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Local election offices often are missing on social media – and the information they do post often gets ignored

  • Written by Thessalia Merivaki, Assistant Professor of American Politics, Mississippi State University
imageIt can take more than just big outdoor signs to encourage people to vote.Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Local election officials are trying to share voting information with the public on social media but may be missing some key platforms – and the voters who use them.

In early July 2022, for instance, young voters in Boone County, Missouri,...

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When abortion at a clinic is not available, 1 in 3 pregnant people say they will do something on their own to end the pregnancy

  • Written by Lauren Ralph, Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco
imageA self-managed abortion is the termination of pregnancy outside the formal health care system, often with self-sourced abortion pills.Liudmila Chernetska/iStock via Getty Images Plus

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One in three people in need of abortion will consider doing something on their own to...

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Who is Artemis? NASA's latest mission to the Moon is named after an ancient lunar goddess turned feminist icon

  • Written by Marie-Claire Beaulieu, Associate Professor of Classical Studies, Tufts University
imageDiana by Augustus Saint Gaudens, 1928, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.Postdlf via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Artemis I will send a rocket without a crew on a monthlong journey around the Moon. The program aims to increase women’s participation in space exploration – 30% of its engineers are women. In addition, the Artemis I...

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'Smiling Pope' John Paul I takes the next step toward sainthood -- not all pontiffs earn this distinction

  • Written by Joanne M. Pierce, Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
imagePope John Paul I greets the crowds gathered in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican in August 1978.Keystone/Hulton Archive via Getty Images

On Sept. 4, 2022, Pope John Paul I, born Albino Luciani, will be beatified: proclaimed as “blessed,” the last step before being canonized as a Catholic saint.

Elected head of the Catholic Church in...

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A winner is emerging from the war in Ukraine, but it's not who you think

  • Written by Aaron Pilkington, US Air Force Analyst of Middle East Affairs, PhD Student at Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver
imageIn July 2022, Iran provided the Russian military with training for using Iranian-produced weapons, including the Shahed-129 drone, displayed here at a 2019 military show in Tehran.Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images

The war in Ukraine is helping one country achieve its foreign policy and national security objectives, but it’s neither...

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Low vaccine booster rates are now a key factor in COVID-19 deaths – and racial disparities in booster rates persist

  • Written by Andrew Stokes, Assistant Professor of Global Health, Boston University
imageAs of August 2022, COVID-19 vaccination rates in Black and Hispanic people exceeded those of white Americans nationally, but only for the initial shots.FatCamera/E+ via Getty Images

More than 450 people are dying of COVID-19 in the U.S. each day as of late August 2022.

When COVID-19 vaccines first became available, public officials, community...

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What to know about the costs of traveling for abortion care in the US – here's what I learned from talking to hundreds of women who've sought abortions

  • Written by Katrina Kimport, Professor of Sociology, University of California, San Francisco
imageA plane ticket and hotel stay are not the only costs to consider when traveling to get an abortion.kieferpix/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Abortion travel isn’t new. People have been crossing national and state borders to get abortion care since the 1960s, when air travel became more common and affordable.

The number of people who need to...

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FTC lawsuit spotlights a major privacy risk: From call records to sensors, your phone reveals more about you than you think

  • Written by Susan Landau, Professor of Cyber Security and Policy, Tufts University
imageWhere you've been and who you've interacted with are not difficult for governments and corporations to find out.Maskot via Getty Images

The Federal Trade Commission filed suit against Kochava Inc. on Aug. 29, 2022, accusing the data broker of selling geolocation data from hundreds of millions of mobile devices. Consumers are often unaware that...

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How Mary Kay contributed to feminism – even though she loathed feminists

  • Written by Cassandra L. Yacovazzi, Assistant Professor of History, University of South Florida
imageMary Kay Ash's legendary love for the color pink symbolized her determination to be a business success by "thinking like a woman."Colin McConnell /Toronto Star via Getty Images

In 1963, the same year American businesswoman Mary Kay Ash started her cosmetics company, publisher W.W. Norton released “The Feminine Mystique – the book that...

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Amazon, Starbucks worker wins recall earlier period of union success – when Central American migrants also expanded US labor movement

  • Written by Elizabeth Oglesby, Associate Professor of Latin American Studies and Geography, University of Arizona
imageMembers of a union representing workers who clean New York City offices march in 2019. AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews

Tech workers, warehouse employees and baristas have notched many victories in recent months at major U.S. companies long deemed long shots for unions, including Apple, Amazon and Starbucks.

To me, these recent union wins recall another...

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