Brenda Bradley, 72, and her husband Jimmie, 78, survey flooding from Hurricane Harvey in their neighborhood in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, August 28, 2017. AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis Sue Anne Bell, University of Michigan News and social media reports from coastal Texas have shown many striking images of Hurricane Harvey flood victims, but few were as […]

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis late Tuesday announced that transgender troops will be allowed to continue serving in the military pending the results of a study by experts. The announcement follows an order from President Trump — first announced in a tweet — declaring that transgender service members can no longer serve in the military, effectively […]

After the murder of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, many people are asking themselves what they should do if Nazis rally in their city. Should they put their bodies on the line in counterdemonstrations? Some say yes. History says no. Take it from me: I study the original Nazis. We have an ethical obligation to stand […]

According to Pew Research center, Immigrant women boosted the annual number of births nationwide and in all but two U.S. states – California and Rhode Island – between 1990 and 2015, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of National Center for Health Statistics data. Read more here.    

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Robots can also lend a hand of sorts. Photographee.eu/Shutterstock.com Cynthia Matuszek, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Despite innovations that make it easier for seniors to keep living on their own rather than moving into special facilities, most elderly people eventually need a hand with chores and other everyday activities. Friends and relatives often can’t do […]

How do you feel about actors from one cultural background playing characters written from the perspective of a different cultural background? Does it demonstrate that we’re color blind or perhaps color conscious related to the financial implications of who is casts in the role? It’s a complex issue for sure and there is no one […]

  Protesters hold signs at the Chicago Women’s March in January 2017. John W. Iwanski, CC BY-NC Laura Van Berkel, University of Cologne; Ludwin Molina, University of Kansas, and Sahana Mukherjee, Gettysburg College Women make up 50.8 percent of the U.S. population and have equal voting rights, yet are politically underrepresented. The country has never […]

According to an NPR/PBS Newshour/Marist University poll conducted in the wake of the violence at Charlottesville, the overwhelming majority of Americans disagree with white supremacy. The following infographic shows that 94 percent of the U.S. public reject the ideology of the KKK, while 86 percent mostly disagree with the white supremacy movement. by Niall McCarthy, […]

Alfred Munzer survived the Holocaust by hiding, living with a Dutch-Indonesian family who risked everything to take him in. His parents and two sisters all wound up in Nazi concentration camps — only his mother survived. Read more by Anna Swartz at Mic.com