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/ 8 months agoArizona’s now-repealed abortion ban serves as a cautionary tale for reproductive health care across the US
The implications of restrictive laws or near-total bans go well beyond abortions, reducing overall access to prenatal care, birthing services, routine...
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/ 8 months agoWhat early 2024 polls are revealing about voters of color and the GOP − and it’s not all about Donald Trump
Former President Donald Trump has made some inroads with voters of color by appealing to law and order, conservative social values...
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/ 8 months agoJustice Sotomayor’s health isn’t the real problem for Democrats − winning elections is
When it comes to the Supreme Court, progressives are now in the position where conservatives found themselves for many years. They’re...
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/ 8 months agoEveryday life and its variability influenced human evolution at least as much as rare activities like big-game hunting
Some anthropologists question how much rare activities like big-game hunting could have affected how our species evolved. Instead they’re looking at...
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/ 8 months agoExoplanet WASP-69b has a cometlike tail – this unique feature is helping scientists like me learn more about how planets evolve
Research on one exoplanet that’s rapidly losing its atmosphere is hinting to scientists why exoplanets tend to look a certain way.
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/ 8 months agoUS drone warfare faces questions of legitimacy, study of military chaplains shows
The use of drone strikes raises a host of ethical issues. US military chaplains − the armed forces’ moral conscience −...
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/ 8 months agoHow 19th-century Spiritualists ‘canceled’ the idea of hell to address social and political concerns
Spiritualists believed that after shedding the body in death, the spirit would continue on a celestial journey and help those on...
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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.
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/ 8 months agoArtists created images of Christ that focused not on historical accuracy but on reflecting different communities − a scholar of religious history explains
Images of Christ often represented prevailing cultural beliefs, allowing onlookers to connect in a deep and meaningful way.
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/ 8 months agoHomeschooled kids face unique college challenges − here are 3 ways they can be overcome
More than 3 million children in the US are homeschooled. Are they getting a good education?
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/ 8 months agoPalestinian writers have long explored the horrors of amputation
In a number of stories and novels, lost limbs represent both physical and metaphorical loss.
