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Unlike in most countries, US Supreme Court justices enjoy life tenure. Some legal scholars believe that centuries-old custom, meant to protect judicial independence, no longer serves the public.
After 12 years in power, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s influence will last long beyond his time in office.
As the coronavirus pandemic played out, veterans who were already lacking adequate benefits and resources found themselves in deeper trouble.
Job loss and reduced earnings can exacerbate existing power imbalances trans people may face in their personal relationships.
If emissions continue at their current pace, Antarctica will cross a threshold into runaway sea rise when today’s kids are raising families. Pulling CO2 out of the air later won’t stop the ice loss.
The gun group violates four key legal and management principles, a scholar of nonprofits explains.
The law continues to treat intimate partner violence like a bar fight – considering only what happened in a given violent incident. But domestic violence isn’t about just physical violence.
The Biden administration has a goal of getting from today’s 42 megawatts of offshore wind power to nearly 30,000 by the end of the decade, but there are still obstacles ahead.
The federal government spends about US$2,500 a year on child care and early education per child under 5, about half of the European average.
If the plan is fully phased in as proposed, workers could get up to $4,000 a month for a total of 12 weeks in paid leave to care for a newborn, another loved one or themselves within 10 years.
The episode might have slipped quietly from the news had Nixon decided to not attack the messenger.
Before the container was standardized, loading and unloading goods was very labor-intensive, inefficient and costly.
To increase renewable energy use, the Biden administration wants the US to go from seven offshore wind turbines today to enough to power 10 million homes within a decade.
Male rats transfer different hereditary information to their offspring depending on their age.
So far, most vaccines in the US are mRNA vaccines. These represent a new technology and are likely to take over the vaccine world. But how do they work? What are their weaknesses? Five experts explain.
This benefit, together with other features of the latest relief package, may greatly reduce child poverty.
It’s awfully hard to wrap your mind around a sum that large. But converting it to a more bite-size representation can affect a voter’s willingness to support government spending.
Cable providers like Comcast carry Fox News and other channels that feed conspiracy theories and lies into Americans’ homes.
Monthly payments to families with children could lift millions of US children out of poverty.
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PhD Student, Political Science, UMass Amherst
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Chair, Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, and Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Public Policy, UMass Amherst
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Associate Professor of Political Science and Legal Studies, UMass Amherst
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Professor of Practice, Nonprofit Organizations; Social & Environmental Enterprises, UMass Amherst
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Associate Professor, Political Science, UMass Amherst
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Department Chair and Professor of Sociology, UMass Amherst
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PhD candidate in Economics, UMass Amherst
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Provost Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, UMass Amherst
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Associate Professor of Political Science and Computational Social Science, UMass Amherst
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Associate Director, Climate System Research Center and Associate Professor of Climatology, UMass Amherst
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Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science, UMass Amherst
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Associate Professor of Global Digital Media, UMass Amherst
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Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering, UMass Amherst
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Provost Professor of Political Science and Director of the UMass Amherst Poll, UMass Amherst
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Professor (Full) of Watershed Management, Water Resources, Water Quality, Ecohydrology, Complex Systems, Ecological Economics, and Sustainability., UMass Amherst
