By Gabriel E. Hales, Ph.D. Candidate and Research Assistant, Michigan State University
Keith N. Hampton, Professor of Media and Information and Interim Director of the Quello Center, Michigan State University
While the COVID-19 pandemic spurred significant progress in expanding rural home internet access, these gains are proving temporary as resources dwindle.
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By Victor Matheson, Professor of Economics and Accounting, College of the Holy Cross
It turns out that handing over taxpayer dollars to billionaire owners tends to be far less popular among regular citizens than among well-connected government officials.
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By John E. Jones III, President, Dickinson College
What counts as fast for a court is slow for the rest of the world, and judges can give contradictory or vague rulings that delay final decisions into the future.
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By Tatishe Nteta, Provost Professor of Political Science and Director of the UMass Amherst Poll, UMass Amherst
Adam Eichen, PhD Student, Political Science, UMass Amherst
Douglas Rice, Associate Professor of Political Science and Legal Studies, UMass Amherst
Jesse Rhodes, Associate Professor, Political Science, UMass Amherst
Justin H. Gross, Associate Professor of Political Science and Computational Social Science, UMass Amherst
There’s a backlash against programs that aim to reverse the effects of systemic racism in the US. A survey indicates that racism is behind that backlash.
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By Frank J. Infurna, Associate Professor of Psychology, Arizona State University
Middle-aged Americans are lonelier than their European counterparts. That’s the key finding of my team’s recent study, published in American Psychologist.
Our study identified a trend that has been evolving for multiple generations, and affects both baby boomers and Gen Xers. Middle-aged adults in England and Mediterranean Europe are not that far behind the U.S. In contrast, middle-aged adults in continental and Nordic Europe reported the lowest levels of loneliness and stability over time.
We used survey…
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By Anneliese M. Schenk-Day, PhD student of the sociology of mass violence, The Ohio State University
Rwanda is touted as one of the leading nations when it comes to strides toward gender equality. But the role of female ‘rescuers’ in the 1994 genocide is being downplayed.
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By Dr Michael Mulvihill, Vice Chancellor Research Fellow, Teesside University
The US and Japan are sponsoring a resolution for debate by the United Nations security council which – if passed – will reaffirm international commitments to the 1967 outer space treaty (OST) forbidding the deployment and use of nuclear weapons in space.
The call, headed by US ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield and Japan’s foreign minister Yoko Kamikawa, follows…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Two work migrants from Central Asia in Moscow, Russia, April 14, 2023. © 2023 Contributor/Getty Images (Berlin, April 5, 2024) – Migrants from Central Asia and other people of non-Slavic appearance are facing a notable increase in ethnic harassment and attacks in Russia in the wake of the March 22, 2024 attack on a concert hall on the outskirts of Moscow, Human Rights Watch said today. Media reports describe an increase in ethnic profiling, xenophobic harassment and violent attacks by private parties and government officials, including arbitrary arrests and prolonged…
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By Giovanni Sala, Lecturer in Psychology, University of Liverpool
Shu Zhang, Research Fellow in Nutritional Epidemiology, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology
Cognitive decline and dementia already affect more than 55 million people worldwide. This number is projected to skyrocket over the next few decades as the global population ages.
There are certain risk…
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By Howard Monk, Senior Teaching Fellow, Music Management, University of Southampton
Thirty years from his death on April 5 1994, the impact of Kurt Cobain and his band, Nirvana, and their values, still resonates in today’s culture and music.
Nirvana were everywhere at the start of the 1990s, much like Taylor Swift’s omnipresence today. But unlike Swift, who has embraced and mastered the business side of her fame, Cobain was very much the anti-superstar of his time.
While Nirvana were certainly at the very top of the industry, headlining sold-out festivals, Cobain…
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