Justin Bieber, Shania Twain, Amy Schumer, Avril Lavigne, Ben Stiller and Kelly Osbourne are just six of the millions of people who report that they have suffered from Lyme disease,…
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The news media cover humanitarian crises selectively. Events associated with clear, dramatic imagery, such as the 2020 Beirut port explosion, often receive intense global news coverage. By contrast, protracted humanitarian…
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On December 6, the D.C. Council unanimously approved a Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, extending crucial recognition and labor protections to thousands of domestic workers. The legislation is expected to pass its…
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For decades, there were growing numbers of Democratic and Republican women in Congress, but the number of Republican women has stalled.
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Researchers are using big data to determine the potential impact of demographic diversity on new knowledge in the field of history. Diverse teams are often associated with rapid discovery, yet…
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One evening last September, Gavin Yamey, professor of global health at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, dined indoors and tweeted a selfie of himself and his two table mates—Chris Beyrer,…
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Earlier this month, Grand Canyon University, a Christian institution headquartered in Arizona with a large online footprint, lost a legal battle it was waging against the U.S. Department of Education.…
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In the spring of 2022, reports showed that only 67 percent of third graders were reading at grade level in the aftermath of the pandemic. Following on the heels of the recently…
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The U.S. Census Bureau in October reported the good news that child poverty had dropped nationally, over the course of 12 years, from 18.2% in 2009 to 5.2% — a…
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This year was tough. Around the world, communities were upended by natural disasters and war; lawmakers implemented devastating rollbacks of reproductive rights; and human rights defenders experienced violent crackdowns. But…
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Now facing soaring inflation, rising energy bills, and sky-high housing costs, the world seems to be lurching from one global crisis to the next. The strain to make ends meet…