ryan Anderson, Researcher, Child Psychology, University of Pittsburgh
Getting a baby to fall asleep can be exhausting.Marcos Mesa Sam Wordley/Shutterstock.com

For thousands of years, mothers have sung lullabies to help their babies and children fall asleep. In more recent times, gadgets and devices have been invented and marketed to help the tired child – and weary parent.

One of these devices has been linked in...

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Detaining refugee children at military bases may sound un-American, but it's been done before

  • Written by Jana Lipman, Associate Professor of History, Tulane University
Children line up to enter a tent at the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children in Homestead, Fla., Feb. 19, 2019.AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee

Fort Sill, an army base in Oklahoma, will soon become a refugee camp. The Department of Health and Human Services expects the repurposed military facility to house up to 1,400 unaccompanied migrant...

Read more: Detaining refugee children at military bases may sound un-American, but it's been done before

The Supreme Court's Virginia uranium ruling hints at the limits of federal power

  • Written by Cale Jaffe, Assistant Professor of Law and Director, Environmental and Regulatory Law Clinic, University of Virginia
Many Virginians back the decades-old moratorium.AP Photo/Steve Helber

Virginia has the authority to ban uranium mining under state law, even as the federal government regulates the processing of nuclear fuel under the Atomic Energy Act, the Supreme Court has ruled.

Neil Gorsuch, joined by the court’s longest-serving and newest conservatives...

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Mass protests protect Hong Kong's legal autonomy from China – for now

  • Written by Kelly Chernin, Research Assistant Professor, Appalachian State University

Protesters in Hong Kong have achieved a major victory in their fight to protect their legal system from Chinese interference.

On June 15, in response to massive popular resistance, Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced she would suspend a vote on a proposed new law that would allow China to extradite suspects accused of certain crimes and prosecute...

Read more: Mass protests protect Hong Kong's legal autonomy from China – for now

Thousands of asylum seekers left waiting at the US-Mexico border

  • Written by Savitri Arvey, Graduate Student Researcher at the Center for US-Mexican Studies, University of California San Diego
The U.S.-Mexico border, between San Diego and Calexico, California.Savitri Arvey, CC BY-SA

Over the past three months, the number of Central Americans arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border has jumped exponentially, and total border crossings have reached levels last seen in 2006.

Yet, while the number of families arriving between official border...

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  2. Most US drug arrests involve a gram or less
  3. No African American has won statewide office in Mississippi in 129 years – here's why
  4. The Trebek effect: The benefits of well wishes
  5. Fathers need to care for themselves as well as their kids – but often don't
  6. Divorced dads often dissed by schools
  7. When America had an open prison – the story of Kenyon Scudder and his 'prison without walls'
  8. Americans don't agree on whether the poor should chip in or do work in exchange for aid
  9. How an aid gusher helped and hurt Liberia
  10. Elder abuse increasing, without increased awareness
  11. Maryland has created a truth commission on lynchings – can it deliver?
  12. Seaweed and sea slugs rely on toxic bacteria to defend against predators
  13. Who’s your daddy? Don’t ask a DNA test
  14. European elections suggest US shouldn't be complacent in 2020
  15. Consumer genetic testing customers stretch their DNA data further with third-party interpretation websites
  16. What does the Trump administration want from Iran?
  17. For some, self-tracking means more than self-help
  18. How to handle raccoons, snakes and other critters in your yard (hint: not with a thermos)
  19. 'I still get tweets to go back in the kitchen' – the enduring power of sexism in sports media
  20. Rapid DNA analysis helps diagnose mystery diseases
  21. Fed’s dilemma: Inflation is healthy for the economy – but too much can trigger a recession
  22. Inflation is healthy for the economy – but too much can trigger a recession
  23. Food label nutrition facts matter to you, but don't tell you much about your gut microbes
  24. What the ban on gene-edited babies means for family planning
  25. What Orwell's '1984' tells us about today's world, 70 years after it was published
  26. Companies' self-regulation doesn't have to be bad for the public
  27. Could a weakening US economy imperil Trump's trade war against China?
  28. A growing source of Canadian asylum-seekers: US citizens whose parents were born elsewhere
  29. The Defense Department is worried about climate change – and also a huge carbon emitter
  30. The 25th Amendment wouldn’t work to dump Trump
  31. Artificial intelligence-enhanced journalism offers a glimpse of the future of the knowledge economy
  32. E-cig companies use cartoon characters as logos, and new study shows it works
  33. 23% of young black women now identify as bisexual
  34. Minorities face more obstacles to a lifesaving organ transplant
  35. Why Sudan's deadly crackdown on protesters could escalate in coming weeks
  36. Migrants will pay the price of Mexico's tariff deal with Trump
  37. Investigating the investigative reporters: Bad news from Down Under
  38. The struggle to find silence in the ancient monastic world – and now
  39. What advice articles miss about 'summer loss'
  40. The most unpopular presidential election winner ever could win again in 2020
  41. Driverless cars are going to disrupt the airline industry
  42. Trophies made from human skulls hint at regional conflicts around the time of Maya civilization's mysterious collapse
  43. A concise history of the US abortion debate
  44. May jobs report suggests a slowing economy – and possibly an imminent interest rate cut
  45. Climate change alters what's possible in restoring Florida's Everglades
  46. Forget lower jobs growth, the number of people who've stopped looking for work is much more worrisome
  47. Are brain games mostly BS?
  48. School vouchers expand despite evidence of negative effects
  49. How the 'good guy with a gun' became a deadly American fantasy
  50. Convicts are returning to farming – anti-immigrant policies are the reason