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Overcrowded US national parks need a reservation system

  • Written by Michael Childers, Assistant Professor of History, Colorado State University
imageTraffic at the south entrance to Yellowstone National Park on Aug. 20, 2015.Neal Herbert, NPS/Flickr

If you’re headed out into the wild this summer, you may need to jump online and book a reservation before you go. For the second consecutive year, reservations are required to visit Yosemite, Rocky Mountain and Glacier national parks. Other...

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Congress can't do much about fixing local police – but it can tie strings to federal grants

  • Written by Alexis Karteron, Associate Professor of Law, Rutgers University - Newark
imageLegislation pending in Congress would contribute to reforming how police conduct themselves -- but there's a limit to what federal legislation can do.Seth Herald / AFP/Getty Images

Since the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and massive protests in 2020 in response to the murder of George Floyd, there has been widespread interest in the...

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How a national student database could cheapen the college experience

  • Written by Nicholas Tampio, Professor of Political Science, Fordham University
imageThe proposed database would focus on income. Andy Sacks/Getty Images

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has proposed that the federal government create a database that includes information on outcomes for individual college graduates, such as how much money they earn after they get a degree in a particular major. That’s according to a repor...

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Trans kids in the US were seeking treatment decades before today's political battles over access to health care

  • Written by Jules Gill-Peterson, Associate Professor of English and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, University of Pittsburgh
image'Boy Wearing a Wig,' Wilhelm von Gloeden (1900).Wikimedia Commons

In 1942, a 17-year-old transgender girl named Lane visited a doctor in her Missouri hometown with her parents. Lane had known that she was a girl from a very young age, but fights with her parents over her transness had made it difficult for her to live comfortably and openly during...

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How women in the Southern Baptist Convention have fought for decades to be ordained

  • Written by Susan M. Shaw, Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Oregon State University
imageSouthern Baptist Convention leaders believe women's ordination violates biblical teaching. Women have long protested against such views.AP Photo/Julie Bennett

When leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention meet during their annual gathering in Nashville, Tennessee, in June 2021, the issue of three women being ordained to ministry will likely be an...

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How to 'build back better' health habits after the pandemic year

  • Written by Claudia Finkelstein, Associate Professor of Medicine, Michigan State University
imagePeople around the country are ready to celebrate.janiecbros/Getty Images

The U.S. is in far different shape today than it was last Memorial Day, and many Americans are, too.

According to a recent survey by the American Psychological Association, undesired changes in weight driven by pandemic stress are widespread: 42% of adults reported gaining...

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Ending food insecurity in Native communities means restoring land rights, handing back control

  • Written by Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan, Professor of Rural Health, Oklahoma State University
imageHandouts from food banks are no substitute for self-sufficiency.Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images

For Indigenous people in the U.S., food is considered a sacred gift. Healthy and bountiful produce is received when we care for the land.

Yet, with one in four Native Americans lacking reliable access to healthy foods and Indigenous peoples disproportion...

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Ex-prisoners are going hungry amid barriers, bans to benefits on the outside

  • Written by Margaret Lombe, Associate Professor of Social Work, Boston College
imageStripped of benefits, some former prisoners are forced to rely on charity.Chandan KhannaA/AFP via Getty Images)

Around 600,000 people are released annually from the U.S.‘s sprawling prisons network.

Many face considerable barriers as a result of their convictions when it comes to essentials in life, like getting a jobor a home. It can even be...

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Going beyond 'back to normal' – 5 research-based tips for emerging from pandemic life

  • Written by Bethany Teachman, Professor of Psychology, University of Virginia
imageYou don't need to pick up exactly where you left off; you can think about how you want your life to look.Thomas Barwick/DigitalVision via Getty Images

You’ve been waiting… and waiting… and waiting for this amazing, magical day when you could return to “normal life.”

For many people in the U.S., it feels like that dim...

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Japanese American soldiers in World War II fought the Axis abroad and racial prejudice at home

  • Written by Susan H. Kamei, Lecturer in History; Managing Director of the Spatial Sciences Institute, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
imageSoldiers of the Japanese American 442nd Regimental Combat Team in Bruyères, France.U.S. Army Signal Corps via Wikimedia Commons

Imagine being forced from your home by the government, being imprisoned in a detention camp under armed guards and behind barbed wire – and then being required to join the military to fight for the nation that...

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