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/ 5 months agoModern-day outlaws, ‘sovereign citizens’ threaten the rule of law
At the core of sovereign citizen beliefs is the denial of the legitimacy of the government. They do not believe they...
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/ 5 months ago1789 or 1866 is not 2024: Why historians have a difficult task in guiding Supreme Court justices as they decide today’s legal issues
Lawyers, advocacy groups and think tanks are soliciting historians’ expertise on the history underlying certain Supreme Court cases. Yet this history-for-hire...
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/ 5 months agoSunday school – Monday through Friday: Oklahoma joins states with ‘release time’ laws letting K-12 kids leave school for religious lessons
The Supreme Court has twice weighed in on ‘release time’ policies, and many states allow districts to implement them.
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/ 5 months agoWhat Frederick Douglass learned from an Irish antislavery activist: ‘Agitate, agitate, agitate’
Frederick Douglass was introduced to the idea of universal human rights after traveling to Ireland and meeting with Irish nationalist leaders.
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/ 5 months agoPoop has been an easy target for microbiome research, but voyages into the small intestine shed new light on ways to improve gut health
Your upper intestine is host to a distinct population of microbes that play a role in digestion, metabolism and immunity.
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/ 5 months agoQuantum computers are like kaleidoscopes − why unusual metaphors help illustrate science and technology
Novel metaphors can make it easier to understand complex concepts such as quantum computing.
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/ 5 months agoAmericans used to unite over tragic events − and now are divided by them
Public tragedies are heartrending events that gain widespread public attention. But where once prominent tragedies often brought Americans together, such tragedies...
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/ 5 months agoSchool interventions offer best shot at reducing youth violence
Kids most likely to wind up in the ER due to violence often have common early childhood experiences. Can schools use...
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/ 5 months agoCentral banks face threats to their independence − and that isn’t good news for sound economic stewardship (or battling inflation)
Monetary policy can be wielded as a tool to boost an economy around election time, which explains why politicians want to...
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/ 5 months agoFrom glowing corals to vomiting shrimp, animals have used bioluminescence to communicate for millions of years – here’s what scientists still don’t know about it
Dozens of animals, some on land but many in the ocean, can produce light within their bodies through chemical reactions. Scientists...
