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Social media provide shortcuts to things we yearn for, like connection and validation. Media effects scholars explain the psychological benefits we get from Facebook that make it so hard to quit.
In order to prevent school shootings, schools must use threat assessments like the ones that law enforcement uses to protect public figures, a leading expert on school safety argues on Capitol Hill.
Research shows the ability to act strategically for the long term is a key component of successful leadership – and sorely lacking in Congress these days.
Robert Eggers’ indie film The Witch brilliantly chronicles Puritan life in the 1630s. Horror soon ensues as children disappear into the woods and one girl, Thomasina, is accused of witchcraft.
Media pundits are promoting Canada as exceptional in its tolerance and diversity but the truth is, Canadians have a tendency not to be not less racist than Americans, but to be less loud about it.
Trump administration officials argue that states can regulate more effectively than the federal government. But without leadership from the top, federalism may allow red states to avoid acting.
Even though they don’t consistently have a roof over their heads, the homeless do their best to create a routine, form communities and make a home – just like the rest of society.
Federal rules governing television stations were meant to keep them connected to the communities they serve. The Trump administration wants to weaken those rules, and those civic links.
The Supreme Court’s public reputation is strong in part because people see it as less political than other government branches. What can text analysis tell us about how accurate that perception is?
As the Trump administration settles into office, regulators and lawmakers have big plans for shifting the country’s media landscape, with potentially profound effects on the public.
Talk of adapting to climate change is less polarizing to conservatives than the idea of slashing emissions.
What’s the proper way to behave at a Holocaust memorial? Is that even the right question?
Le mariage entre personnes du même sexe n’est pas un phénomène récent : voilà des siècles que les couples d’hommes et de femmes réclament le droit de se marier.
The more often Americans used their phones to obtain information, the less they trusted strangers. How can this be, and what does it mean?
Same-sex marriage is not a 20th-century phenomenon; couples have long claimed the right to marry.
A historian and biographer of J. Edgar Hoover answers questions on how FBI director James Comey is handling a position with a dark past.
The Federal Communications Commission has broad power to support fast, affordable internet service reaching every home in the U.S. What are its limits – and its possibilities?
The slave trade was used to fund American universities. Scholars are looking to recover the lost stories of the enslaved humans who built some of America’s oldest institutions.
Like Brazil’s favela dwellers, America’s working poor felt a sense of pride and community in their shantytowns – and desperately resisted the powerful interests that sought to demolish them.
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Associate Professor of Hip-Hop, University of Virginia
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Georgia S. Bankard Professor of Economics, University of Virginia
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Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Virginia
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Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Virginia
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Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia
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Associate Professor of Public Policy and Economics, University of Virginia
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Research Assistant Professor of Law, University of Virginia
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Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
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Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Virginia
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Associate Professor of Medicine and Geriatrics, University of Virginia
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Associate Professor of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, University of Virginia
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Professor of Public Health Sciences, Director of the Program on Health Disparities and Community Engagement Research, University of Virginia
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Professor of Law, University of Virginia
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Professor of Public Policy (retired), University of Virginia
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Emeritus Professor of Politics, Washington and Lee University; Senior Fellow, Miller Center, University of Virginia
