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Public transit drivers struggle to enforce mask mandates

  • Written by Stacie Kershner, Associate Director, Center for Law, Health & Society, Georgia State University
imagePublic transit drivers are now responsible for preventing unmasked passengers from boarding and removing unruly customers.Seth Herald/AFP via Getty Images

Many U.S. metropolitan areas report that at least 90% of public transit passengers wear masks while on buses to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

However, some passengers still wear their masks...

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Even before COVID-19, US nursing homes were filling empty beds with psychiatric patients

  • Written by Don Martin, Director, Urban School Counseling Graduate Program, Youngstown State University
imageMany elderly residents of nursing homes are seeing younger patients move in, often with mental illnesses. Steve Smith via Getty Images

One year ago, a nursing home in Kirkland, Washington, became an early battleground for the U.S. coronavirus outbreak. The disease has since decimated nursing home populations – more than one-third of the...

Read more: Even before COVID-19, US nursing homes were filling empty beds with psychiatric patients

Your favorite fishing stream may be at high risk from climate change – here’s how to tell

  • Written by Danielle Hare, Hydrogeologist, Graduate Research Assistant, University of Connecticut
imageStream temperature affects the survival of fish like salmon and trout.Peter Adams/Avalon/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Many of the streams that people count on for fishing, water and recreation are getting warmer as global temperatures rise. But they aren’t all heating up in the same way.

If communities can figure out where these...

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Why repressive Saudi Arabia remains a US ally

  • Written by Jeffrey Fields, Associate Professor of the Practice of International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
imageA demonstrator dressed as Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with blood on his hands protests outside the Saudi Embassy in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 8, 2018.Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman “approved an operation … to capture or kill Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi,” according...

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Pope's upcoming visit brings attention to the dwindling population of Christians in Iraq

  • Written by Ramazan Kılınç, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Nebraska Omaha
imageA mural depicting Pope Francis on a concrete wall around the Our Lady of Salvation Church in Baghdad, in preparation for the pontiff's visit, AP/Photo/Khalid Mohammed

Pope Francis will arrive in Iraq on Friday in a first-ever papal visit to the country that is expected to raise awareness about the challenges facing Iraqi Christians – a...

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Colleges are eliminating sports teams – and runners and golfers are paying more of a price than football or basketball players

  • Written by Molly Ott, Associate Professor of Higher & Postsecondary Education, Arizona State University
imageOver 5,000 student-athletes were directly affected by a recent wave of shutdowns of intercollegiate sports teams.Frank Jansky/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images

North Carolina Central University, a historically Black college, announced in February that its men’s baseball team – which formed in 1911 – would cease to exist after this...

Read more: Colleges are eliminating sports teams – and runners and golfers are paying more of a price than...

News organizations that want journalists to engage with their audience may be setting them up for abuse

  • Written by Jacob L. Nelson, Assistant Professor of Digital Audience Engagement, Arizona State University
imageWomen journalists who engage with their audience often experience harassment and ugly comments.Justin Paget/Stone/Getty Images

News organizations are trying to do a better job connecting with their audiences, in hopes of overcoming the profession’s credibility problems and ensuring its long-term survival.

To do this, a growing number of...

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Forcibly sterilized during Fujimori dictatorship, thousands of Peruvian women demand justice

  • Written by Ñusta Carranza Ko, Assistant Professor, School of Public and International Affairs, University of Baltimore
imageVictims of forced sterilizations protest in Lima, Peru, in 2014. Public hearings to uncover this dark chapter of the Fujimori dictatorship began in January. Erneseto Benavides/AFP via Getty Images

The regime of Peruvian dictator Alberto Fujimori sterilized 272,028 people between 1996 and 2001, the majority of them Indigenous women from poor, rural...

Read more: Forcibly sterilized during Fujimori dictatorship, thousands of Peruvian women demand justice

Scientist at work: Tracking the epic journeys of migratory birds in northwest Mexico

  • Written by Julián García Walther, PhD Student in Ornithology, University of South Carolina
imageShorebirds gather by the thousands at important feeding and resting areas, but how individual birds move among sites remains a mystery.Julian Garcia-Walther, CC BY-ND

One morning in January, I found myself 30 feet (9 meters) up a tall metal pole, carrying 66 pounds (35 kilograms) of aluminum antennas and thick weatherproofed cabling. From this...

