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Younger evangelicals have a very different view of their faith.Their perspective on issues such as immigration and economic inequality differs widely from that of the religious right.
China has the world’s second-largest economy, powered by cheap labor and cheap fossil fuel. But now Chinese urbanites want greener, healthier lifestyles. Can the government deliver them?
Natural hair has become a political rallying point for women across the African diaspora. For these women, wearing natural hair is way to resist Eurocentric norms and “post-racial” political thought.
Nous avons désormais la preuve que la formation musicale joue sur le développement du cerveau, les progrès cognitifs, sociaux et émotionnels des enfants.
Several brain regions engage in an amazing symphony to produce music. What then are the benefits of music training on a child?
An academic who used to hold top secret security clearance explains how things get classified and why the Clinton email scandal is hard to nail down.
Stereotypes have consequences for the mobility of young Latinos, a growing segment of our population whose integration is critical to the social and economic vitality of the United States.
Our feelings of self-worth and contentment are no longer the preserve of writers and artists. Science has made measurement of our well-being a viable alternative to the banalities of economic output.
How should we celebrate Christmas during a time when religious extremism inspires terrorist attacks and young people are abandoning the church?
If Malawian children do not learn basic skills like reading, will this harm them in the long term? Recent evidence suggests the answer is yes – at least in terms of their health.
Studies show that the more familiar we become with false information, the more likely we are to later remember it as fact.
Since 1990, GDP per person in China has doubled and then redoubled. With average incomes multiplying fourfold in little more than two decades, one might expect many of the Chinese people to be dancing…
Between 2003 and 2011, 8,000 to 40,000 unaccompanied migrant children from Central America were stopped every year on the southern border of the US. When this number boomed to more than 57,000 during the…
Lost amidst the chatter about carbon taxes, mining regulation, and the “two-speed economy” is a much more elemental question—at heart, what kind of society do Australians really want to live in? In particular…
The quest for physical beauty holds powerful sway, driving us to spend billions annually on a dizzying array of cosmetic procedures to improve on the hand that nature dealt us. But could it affect our…
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Associate Professor of Writing, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Associate Professor of Religion, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Lecturer in Political Science and International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of Practice in International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Dana and David Dornsife Professor of Psychology and Director of the Wrigley Institute for Environment and Sustainability, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Social scientist, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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President, Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Associate Professor of International Relations and Environmental Studies, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Associate Professor of the Practice of Political Science and International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Associate Professor of Earth Sciences, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of Physics and Astronomy, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Research Scientist, Center for Economic and Social Research, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
