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Does hookup culture differ on Catholic campuses?

  • Written by Jason King, Professor of Theology, Saint Vincent College
imageWhat is different about hookup culture on Catholic campuses?Boy girl image via www.shutterstock.com

Daniel is “free-spirited and open-minded” about hooking up. As one of the 70 percent of students who do so each year on U.S. college campuses, he embraces hookups and their culture of students having sexual encounters without...

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Once at the vanguard of national policy, California plays defense under Trump

  • Written by Char Miller, W. M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis, Pomona College
imageA May Day protest in San Francisco. The state is at odds with the Trump administration on a number of policies, notably immigration and environment. AP Photo/Jeff Chiu

Xavier Becerra, California’s combative attorney general, has become the Golden State’s face of resistance to the Trump administration’s domestic initiatives, the...

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Trump nods to Cuban exiles, rolls back ties: Experts react

  • Written by Brian Gendreau, Director, Latin American Business Environment program, University of Florida
imageWill Trump's policy put a freeze on the U.S.-Cuba thaw?AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa

Editor’s note: President Donald Trump announced on Friday a partial reversal of former President Barack Obama’s policy of engagement with Cuba. Trump restored travel restrictions and prohibited financial transactions with the Cuban military. Under the new...

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Is lead in the US food supply decreasing our IQ?

  • Written by Keri Szejda, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Arizona State University
imageA baby plays with blocks spelling out one of the most famous formulas in history. vchal/From www.shutterstock.com

The environmental advocacy group Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) on June 15 released a study about dietary lead exposure, with a focus on food intended for babies and young children.

Using a Federal Drug Administration (FDA) database...

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Can tiny Qatar keep defying its powerful neighbors? It may be up to Washington

  • Written by Nader Habibi, Professor of the Economics of the Middle East at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University
imageNearly all of Qatar's residents live in its capital, Doha.Doha skyline via www.shutterstock.com

The recent decision by half the nations in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and a few other countries to isolate fellow member Qatar came as a surprise to many – though perhaps it shouldn’t have.

Essentially, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the...

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How a journalism class is teaching middle schoolers to fight fake news

  • Written by Ed Madison, Assistant Professor of Journalism, University of Oregon

Research last year out of Stanford University revealed that students – from middle schoolers to undergraduates – are easily duped by false information they find online. The study goes on to describe this as “dismaying,” “bleak” and a “threat to democracy.”

These same students are the primary...

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The Fresh Air Fund's complicated racial record

  • Written by Tobin Miller Shearer, Director of the African-American Studies Program and Associate Professor of History, The University of Montana
imageFresh Air host Mark Stucky of Newton, Kansas shook hands with Thomas Flowers from Gulfport, Mississippi, as Doris Zerger Stucky – Mark’s mother – watched in this 1960 photo.Mennonite Library & Archives, Bethel, Kansas

New York City’s Fresh Air Fund has sent city kids, most of them low-income, to suburban and rural...

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Was Trump's 'hope' Comey's command? We asked a language expert

  • Written by Thomas Holtgraves, Professor of Psychological Science, Ball State University
imagePresident Donald Trump speaks during a news conference.AP Photo/Andrew Harnik

Much of former FBI Director James Comey’s recent congressional testimony hinged on a single utterance from President Donald Trump: “hope.”

According to Comey, on Feb. 14 President Trump dismissed the other participants from an Oval Office meeting and...

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Navigating the tricky waters of being a stepdad

  • Written by Joshua Gold, Professor of Educational Studies, University of South Carolina
imageJoining a family can be awkward: Are you supposed to act like a father? Should you discipline the kids? 'Man' via www.shutterstock.com

The American family is evolving. Fifty years ago, a nuclear family of two biological parents and children was the norm. But divorce rates and growing numbers of single parents have opened up more opportunities for...

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In Tupac's life, the struggles and triumphs of a generation

  • Written by Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar, Professor of History and Founding Director, Center for the Study of Popular Music, University of Connecticut

Beginning June 16, moviegoers will be able to see the much-anticipated “All Eyez on Me,” the biopic of Tupac Shakur, one of the most iconic and influential musicians of the 20th century.

Since his death in 1996, Tupac’s place in the pantheon of cultural icons has been firmly cemented. Scores of books and documentaries have...

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