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Sexual abuse survivors are voting on the Boy Scouts bankruptcy settlement: 5 questions answered

  • Written by Pamela Foohey, Professor of Law, Cardozo Law School, Yeshiva University
imageThousands of men say they were sexually abused as children taking part in the Boy Scouts.AP Photo/LM Otero

The Boy Scouts’ bankruptcy casecrossed an important milestone on Sept. 29, 2021, when Judge Laura Selber Silverstein approved the Boy Scouts’ statement that explains its plan to exit bankruptcy. That statement includes a proposal...

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How your emotional response to the COVID-19 pandemic changed your behavior and your sense of time

  • Written by Philip Gable, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Delaware
imageIf you had faith in the development of effective treatments, time tended to pass quickly.tolgart/Getty Images

The COVID-19 pandemic, now in its 19th month, has meant different things to different people. For some, it’s meant stress over new school and work regimes, or anxiety over the prospect of catching COVID-19 and dealing with the...

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If the US defaults on debt, expect the dollar to fall – and with it, Americans' standard of living

  • Written by Michael Humphries, Deputy Chair of Business Administration, Touro College
imageWould a default mean an end to the dollar's position as the go-to trading currency?AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin

Congress has seemingly kicked the debt ceiling deadline down the road – but the threat of a future default still exists.

On Oct. 7, 2021, lawmakers in the Senate agreed to extend the government’s ability to borrow until December....

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How Columbus Day contributes to the cultural erasure of Italian Americans

  • Written by Lawrence Torcello, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology
imageA float featuring Christopher Columbus makes its way down Fifth Avenue during the 75th annual Columbus Day Parade on Oct. 14, 2019, in New York. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Every October, a parade of opinion writers, politicians and Americans of Italian descent celebrate Christopher Columbus as someone who represents Italian Americans.

But...

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Nobel Peace Prize for journalists serves as reminder that freedom of the press is under threat from strongmen and social media

  • Written by Kathy Kiely, Professor and Lee Hills Chair of Free Press Studies, University of Missouri-Columbia
imageWhen the reporter becomes the story.AP Photo/Bullit Marquez

Thirty-two years ago next month, I was in Germany reporting on the fall of the Berlin Wall, an event then heralded as a triumph of Western democratic liberalism and even “the end of history.”

But democracy isn’t doing so well across the globe now. Nothing underscores how...

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WHO approved a malaria vaccine for children – a global health expert explains why that is a big deal

  • Written by Dr Miriam K. Laufer, Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine, Epidemiology and Public Health at the Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine
imageA helping hand in the fight against malaria.Patrick Meinhardt/Getty Images

The World Health Organization recommended its first malaria vaccine for children on Oct. 6, 2021 – a breakthrough hailed by the U.N. agency as a “historic moment.”

Approval of the RTS,S/AS01 vaccine, which goes by the name Mosquirix, provides a...

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Biden restores protection for national monuments Trump shrank: 5 essential reads

  • Written by Jennifer Weeks, Senior Environment + Energy Editor, The Conversation
imageThe twin buttes that give Bears Ears National Monument in Utah its name are sacred places to many Indigenous Tribes and Pueblos.T. Schofield, iStock via Getty Images

On Oct. 7, 2021, the Interior Department announced that President Biden was restoring protection for three U.S. national monuments that the Trump administration sought to shrink...

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Yes, the latest jobs data may look disappointing, but leisure and transportation sectors give reason for cheer

  • Written by Edouard Wemy, Assistant Professor of Economics, Clark University
imageAfter recent supply chain difficulties, is there smooth sailing ahead?Spencer Platt/Getty Images

On first glance, October’s jobs report may not be anything to cheer about. Released on Oct. 8, 2021, it shows that just 194,000 jobs were added in the month – well short of the 400,000-plus figure that many economists had predicted.

But when...

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'Truth and Healing Commission' could help Native American communities traumatized by government-run boarding schools that tried to destroy Indian culture

  • Written by David R. M. Beck, Professor of Native American Studies, The University of Montana
imageA makeshift memorial for the Indigenous children who died more than a century ago while attending a boarding school, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File

The National Day of Remembrance for Native American children honors children who died years ago while attending the United States’ Indian boarding schools each...

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Flu season paired with COVID-19 presents the threat of a 'twindemic,' making the need for vaccination all the more urgent

  • Written by Mark S Roberts, Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management, University of Pittsburgh
imageA bad flu year on top of the pandemic could mean trouble for already-stressed hospitals.George Clerk/E+ Collection via Getty Images

As winter looms and hospitals across the U.S. continue to be deluged with severe cases of COVID-19, flu season presents a particularly ominous threat this year.

