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Doug Hartmann, Kyle Green, and Alex Manning on February 1, 2018
In a year of many big stories both on and off the fields of play, the runaway winner for top sports story of 2017 from the Associated Press was the “NFL National Anthem …
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Dan Brook on August 22, 2017
The growth and development of interdisciplinary happiness studies has been encouraging, fascinating, and useful. However, the flower of happiness is still in bud and has not yet blossomed. When it does, happiness will be replaced with joy. In …
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Greggor Mattson on July 27, 2017
[This piece is an excerpt from the book I’m writing on changes in gay bars.] In 2016, two gay bars became national monuments, one in the early hours of June the …
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Jennifer Lee and Karthick Ramakrishnan on May 24, 2017
This May marks the 25th anniversary of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. The United States looks much different than it did 25 years ago, as does its Asian American population. Asian …
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Robyn Ryle on May 2, 2017
What is a computer? If you’ve seen the blockbuster film, Hidden Figures, or read the book, you know that the answer to that question has changed over time. Today, a computer is a machine that allows us to accomplish …
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Jennifer Lee on April 25, 2017
The politics of respectability, that elusive set of guidelines that dictate how racialized Americans ought to conduct themselves in public, were complicated recently when a 69-year-old Asian American doctor was forcibly dragged off a United Airlines flight. The video of …
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Michelle S. Phelps on February 1, 2017
Up until the 2016 presidential election, criminologists saw increasingly hopeful signs that a new “smart on crime” political alignment was emergent: imprisonment rates (and crime) were declining, tough-on-crime policies were becoming increasingly unpopular among both Democrats and Republicans, and …
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Jennifer Lee on January 2, 2017
Diversity is heralded by institutions as one indicator of their excellence. In a recent ranking of Ivy League colleges by The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education, Columbia University rose to the top, …
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Penny Edgell on December 15, 2016
It hasn’t been hard to find media coverage of the role that religion played in the 2016 presidential election. If you have been following the news at all, you know that evangelicals voted for Trump …
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Elizabeth Webster on October 17, 2016
Faith in law enforcement — police and prosecutors — has faltered in the wake of unjustified police shootings and the lack of accountability taken by the officers involved. As Brian Forst argues, the unjustified killing of an innocent person is …
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