It’s hard to succeed in college if you’re hungry. But more than half of community college students don’t have access to affordable and healthy food. What difference can food scholarships make?
The landing page for 2018 enrollment on the ACA exchanges.
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The current period of partisan division in the US isn’t unique. We can learn from past President Dwight Eisenhower on how to leave bitterness behind and get back to what he called the “Middle Way.”
Vietnam War protests led to a lower voting age. The Parkland shooting could push similar reevaluations.
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Teens’ brains develop different skills along a predictable timeline. These milestones should influence the legal age boundaries for voting, buying guns and being put to death.
Silvio Berlusconi, left, arrives to vote as a bare-breasted woman protests in background.
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Nearly half of all teachers report having high levels of daily stress. Research shows that when teachers are stressed out, it can negatively affect students and schools.
A Happy Meal with chocolate milk and cheeseburger at a Brandon, Miss., McDonald’s.
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McDonald’s recently announced it will make its Happy Meal, which accounts of about 15 percent of all sales, healthier. Will it make kids healthier? That’s unclear, but it could lower parents’ guilt.
Most caregivers today are assisting their relatives. What will happen in the years ahead?
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The demographics, which include declining numbers of adult children free to step up and potentially fewer immigrants, suggest that this big problem society faces will get bigger.
Our current politically turbulent times in the US are difficult – but not unusual. History shows that fragility is the norm. Get used to it. What is unusual are moments of calm.
Deedra Abboud is running for the U.S. Senate in Arizona.
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Venus flytrap plants have ‘traps’ that snap shut on insect prey. But they also rely on insects for pollination. New research suggests how the plant avoids eating its allies.
From asking a partner to pick up dinner on the way home to checking in on a neighbor with health problems, we frequently face the question, ‘What’s the best way to communicate?’
What can a modern-day Creole language tell us about its first speakers in the 1600s?
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New research suggests that hints left in Creole languages can identify where the original speakers came from – even hundreds of years after they migrated and mixed together.
Economic history suggests Trump’s ‘America First’ trade policies will put the U.S. last.
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The president’s tariffs on steel and China mirror the misguided trade policies that helped precipitate the Great Depression.
The Amazon rainforest is fed by a rich network of creeks, streams and rivers. Informal road construction is now endangering this critical ecosystem.
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Thousands of dirt roads crisscross the Brazilian Amazon, serving ranchers, loggers and miners. The area’s fragile waterways — and the spectacular fish that live in them — pay a high price.
NRA TV’s content focuses on ideology rather than guns.
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Gun control advocates want to shut down the National Rifle Association’s online video channel, NRA TV. A scholar looks at what its videos are actually about.
Students who need mental health services rarely receive them.
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In order to prevent future mental health problems among at-risk students, schools must do a better job of screening for mental health problems earlier.
Knowledge has been democratized. What does that mean for scientists?
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Much like the printing press upset the social order centuries ago, the explosion of information online is challenging the role of scientists in society.
More women than men were left standing after the war and pandemic.
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With many men ‘missing’ from the population in the aftermath of the 1918 flu, women stepped into public roles that hadn’t previously been open to them.