How Much Does a Newborn Cost During the First Year and What are the Impacts?
Having a child is a huge undertaking since they are dependent upon you for every need, from food to healthcare, education to clothing, and everything in between. Taking care of a child requires mone...
Mike Brown
White nationalism, born in the USA, is now a global terror threat
The recent massacre of 50 Muslim worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand is the latest confirmation that white supremacy is a danger to democratic societies across the globe.Despite Pr...
Art Jipson, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Dayton
Does most of your paycheck go to rent? That may be hurting your health
Families that spend more on housing may have less to spend on their health.Tero Vesalainen/shutterstock.comNew data on health across the U.S. shows that high housing costs are harming Americans’...
Jessica Owens-Young, Assistant Professor of Health Studies, American University
The politics of fear: How it manipulates us to tribalism
The cruel murder of 50 people in New Zealand was another tragic reminder of how humans are capable of heartlessly killing their own kind just based on what they believe, how they worship, and what rac...
Arash Javanbakht, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University
What is the significance of Friday prayers in Islam?
Muslims praying in a Chicago mosque following the shooting in New Zealand, on Friday, March 15.AP Photo/Noreen NasirFollowing the terror attack on two New Zealand mosques last week, many Muslim commun...
Rose S. Aslan, Assistant Professor of Religion, California Lutheran University
A half-century before the hashtag, artists were on the front lines of #MeToo
The 2002 installation 'Rape Garage' displayed statistics about rape, along with first-person narratives about sexual trauma.Stefanie Bruser, Josh Edwa…
Danger ahead in the constitutional standoff over Trump's emergency declaration
President Donald Trump signs the first veto of his presidency in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, March 15, 2019. AP/Evan VucciPresident Do…
Why some counties are powerhouses for innovation
Santa Clara County produced more patents than any other U.S. county in recent history.MintImages/shutterstock.comBy the time the application window cl…
For Native Americans, US-Mexico border is an 'imaginary line'
Immigration restrictions were making life difficult for Native Americans who live along – and across – the U.S.-Mexico border even before …
Jupiter's Great Red Spot: A 300-year-old cyclone persists but is shrinking
Jupiter's Great Red Spot.NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/ Gerald Eichstädt /Seán DoranThe Great Red Spot, a storm larger than the Earth and pow…
Wastewater is an asset – it contains nutrients, energy and precious metals, and scientists are learning how to recover them
Aeration tanks at the Oaks wastewater treatment plant in New Providence, Penn.Montgomery County Planning Commission, CC BY-SAMost people think as litt…
Student loans and 'risk-sharing' – the problem with penalizing colleges when graduates can't pay
Student debt has surpassed $1.5 trillion.Mira Klein from www.flickr.comWhen a student borrows money from the government to go to college and then has …
