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People ambivalent about political issues support violence more than those with clear opinions

  • Written by Joseph Siev, Postdoctoral Fellow in Consumer Behavior, University of Virginia
imageMany people who hold political views are uncertain about their opinions.GSO Images/The Image Bank via Getty Images

Choices about political candidates and issues are inherently limited and imperfect, leading many people to feel mixed emotions, and even conflicting opinions, about which candidate or position they prefer.

In general, being ambivalent...

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Civil rights leader James Lawson, who learned from Gandhi, used nonviolent resistance and the ‘power of love’ to challenge injustice

  • Written by Anthony Siracusa, Assistant Professor of History and Community Engagement, St. John Fisher University
imageCivil rights activist James M. Lawson Jr. speaks in Murfreesboro, Tenn., in 2015.AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File

Rev. James M. Lawson Jr., who died on June 9, 2024, at the age of 95, was a Methodist minister and a powerful advocate of nonviolence during the Civil Rights Movement.

Lawson is best known for piloting two crucial civil rights campaigns...

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Philadelphia’s 200-year-old disability records show welfare reform movement’s early shift toward rationing care and punishing poor people

  • Written by Nicole Lee Schroeder, Postdoctoral Fellow, Kean University
imageDrawing shows men making shoes at the Philadelphia Almshouse, circa 1899.Alice Barber Stephens/Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Alfred Bendiner Memorial Collection

Charles Kingley was a widower and a single father of four who lived in the Northern Liberties neighborhood of Philadelphia in 1829. He worked at a brewhouse but...

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Cities with empty commercial space and housing shortages are converting office buildings into apartments – here’s what they’re learning

  • Written by John Weigand, Professor of Architecture and Interior Design and Interim Dean, College of Creative Arts, Miami University
imageRooftop construction at a high-rise building undergoing conversion to apartments in Manhattan's financial district in New York City, April 11, 2023. AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews

It took a global pandemic to convince American businesses that their employees could work productively from home, or a favorite coffee shop. Post-COVID-19, employers are struggl...

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Spikes, seat dividers, even ‘Baby Shark’ − camping bans like the one under review at SCOTUS are part of broader strategies that push out homeless people

  • Written by Robert Rosenberger, Professor, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology
imageIndividual rules against activities such as camping or just resting on a ledge may not seem like a big deal. But taken together, they make life more difficult for people without shelter.Robert Rosenberger

Should cities be allowed to outlaw sleeping in public, even when there are no beds available in local shelters? This is what the U.S. Supreme...

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Inflation is cooling, but not fast enough for the Fed: Policymakers now expect only one rate cut in 2024

  • Written by Christopher Decker, Professor of Economics, University of Nebraska Omaha
imageU.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks to reporters on June 12, 2024.Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

It was a double-whammy Wednesday for economic-data enthusiasts.

During the morning of June 12, 2024, the Bureau of Labor Statistics published its latest inflation figures. The news was relatively good, showing that inflation rose 3.3% in...

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Microrobots made of algae carry chemo directly to lung tumors, improving cancer treatment

  • Written by Zhengxing Li, Ph.D. Candidate in Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego
imagePart algae, part red blood cell, these microrobots can travel to hard-to-reach tumors deep in the lungs.From Zhang et al., Sci. Adv. 10, eadn6157 (2024), CC BY-NC

Tumors that travel to the lungs, or lung metastases, pose a formidable challenge in the realm of cancer treatment. Conventional chemotherapy often falls short because it’s...

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American womanhood is not what it used to be − understanding the backlash to Dobbs v. Jackson

  • Written by Linda J. Nicholson, Susan E. and William P. Distinguished Professor of Women and Gender Studies and Professor of History Emerita, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
imageAbortion rights activists rally outside the Supreme Court in April 2024. Associated Press

As someone who over the past 50 years has thought about and written many books and articles on U.S. feminism, I should have been less surprised by the strong electoral backlash to the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs V. Jackson Women’s Health...

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There’s a strange history of white journalists trying to better understand the Black experience by ‘becoming’ Black

  • Written by Alisha Gaines, Associate Professor of English, Florida State University
imageSince the mid-20th century, a handful of white journalists have tried to understand the complexity of the Black experience through donning a costume.Reg Burkett/Express/Hulton Archive via Getty Images

A peculiar desire seems to still haunt some white people: “I wish I knew what it was like to be Black.”

This wish is different from...

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