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/ 1 year agoTrump indictment unsealed – a criminal law scholar explains what the charges mean, and what prosecutors will now need to prove
There are 38 felony charges against former President Donald Trump, and while it’s unlikely, he could potentially be sentenced to serve...
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/ 1 year agoTrump charged under Espionage Act – which covers a lot more crimes than just spying
Spy cases are rare. More typically, as in the Trump indictment, the act applies to the unauthorized gathering, possessing or transmitting...
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/ 1 year ago6 books that explain the history and meaning of Juneteenth
Juneteenth is part of a rich heritage of African American emancipation and freedom celebrations.
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/ 1 year agoSupreme Court rules in favor of Black voters in Alabama and protects landmark Voting Rights Act
At a time when state legislatures are enacting laws that restrict who, when and where people can vote, the US Supreme...
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/ 1 year ago‘From Magic Mushrooms to Big Pharma’ – a college course explores nature’s medicine cabinet and different ways of healing
An anthropology course explores how peoples and cultures around the world use nature-based medicines to heal.
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/ 1 year agoThe US has a child labor problem – recalling an embarrassing past that Americans may think they’ve left behind
While Lewis Hine’s early-20th century photographs of working children compelled Congress to limit or ban child labor, the US Department of...
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/ 1 year agoEl Niño is back – that’s good news or bad news, depending on where you live
The official forecast calls for a strong El Niño by winter, but other models suggest it might dip in and out....
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/ 1 year agoMillions of women are working during menopause, but US law isn’t clear on employees’ rights or employers’ obligations
Three scholars who are writing a book about menopause and the law suggest ways to protect women experiencing it.
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/ 1 year agoDrawing, making music and writing poetry can support healing and bring more humanity to health care in US hospitals
Art, music and poetry therapy can help patients feel more optimistic and less isolated as well as to embrace the uncertainty...
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/ 1 year agoNever mind Cleopatra – what about the forgotten queens of ancient Nubia?
The way many Americans think about racial identity today is hard to map onto the complex history of ancient Egypt and...
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/ 1 year agoDo federal or state prosecutors get to go first in trying Trump? A law professor untangles the conflict
If a person – in this case, the former president of the United States – is charged by federal and state...
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/ 1 year agoPat Robertson’s lasting influence on American politics: 3 essential reads
Pat Robertson, founder of the global Christian Broadcasting Network, blended religion into American politics and played an important role in the...
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/ 1 year agoOvercrowded trains serve as metaphor for India in Western eyes – but they are a relic of colonialism and capitalism
A deadly crash in India that claimed the lives of around 300 people has refocused international attention on the importance of...
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/ 1 year agoWhy a federal judge found Tennessee’s anti-drag law unconstitutional
The law passed by Tennessee legislators that banned many drag performances violated the First Amendment. A legal scholar explains the judge’s...
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/ 1 year agoFour strategies to make your neighborhood safer
Crime is spiking and you’re scared. Here are strategies to get past the fear and diminish the threat of crime in...
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/ 1 year agoTitle 42 didn’t result in a surge of migration, after all – but border communities are still facing record-breaking migration
When host communities unexpectedly receive large numbers of migrants, the influx can tax local services – and relations between migrants and...
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/ 1 year agoRepublicans’ anti-ESG attack may be silencing insurers, but it isn’t changing their pro-climate business decisions
A ‘greenhushing’ campaign is targeting insurers, who have the power to accelerate the transition to cleaner energy in how they write...
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/ 1 year agoWill faster federal reviews speed up the clean energy shift? Two legal scholars explain what the National Environmental Policy Act does and doesn’t do
Do environmental reviews improve projects or delay them and drive up costs? Two legal scholars explain how the law works and...
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/ 1 year agoWHO’s recommendation against the use of artificial sweeteners for weight loss leaves many questions unanswered
The WHO report concluded that habitual use of nonsugar sweeteners is linked to a modest increase in diabetes, hypertension and stroke....
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/ 1 year agoWhat is incorruptibility? A scholar of Catholic worship explains
People are congregating in Missouri after news spread that the exhumed body of a nun had not decayed four years after...