Read more: Scientist at work: Tracking the epic journeys of migratory birds in northwest Mexico

Two gaps to fill for the 2021-2022 winter wave of COVID-19 cases

  • Written by Maciej F. Boni, Associate Professor of Biology, Penn State
imageA sign in County Kildare, Ireland. in March 2020. Epidemiologists around the world worked hard to try to stop big parties in the face of rising caseloads of what would come to be called COVID-19. Niall Carson/PA Images via Getty Images

Epidemiologists – like oncologists and climate scientists – hate to be proven right. A year ago this...

Read more: Two gaps to fill for the 2021-2022 winter wave of COVID-19 cases

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  1. How some people can end up living at airports for months – even years – at a time
  2. Most US states don't have a filibuster – nor do many democratic countries
  3. Elizabeth Warren's wealth tax would reduce inequality – the problem is it's probably unconstitutional
  4. The Texas blackouts showed how climate extremes threaten energy systems across the US
  5. COVID-19 revealed how sick the US health care delivery system really is
  6. COVID-19 costs could push hospitals to rethink billions of dollars in wasted supplies
  7. Can QAnon survive another 'Great Disappointment' on March 4? History suggests it might
  8. Tobacco killed 500,000 Americans in 2020 – is it time to control cigarette-makers?
  9. What's in a name for a vaccine campaign? Maybe the end of the pandemic
  10. Why using reconciliation to pass Biden's COVID-19 stimulus bill violates the original purpose of the process
  11. Colleges confront their links to slavery and wrestle with how to atone for past sins
  12. As death approaches, our dreams offer comfort, reconciliation
  13. What the mythical figure of Şahmeran in Turkey represents and why activists use it
  14. What's really driving coal power's demise?
  15. 6 COVID-19 treatments helping patients survive
  16. Why do flowers smell?
  17. What the Bible's approach to history can teach us about America's glory and shame
  18. How Black people in the 19th century used photography as a tool for social change
  19. Ensuring the minimum wage keeps up with economic growth would be the best way to help workers and preserve FDR's legacy
  20. Polar bears have captivated artists' imaginations for centuries, but what they've symbolized has changed over time
  21. A less Trumpy version of Trumpism might be the future of the Republican Party
  22. There was a time reparations were actually paid out – just not to formerly enslaved people
  23. What are phthalates, and how do they put children's health at risk?
  24. Meatpacking plants have been deadly COVID-19 hot spots – but policies that encourage workers to show up sick are legal
  25. Can vaccinated people still spread the coronavirus?
  26. Misinformation-spewing cable companies come under scrutiny
  27. How does the Johnson Johnson vaccine compare to other coronavirus vaccines? 4 questions answered
  28. Alexei Navalny leads Russians in a historic battle against arbitrary rule, with words echoing Catherine the Great
  29. Facebook's news blockade in Australia shows how tech giants are swallowing the web
  30. Deported veterans, stranded far from home after years of military service, press Biden to bring them back
  31. What is fascism?
  32. Audio chatrooms like Clubhouse have become the hot new media by tapping into the age-old appeal of the human voice
  33. What public school students are allowed to say on social media may be about to change
  34. Giving while female: Women are more likely to donate to charities than men of equal means
  35. The exercise pill: How exercise keeps your brain healthy and protects it against depression and anxiety
  36. Many Black Americans aren’t rushing to get the COVID-19 vaccine – a long history of medical abuse suggests why
  37. What's behind $15,000 electricity bills in Texas?
  38. In Texas, price gouging during disasters is illegal – it is also on very shaky ethical ground
  39. AI is killing choice and chance – which means changing what it means to be human
  40. Engineered viruses can fight the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria
  41. Relief or stimulus: What's the difference, and what it means for Biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus package
  42. Black biomedical scientists still lag in research funding – here's why that matters to all Americans
  43. From 'aliens' to 'noncitizens' – the Biden administration is proposing to change a legal term to recognize the humanity of non-Americans
  44. How New York's 19th-century Jews turned Purim into an American party
  45. How Black cartographers put racism on the map of America
  46. When men started to obsess over six-packs
  47. Decision-making experts explain how to avoid arguments over where to get dinner together
  48. Why Black and Hispanic small-business owners have been so badly hit in the pandemic recession
  49. 5 ways parents can help kids avoid gender stereotypes
  50. How Philadelphia's Black churches overcame disease, depression and civil strife