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,…
Linda J. Bilmes, Harvard Kennedy School President Joe Biden calls climate change “the existential crisis of our time” and has taken steps to curb it that match those words. They include returning…
As the Palestinian minority takes to the streets, Israel is having its own Black Lives Matter moment
James L. Gelvin, University of California, Los Angeles The images and reports coming from Israel, Jerusalem and Gaza in recent days are shocking. They are also surprising to those who thought the…
Lindsey Simon, University of Georgia A federal judge in Dallas said on May 11, 2021 that he was dismissing the National Rifle Association’s bankruptcy case after finding that the gun group did…
Debbie-Ann Shirley, University of Virginia The Food and Drug Administration expanded emergency use authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to include adolescents 12 to 15 years of age on May 10, 2021.…
Bart C. Weimer, University of California, Davis and Darwin Bandoy, University of California, Davis Genomic surveillance programs have let scientists track the coronavirus over the course of the pandemic. By testing patient…
Ryan Burge, Eastern Illinois University The lockdowns that almost every state went into in order to combat the spread of COVID-19 in the spring of 2020 interrupted nearly every aspect of Americans’…
William Petri, University of Virginia When COVID-19 first began spreading, public health and medical experts began talking about the need for the U.S. to reach herd immunity to stop the coronavirus from…
Kristine Bowman, Michigan State University With the first COVID-19 vaccine now authorized for adolescents, ages 12 and up, a big question looms: Will students be required to get the vaccine before returning…
Ken Chitwood, Concordia College New York The violence that spread from Jerusalem to cities across Israel and the Palestinian territories, leaving at least 60 dead so far, has both historical and contemporary…
Maha Nassar, University of Arizona The world’s attention has turned again to deadly scenes of Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip and the launching of rockets by the militant group Hamas into…