Lee Ann Rawlins Williams, Clinical Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation and Human Services, University of North Dakota When it comes to mental health at school, typically the focus is on helping students, especially as they emerge from the pandemic with heightened levels of anxiety,…
Diego Javier Luis, Assistant Professor of History, Tufts University One of the most pervasive myths about colonial Latin American society is that it was Catholic, full stop. It’s a familiar story: As history books tell it, the Europeans brought their…
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Amy Fraher, Lecturer in Management, Yale University The aviation industry is still…
Woody Holton, University of South Carolina Editor’s note: Americans may think they know a lot about the Declaration of Independence, but many of those ideas are elitist and wrong, as historian Woody…
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William H. Calvin, University of Washington Heat waves are the leading cause of weather-related deaths in the United States, not the more photogenic windstorms and floods. Hotter summers from climate change are…
Matt Williams, The Conversation The Supreme Court wrapped up its latest term on July 1, 2021, with a couple of final opinions. It was the first session with Justice Amy Coney Barrett…
Cornell William Clayton, Washington State University and Michael Ritter, Washington State University Arizona may keep two voting laws that Republicans say protect election integrity and Democrats believe will make it harder for…
Keith Grehan, University of Leeds and Natalie Kingston, University of Leeds The theory that the COVID-19 pandemic was triggered by the Sars-CoV-2 virus being leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in…
Jerome Morris, University of Missouri-St. Louis Residents of the St. Louis neighborhood known as The Ville have been fighting for years to stop the closing of Charles H. Sumner High School, the…
Daniel Bliss, Arizona State University I have a cellphone built into my watch. People now take this type of technology for granted, but not so long ago it was firmly in the…
David Ryan Miller, Vanderbilt University and Andrew Reeves, Washington University in St Louis In late 2020, President Donald Trump nominated conservative jurist Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court. She was…
