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The Conversation USA

The behind-the-scenes people and organizations connecting science and decision-making

  • Written by Stephen Posner, Director of Policy, University of Vermont
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The role of science in society has never been more important. Scientific perspectives are critical for understanding complex issues such as the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, access to higher...

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  3. Why choosing the next dalai lama will be a religious – as well as a political – issue
  4. How the billions MacKenzie Scott is giving to colleges attended by students of color will help everyone in America
  5. Gifted education programs don't benefit Black students like they do white students
  6. 'Wrong number? Let's chat' Maasai herders in East Africa use misdials to make connections
  7. Yellowstone is losing its snow as the climate warms, and that means widespread problems for water and wildlife
  8. Despite outrage, new state voting laws don't spell democracy's end – but there are some threats
  9. How gay neighborhoods used the traumas of HIV to help American cities fight coronavirus
  10. For flood-prone cities, seawalls raise as many questions as they answer
  11. Transgender medicine – what care looks like, who seeks it out and what's still unknown: 3 essential reads
  12. The FDA’s weak drug manufacturing oversight is a potentially deadly problem
  13. Flawed data led to findings of a connection between time spent on devices and mental health problems – new research
  14. How Vladimir Putin uses natural gas to exert Russian influence and punish his enemies
  15. Biden's goal to permanently boost support for families echoes a failed Nixon proposal from 50 years ago – will it take off this time?
  16. I have city kids make comic books to create a buzz about mosquitoes and ecology
  17. What is the religious exemption to Title IX and what's at stake in LGBTQ students' legal challenge
  18. Global herd immunity remains out of reach because of inequitable vaccine distribution – 99% of people in poor countries are unvaccinated
  19. 'Upcycling' promises to turn food waste into your next meal
  20. Explorer Robert Ballard's memoir finds shipwrecks and strange life forms in the ocean's darkest reaches
  21. White Gen X and millennial evangelicals are losing faith in the conservative culture wars
  22. The gas tax's tortured history shows how hard it is to fund new infrastructure
  23. US third parties can rein in the extremism of the two-party system
  24. Critical race theory sparks activism in students
  25. The surface of Venus is cracked and moves like ice floating on the ocean – likely due to tectonic activity
  26. What's behind the rising profile of transgender kids? 3 essential reads
  27. Why gain-of-function research matters
  28. As urban life resumes, can US cities avert gridlock?
  29. What's next for health care reform after the Supreme Court rejects ACA's most recent challenge
  30. Does outer space end – or go on forever?
  31. How to consume news while maintaining your sanity
  32. The dip in the US birthrate isn't a crisis, but the fall in immigration may be
  33. 'Managed retreat' done right can reinvent cities so they're better for everyone – and avoid harm from flooding, heat and fires
  34. This tiny minority of Iraqis follows an ancient Gnostic religion – and there's a chance they could be your neighbors too
  35. 4 ways to get more Black and Latino teachers in K-12 public schools
  36. Supreme Court unanimously upholds religious liberty over LGBTQ rights -- and nods to a bigger win for conservatives ahead
  37. Federal policy has failed to protect Indigenous women
  38. How Black writers and journalists have wielded punctuation in their activism
  39. Lighter pavement really does cool cities when it’s done right
  40. Academic tenure: What it is and why it matters
  41. Conservative hard-liner elected as Iran's next president – what that means for the West and the nuclear deal
  42. Too few women get to invent – that's a problem for women's health
  43. Young people are eager to have sex, but will post-pandemic hookups bring happiness or despair?
  44. A mix-and-match approach to COVID-19 vaccines could provide logistical and immunological benefits
  45. Being a pop star once meant baring skin – now, for artists like Billie Eilish and Demi Lovato, it's all about emotional stripping
  46. Millions are rejecting one of humanity's best weapons for saving lives: Vaccines
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  50. How Israel's missing constitution deepens divisions between Jews and with Arabs