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/ 8 months agoWhat America’s first board game can teach us about the aspirations of a young nation
Few copies remain of the earliest known board game produced in the US.
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/ 8 months agoFlorida’s school safety dashboard helps parents and teachers address root causes of bullying, fighting and other misbehavior
Florida’s school safety data dashboard is one of the most comprehensive in the US. A school safety researcher explains how schools...
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/ 8 months agoCould Biden stop Netanyahu’s plans? A national security expert looks at Israel’s attack on Rafah
The US put a pause on an arms shipment to Israel as it launched a Rafah offensive. This is not the...
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/ 8 months agoWar games risk stirring up troubled waters as Philippines − emboldened by US − squares up to Beijing at sea
US Marines and Philippine forces are taking part in joint military exercises just 100 miles off the southern tip of Taiwan.
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/ 8 months agoAs climate change amplifies urban flooding, here’s how communities can become ‘sponge cities’
US cities are doing green infrastructure, but in bits and pieces. Today’s climate-driven floods require a much broader approach to create...
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/ 8 months agoLung cancer is the deadliest of all cancers, and screening could save many lives − if more people could access it
Stigma, fear and cost prevent many patients from getting screened for lung cancer. This can prove deadly for the most vulnerable.
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/ 8 months agoFuture pandemics will have the same human causes as ancient outbreaks − lessons from anthropology can help prevent them
Human factors − such as how people produce food and how they organize themselves and live together − influence disease outbreaks.
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/ 8 months agoHow to tell if a conspiracy theory is probably false
Conspiracy theories abound. What should you believe − and how can you tell?
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/ 8 months agoVoting in unconstitutional districts: US Supreme Court upended decades of precedent in 2022 by allowing voters to vote with gerrymandered maps instead of fixing the congressional districts first
Historically, federal courts prioritized voting rights and legal congressional districts for upcoming elections above all other concerns. But the Supreme Court...
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/ 8 months ago3 reasons the UAW is having success in organizing Southern workers – with two Mercedes plants in Alabama the next face-off
The Mercedes auto workers will vote on union membership in mid-May.
