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Why Jewish giving to Israel is losing ground

  • Written by Hanna Shaul Bar Nissim, Postdoctoral Fellow, Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies, Brandeis University

American Jews donate at high levels to charity. One way they support causes in the U.S., Israel and other places is collective, often through large grant-making organizations.

In researching this organized philanthropy, I’ve observed that the proportion of Jewish institutional giving to Israeli causes has fallen since 2009. I believe that...

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As a young reporter, I went undercover to expose the Ku Klux Klan

  • Written by Dick Lehr, Professor of Journalism, Boston University
Connecticut members of the Ku Klux Klan, escorted by Meriden, Conn. police, run for shelter as protesters pelt them in March 1981.AP Photo

Spike Lee’s powerful new film, “BlacKkKlansman,” tells the true story of Ron Stallworth, an African-American police officer who infiltrates a local branch the Ku Klux Klan in 1979.

That same...

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Following Alfred Russel Wallace's footsteps to Borneo, where he penned his seminal evolution paper

  • Written by Giacomo Bernardi, Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Some of the 'remarkable beetles' Wallace collected in Borneo.A. R. Wallace, CC BY

The chirping of cicadas is deafening, my clothes are sticky and heavy with heat and sweat, my right hand is swollen from ant bites, I am panting, almost passing out from exhaustion – and I have a big grin on my face. At last I’ve reached my goal, Rajah...

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Finding nostalgia in the pixelated video games of decades past

  • Written by Nicholas Bowman, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, West Virginia University
Instruments of nostalgia and psychological well-being?Brian Kenney/Shutterstock.com

Every day, it seems, new ultra-high-resolution video games are released, syncing with players’ social media accounts and ready for virtual reality headsets. Yet old games from the 1970s and 1980s are still in high demand. The Nintendo Corporation has moved...

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Cuatro cosas que puedes hacer para protegerte de la gripe

  • Written by Arnold Monto, Professor, Epidemiology, University of Michigan
Donnie Cárdenas, en la cama, espera con su compañero de cuarto Torrey Jewett en el Palomar Medical Center en Escondido, California, el 10 de enero de 2018. Cárdenas tuvo gripe.AP Photo/Greg Bull

Esta temporada de gripe o influenza ha sido particularmente seria, habiendo provocado varios muertes en México, Brasil y otros...

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¿Por qué los abogados representan a los immigrantes de manera gratuita?

  • Written by Eduardo Capulong, Associate Dean for Clinical and Experiential Education; Professor of Law, The University of Montana
Una madre hondureña y su hijo con un agente de la Patrulla Fronteriza. AP/David J. Phillip

Muchos abogados, asistentes legales y estudiantes de derecho se ofrecen como voluntarios para ayudar a familias inmigrantes que se encuentran en el punto de mira de la propuesta de la administración Trump de reducir drásticamente el...

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Short-term health plans: A junk solution to a real problem

  • Written by Simon F. Haeder, Assistant Professor of Political Science, West Virginia University
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R.-S.C., left, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pictured Sept. 26, 2017 before the vote on Graham's bill to gut Obamacare. Like others before it, the bill failed.Andrew Harnik/AP

After failing to overturn most of the Affordable Care Act in a very public fight, President Donald Trump has been steadily working behind...

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A Texas city discovered a mass grave of prison laborers. What should it do with the bodies?

  • Written by Andrea Roberts, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University
After the Civil War, Texas's sugar cane plantations were still farmed by unpaid black laborers – prisoners forced to work for free in a system called 'convict leasing.' Author provided

When archaeologists discovered the intact skeletons of 15,000 free and enslaved Africans at a construction site in lower Manhattan in 1991, the federal...

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Keeping the electricity grid running – 4 essential reads

  • Written by Jeff Inglis, Science + Technology Editor, The Conversation US
A man reads the newspaper by flashlight during the Northeast Blackout in August 2003.AP Photo/Joe Kohen

On Aug. 14, 2003, a software bug contributed to a blackout that left 50 million people across nine U.S. northeastern states and a Canadian province without power. The outage lasted for as long as four days, with rolling blackouts in some areas...

