Who pays and who benefits from a massive expansion of solar power?
Electricity generation produces a quarter of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions that drive climate change. The electric grid also is highly …
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Use of HIV prevention treatments is very low among Southern Black gay men
The big ideaUse of antiretroviral treatments to prevent HIV infection – called pre-exposure prophylaxis or PrEP – is very low …
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How a Supreme Court decision limiting access to abortion could harm the economy and women’s well-being
The Supreme Court on Dec. 1, 2021, heard oral arguments in a case that may result in a ruling that …
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The Brutal Trade In Enslaved People Within The US Has Been Largely Whitewashed Out Of History
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What Harvard’s humanist chaplain shows about atheism in America
At the end of August 2021, Harvard University’s organization of chaplains unanimously elected Greg Epstein as president. Epstein – the …
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Facebook has known for a year and a half that Instagram is bad for teens despite claiming otherwise – here are the harms researchers have been documenting for years
Facebook officials had internal research in March 2020 showing that Instagram – the social media platform most used by adolescents …
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Why Ben & Jerry’s decision to stop selling ice cream in the West Bank rattled Israel
In 2018, I was living in Israel while researching a book about the country’s fight against groups that challenge its …
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Fight for control threatens to destabilize and fragment the internet
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The US withdraws from Afghanistan after 20 years of war: 4 questions about this historic moment
Mark R. Jacobson, a foreign policy expert at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, served in Afghanistan as a reserve …
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What everyone should know about Reconstruction 150 years after the 15th Amendment’s ratification
I’ll never forget a student’s response when I asked during a middle school social studies class what they knew about …
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Think US evangelicals are dying out? Well, define evangelicalism …
The death spiral of evangelicalism has long been written about in both the religious and mainstream press. The assumption is …
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Oregon just decriminalized all drugs – here’s why voters passed this groundbreaking reform
Oregon became the first state in the United States to decriminalize the possession of all drugs on Nov. 3, 2020.Measure …
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Why is it so hard for atheists to get voted into Congress?
Every election cycle has its “firsts.” This year, the selection of Kamala Harris as Joe Biden’s running mate presented the …
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Why police unions are not part of the American labor movement
In the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer, news reports have suggested that …
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Race and class can color teachers’ digital expectations for their students – with white students getting more encouragement
Schools that rely on remote learning during the pandemic are trying to ensure that all kids have the devices and …