A century ago, Russian leaders staged mock trials on rape and abortion to educate citizens about new Soviet laws and values. Then, as now, victim-blaming and 'he said, she said' marred the verdict.
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The urge to provide disaster aid is borne out of the best characteristics of humanity. But it's important to consider when to donate to disaster survivors, along with what and to whom to give.
A national investment bank will bring much needed investment and create new technology, infrastructure and services that will lead to a fairer and greener economy.
Google News does not differentiate search results according to users' politics – but it does favor mainstream news sites, which are seen as leaning left, and doesn't clearly disclose how its algorithms work.
The signs might be there. But parents and clinicians will still wonder if there's some foolproof way to determine whether their children are actually trans. There isn't one – and that's okay.
Programs that allow individuals to be supervised in the community instead of in prison are growing in a way that is not sustainable and is contributing to mass incarceration rather than relieving it.
A detector buried under more than a mile of ice in Antarctica has detected a high-energy subatomic neutrino and traced it to its origin, a blazar – a gargantuan black hole more than a billion times more massive than the sun.
Après le tirage au sort de la Coupe du monde de football 2018, beaucoup ont dit que Didier Deschamps avait été chanceux. Et si on vérifiait. Les nouveautés de ce tirage.
Opioids kill 100 people each day in the US, more than vehicular accidents. Those addicted are often left without treatment. An addiction researcher offers six steps to address the epidemic.
Asian-Americans are extremely diverse. Fear of giving the government personal data may make it more difficult to provide the right educational, health care and other services to specific populations.
Democracy takes many forms, some of them democracy in name only. Confusion and misappropriation complicate the public struggle for the democracy to come, but this challenge is always unending.
L’urbanisme reste conçu pour un citoyen universel : un homme jeune, blanc et actif. Les femmes du monde entier réclament aujourd’hui les espaces citadins pour renverser la donne.
Comment déterminer les âges de la vie où se sont produits les divergences entre deux espèces ? Grâce aux horloges moléculaires : l’ADN comme minuterie.
Urban planning is not gender neutral. Women deserve to live in cities that treat them equally, respond to their needs and reduce opportunities of violence.
If the US, simply focuses on trying to hunt down jihadist leaders in Niger it will be missing an opportunity to address the underlying causes of violence in the region.
Comparing genomes of more than 200,000 people, researchers identified genetic variants that are less common in older people, suggesting natural selection continues to weed out disadvantageous traits.
We asked five architecture experts to name one building or structure they wish had been preserved, but couldn't resist the tides of decay, development and discrimination.
Ryan Kelly's iconic photograph from Charlottesville evokes a 'Unite the Right' moment from 1937 – and the anti-war masterpiece by Picasso that emerged from it.
Major airports around the world will see more frequent flight restrictions in the coming decades because of increasingly common hot temperatures.
It's very easy to assume climate change causes droughts, but they are complex extreme events that result from a combination of drivers.
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Doctoral candidate in African History, Columbia University
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Frontiers of Science Fellow, Columbia University
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Visiting Scholar, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University
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Ph.D. candidate in Communications, Columbia University
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Ph.D. Candidate in Russian Literature, Columbia University
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Senior Lecturer, Columbia University
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Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
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Professeur associé, Département de mathématiques, Columbia University
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Professor of Social Work, Director of Social Intervention Group, Columbia University
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Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory, Columbia University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biological Sciences, Columbia University
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Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
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Financial Markets Director, Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
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Co-Director, Columbia University Justice Lab, Senior Research Scientist, Columbia School of Social Work, Columbia University
