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Dorothy Day -- 'a saint for our times'

  • Written by Sandra Yocum, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Dayton
Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, back to camera, speaks with black and white southerners about the problems of segregation during a radio show.AP Photo/H.B. Littell

Dorothy Day died 38 years ago. Her life followed an unorthodox path – moving from rejecting religion in favor of activism to embracing Catholicism and...

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How mainstream media helps weaponize far-right conspiracy theories

  • Written by Heather Woods, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Technology, Kansas State University
Are there invisible forces at work in the world?Grzegorz Zdziarski/Shutterstock.com

Once an anti-Semitic rumor moved from fringe to the mainstream, it took less than two weeks for violence to erupt. The false allegation that liberal philanthropist George Soros was funding or supporting a caravan of Honduran refugees heading to the U.S. spread...

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AIDS treatment has progressed, but without a vaccine, suffering still abounds

  • Written by Maureen Miller, Professor, Columbia University Medical Center

I mentioned to a friend, a gay man nearing 60, that World AIDS Day, which has been observed on Dec. 1 since 1988, was almost upon us. He had no idea that World AIDS Day still exists.

This lack of knowledge is a testament to the great accomplishments that have occurred since World AIDS Day was created 30 years ago. It is also due to an accident in...

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López Obrador takes power in Mexico after an unstable transition and broken campaign promises

  • Written by Luis Gómez Romero, Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Wollongong

Five months after he won a landslide victory in Mexico’s 2018 presidential election on promises to “transform” the country, leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador will be sworn into office on Dec. 1.

The prolonged transition period – currently one of the the world’s lengthiest – has given Mexicans a...

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Most caregivers of people with dementia are family members, and they need help

  • Written by Alan Stevens, Professor of Medicine; Director, Center for Applied Health Research, Texas A&M University
Daily tasks such as cooking and cleaning are out of the reach of many seniors.Nancy Beijersbergen/Shutterstock.com

Family care of an older adult has emerged as an essential element of the U.S. health care system, with 83 percent of long-term care provided to older adults coming from family members or other unpaid helpers. As the population of older...

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Betsy DeVos has little to show after 2 years in office

  • Written by Dustin Hornbeck, Ph.D. Candidate in Educational Leadership and Policy, Miami University
Many of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' policy proposals have failed.Matt Rourke/AP

Despite widespread fear that U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos would dismantle the public system of education, she has failed to accomplish much of what she set out to do.

That is my assessment as an educational policy researcher who has followed Secretary DeVos s...

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Climate change is making soils saltier, forcing many farmers to find new livelihoods

  • Written by Joyce J. Chen, Associate Professor of Development Economics, The Ohio State University
Experimental field of a salt-tolerant rice variety in Bangladesh. IRRI, CC BY-NC-SA

Salt is essential for cooking, but too much salt in soil can ruin crops and render fields useless. According to legend, Roman general Scipio Aemilianus Africanus sowed the soils of Carthage with salt after conquering the city during the Punic Wars. And after...

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America's dark history of organized anti-Semitism re-emerges in today's far-right groups

  • Written by Bradley W. Hart, Assistant Professor of Media, Communications and Journalism, California State University, Fresno
A memorial outside Pittsburgh's Tree of Life Synagogue on Oct. 29, 2018, erected after a gunman killed 11 worshippers at the temple.AP/Gene J. Puskar)

Hours after Robert Bowers allegedly walked into a Pittsburgh synagogue and killed 11 people, investigators told the media that Bowers appeared to have acted alone and fit what experts call the...

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The surprising way plastics could actually help fight climate change

  • Written by Joseph Rollin, Postdoctoral Researcher in Bioenergy, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Over 99 percent of today's plastics come from oil, but new bio-based options are becoming available.Icons by Vectors Market, Freepik and srip, CC BY

What do your car, phone, soda bottle and shoes have in common? They’re all largely made from petroleum. This nonrenewable resource gets processed into a versatile set of chemicals called polymers...

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How a scientist says he made a gene-edited baby – and what health worries may ensue

  • Written by George Seidel, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University
He Jiankui, a Chinese researcher, speaks during the Human Genome Editing Conference in Hong Kong, Nov. 28, 2018. He made his first public comments about his claim of making the world's first gene-edited babies.AP Photo/Kin Cheung

On Nov. 28, He Jiankui claimed to a packed conference room at the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing in...

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  12. Trump, Saudi Arabia and the Khashoggi case: What would Obama have done?
  13. Rogue science strikes again: The case of the first gene-edited babies
  14. The road to enhancement, via human gene editing, is paved with good intentions
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  17. Kim Kardashian West and ecstasy: A reminder of the social dangers of the drug
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  20. Why Twitter's cute, heart-shaped 'like' button is not so harmless
  21. How local journalism can upend the 'fake news' narrative
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  24. Mexico wants internet access for all. Getting everyone online could reduce poverty, too
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  26. Smoking rates in US have fallen to all-time low, but how did they ever get so high?
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