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What Harvard can learn from Texas: A solution to the controversy over affirmative action

  • Written by David Orentlicher, Professor of Law and Co-Director, Health Law Program, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Top 10 percent policies could help universities such as Harvard achieve diversity.f11photo/www.shutterstock.com

When it comes to the use of race-conscious affirmative action in college admissions, no one seems to be happy with the way it’s playing out.

Opponents charge that taking into account an applicant’s race or ethnicity amounts to...

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  2. Why Native Americans struggle to protect their sacred places
  3. How the media falls short in reporting epidemics
  4. Wildfires are inevitable – increasing home losses, fatalities and costs are not
  5. We are guinea pigs in a worldwide experiment on microplastics
  6. ¿Las noticias te estresan? Estas 4 técnicas de entrenamiento mental te ayudarán a calmar el cerebro
  7. ¿Las noticias te estresan? Estas cuatro técnicas de entrenamiento mental te ayudarán a calmar el cerebro
  8. Designed to deceive: How gambling distorts reality and hooks your brain
  9. Immigration activists fighting to abolish ICE have a bigger vision
  10. Saudi women can drive, but are their voices being heard?
  11. The promise of personalized medicine is not for everyone 
  12. Obesity and diabetes: 2 reasons why we should be worried about the plastics that surround us
  13. A socialist's primary win doesn't herald a workers revolution in the US
  14. The start of high school doesn't have to be stressful
  15. America has 1.5 million nonprofits and room for more
  16. The ghost of Roy Orbison goes on tour – and some aren't happy about it
  17. Walmart tried to make sustainability affordable. Here's what happened
  18. Jury finds Monsanto liable in the first Roundup cancer trial – here's what could happen next
  19. ¿Por qué nuestro cerebro siempre encuentra problemas?
  20. How 'story maps' redraw the world using people's real-life experiences
  21. Profit, not free speech, governs media companies' decisions on controversy
  22. Apple's $1 trillion value doesn't mean it's the 'biggest' company
  23. Why Trump shouldn't leverage the government's emergency oil supply to bolster the GOP
  24. What is causing Florida's algae crisis? 5 questions answered
  25. Climate change and wildfires – how do we know if there is a link?
  26. From breast implants to ice cube trays: How silicone took over our kitchens
  27. Flip a switch and shut down seizures? New research suggests how to turn off out-of-control signaling in the brain
  28. Argentina rejects legal abortion — and not all Catholics are celebrating
  29. Heat and Light: Trailer
  30. 5 autores latinos que merecen ser leídos
  31. For universities, making the case for diversity is part of making amends for racist past
  32. How the federal government came to control your car's fuel economy
  33. The case for boosting WNBA player salaries
  34. The world of plastics, in numbers
  35. How pharmacists can help solve medication errors
  36. How new fathers use social media to make sense of their roles
  37. Who are the Sikhs and what are their beliefs?
  38. Can Trump's White House legally ban reporters?
  39. What is insider trading, the crime Rep. Chris Collins was charged with?
  40. Republicans may be panicking over Ohio's special election results
  41. La raza del asesino influye en la cobertura mediática de los tiroteos masivos en EEUU
  42. Audiences love the anger: Alex Jones, or someone like him, will be back
  43. What elephants' unique brain structures suggest about their mental abilities
  44. Capital gains and why they matter – a tax expert explains
  45. All the battles being waged against fossil fuel infrastructure are following a single strategy
  46. Who are Pakistan's Ahmadis and why haven't they voted in 30 years
  47. Programmers need ethics when designing the technologies that influence people's lives
  48. Your voting habits may depend on when you registered to vote
  49. A night enforcing immigration laws on the US-Mexico border
  50. 5 razones por las cuales la pesadilla de Venezuela podría empeorar, con o sin los drones asesinos