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/ 8 months agoTrump wouldn’t be the first presidential candidate to campaign from a prison cell
Can you run for president from a prison cell? One man did in the 1920 election and got almost a million...
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/ 8 months agoDid Biden really steal the election? Students learn how to debunk conspiracy theories in this course
A scholar of history of education and American politics explains what is behind his course on conspiracy theories and how students...
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/ 8 months agoPacemaker powered by light eliminates need for batteries and allows the heart to function more naturally − new research
Researchers designed an ultrathin pacemaker that can be implanted via minimally invasive techniques, potentially improving recovery time and reducing the risk...
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/ 8 months agoWhat is the ‘great replacement theory’? A scholar of race relations explains
False ideas about the extinction of the white race, spread around the late 19th and early 20th centuries, gave rise to...
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/ 8 months agoIsrael’s army exemptions for the ultra-Orthodox are part of a bigger challenge: The Jewish state is divided over the Jewish religion
The Israel-Hamas war has fueled tensions around military exemptions, but the issue has long roiled Israeli politics.
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/ 8 months agoWhy do airlines charge so much for checked bags? This obscure rule helps explain why
The answer lies in the tax code.
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/ 8 months agoThe hostility Black women face in higher education carries dire consequences
9 Black women who were working on or recently earned their PhDs told a researcher they felt isolated and shut out.
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/ 8 months agoHow meth became an epidemic in America, and what’s happening now that it’s faded from the headlines
An anthropologist who wrote a book exploring meth’s impact on rural communities explains what drove the epidemic and how it’s changed.
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/ 8 months agoFor-profit nursing homes are cutting corners on safety and draining resources with financial shenanigans − especially at midsize chains that dodge public scrutiny
Owners of midsize nursing home chains drain billions from facilities, hiding behind opaque accounting practices and harming the elderly as government,...
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/ 8 months agoHow for-profit nursing home regulators can use the powers they already have to fix growing problems with poor-quality care
Governments can do more to protect patients at for-profit nursing homes. A behavioral scientist who studies nursing homes weighs in.