We are researchers with expertise in vaccination policy...

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  1. None of the 2021 science Nobel laureates are women – here's why men still dominate STEM award winning
  2. 4 tips for choosing a good college – and getting accepted
  3. Caring for the environment has a long Catholic lineage – hundreds of years before Pope Francis
  4. Perseverance’s first major successes on Mars – an update from mission scientists
  5. Land acknowledgments meant to honor Indigenous people too often do the opposite – erasing American Indians and sanitizing history instead
  6. The Catholic Church sex abuse crisis: 4 essential reads
  7. Facebook's own internal documents offer a blueprint for making social media safer for teens
  8. Teachers say working with students kept them motivated at the start of the pandemic
  9. Indigenous Peoples' Day: why it's replacing Columbus Day in many places
  10. Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen testified that the company's algorithms are dangerous – here's how they can manipulate you
  11. What's on the menu matters in health care for diverse patients
  12. The water you're drinking may be thousands of years old – growing demand for deeper wells is tapping ancient reserves
  13. Ancient groundwater: Why the water you're drinking may be thousands of years old
  14. What is chaos? A complex systems scientist explains
  15. My Ph.D. supervisor just won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for designing a safer, cheaper and faster way to build molecules and make medicine
  16. First major Second Amendment case before the Supreme Court in over a decade could topple gun restrictions
  17. Facebook's scandals and outage test users' frenemy relationship
  18. Is social distancing unraveling the bonds that keep society together?
  19. Becoming a parent through surrogacy can have ethical challenges – but it is a positive experience for some
  20. As American independence rang, a sweeping lockdown and mass inoculations fought off a smallpox outbreak
  21. 4 trends in public school enrollment due to COVID-19
  22. Winners of 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics built mathematics of climate modeling, making predictions of global warming and modern weather forecasting possible
  23. The 2021 Nobel Prize for medicine helps unravel mysteries about how the body senses temperature and pressure
  24. What's in the Pandora Papers? And why does South Dakota feature so heavily?
  25. The Pandora Papers: why does South Dakota feature so heavily?
  26. Why improvisation is the future in an AI-dominated world
  27. How Theranos' faulty blood tests got to market – and what that shows about gaps in FDA regulation
  28. Century-old racist US Supreme Court cases still rule over millions of Americans
  29. California's latest offshore oil spill could fuel pressure to end oil production statewide
  30. Police killings of civilians in the US have been undercounted by more than half in official statistics
  31. The brutal trade in enslaved people within the US has been largely whitewashed out of history
  32. Why prescription drugs can work differently for different people
  33. Dangerous urban heat exposure has tripled since the 1980s, with the poor most at risk
  34. In cities, dangerous heat exposure has tripled since the 1980s, with the poor most at risk
  35. Puerto Rico has a once-in-a-lifetime chance to build a clean energy grid – but FEMA plans to spend $9.4 billion on fossil fuel infrastructure instead
  36. Cherry-picking the Bible and using verses out of context isn't a practice confined to those opposed to vaccines – it has been done for centuries
  37. How did white students respond to school integration after Brown v. Board of Education?
  38. How education reforms can support teachers around the world instead of undermining them
  39. Five years after largest marine heatwave on record hit northern California coast, many warm–water species have stuck around
  40. Why some college sports are often out of reach for students from low-income families
  41. Tylenol could be risky for pregnant women – a new review of 25 years of research finds acetaminophen may contribute to ADHD and other developmental disorders in children
  42. Britney’s conservatorship is one example of how the legacy of eugenics in the US continues to affect the lives of disabled women
  43. David Chase might hate that 'The Many Saints of Newark' is premiering on HBO Max – but it's the wave of the future
  44. Monsoons make deserts bloom in the US Southwest, but climate change is making these summer rainfalls more extreme and erratic
  45. To swim like a tuna, robotic fish need to change how stiff their tails are in real time
  46. Americans are in a mental health crisis – especially African Americans. Can churches help?
  47. A major new workplace safety initiative targets dangerous heat on the job, but what about chronic heat exposure?
  48. A major federal response to occupational extreme heat is here at last
  49. Britney Spears gets free of father's conservatorship – but many others remain shackled by the easily abused legal arrangement
  50. US Supreme Court gets set to address abortion, guns and religion