By Art Jipson, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Dayton
Extremist groups have pointed to the federal indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center as proof that their worldview is correct.
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By Brooklyn Walker, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Tennessee
Paul Djupe, Director of the Data for Political Research Program, Denison University
Christian nationalism, a worldview that sees the United States as a Christian nation and believes that Christianity should have a privileged role in American civic life, has been shown to be related to a host of social attitudes.
Research shows that people who hold Christian nationalistic beliefs tend to, on average, also show antipathy toward religious minorities and
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By Ziv Epstein, Postdoctoral Associate in Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Farnaz Jahanbakhsh, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and of Information, University of Michigan
Michael Bernstein, Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
Algorithms on X tend to bring you posts that contradict your values, and it happens more to Democrats than Republicans.
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By Matthew Kurtz, Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behavior, Wesleyan University
Novel treatments include mental exercises to boost cognitive function, as well as strategies that help people with schizophrenia understand the emotions of others.
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By Mary Jean Tecce DeCarlo, Clinical Professor of Literacy Studies, Drexel University
Learning to read and write cursive was once a rite of passage for practically every American schoolchild.
Until the early 20th century, children in the U.S. were generally taught to write in cursive or script, rather than the print writing typically taught to young children today. Some people at the time thought…
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By Sarah Porter, Director of the Kyl Center for Water Policy, ASU Morrison Institute for Public Policy, Arizona State University
The existing plans and commitments to reduce water use don’t add up to even half of the savings that are needed to keep the river flowing.
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By Noam Lupu, Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University
Nicholas Carnes, Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, Duke University
Both major U.S. political parties regularly tout their commitment to working-class Americans and claim to be the party of the working class. However, neither the Democrats nor the Republicans nominate many candidates who spent substantial time in working-class jobs.
This near-absence…
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By Jamie Seabrook, Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Professor, Department of Paediatrics; Professor, Brescia School of Food and Nutritional Sciences, Western University
Jasna Twynstra, Associate Professor, Brescia School of Food and Nutritional Sciences, Western University
Jason Gilliland, Director, Urban Development Program; Professor, Geography & Environment, Western University
Rawan Alfares, Master of Science student, Brescia School of Food and Nutritional Sciences, Western University
Researchers surveyed more than 1,500 students at a large Canadian university to better understand the relationship between cannabis use and diet quality.
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By Darren Elliott-Smith, Senior Lecturer in Film, Media and Gender, University of Stirling
In Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Gillian Anderson plays Billy, a reclusive actress famous for playing a classic “final girl”. That’s the last woman left alive to confront the killer in a slasher movie. “It’s all about flesh … and fluids,” she explains when discussing the appeal of the fictional Camp Miasma franchise, the series of slasher films at the heart of this affectionate meta-slasher.
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun’s follow-up to the critically acclaimed queer…
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By Adam Farquhar, Research Associate in the School of Law, University of Edinburgh
Donald Trump’s Board of Peace published a 15-point roadmap for Gaza in late July in which Hamas would hand its weapons to a committee of Palestinian technocrats, certified by an international verification body, and Israel would withdraw from the strip in phases. After Israel officially rejected the plan on August 9, US envoy Jared Kushner flew to the Egyptian coast to
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