5 ways parents can motivate children at home during the pandemic – without nagging...
Wendy Grolnick, Clark University
Parents have always helped with homework and made sure their children fulfill responsibilities like chores, but the extended and often unstructured...
Shuttered by the coronavirus, many gay bars – already struggling – are now on...
Greggor Mattson, Oberlin College and Conservatory
Gay bars have been shuttered by public-place closure orders during the coronavirus pandemic. In March, more than half of...
How to stop using food to reward and punish your kids
Stephanie Meyers, Boston University
At one time or another, just about every parent uses food to reward their kids for good behavior and achievements –...
Going back to school to deal with hard times? For-profit schools could make things...
Molly Ott, Arizona State University and Derrick Anderson, Arizona State University
During recessions or times of high unemployment, there tends to be an increase in...
Inside the Beatles’ messy breakup, 50 years ago
Tim Riley, Emerson College
Fifty years ago, when Paul McCartney announced he had left the Beatles, the news dashed the hopes of millions of fans,...
Bob Dylan brings links between JFK assassination and coronavirus into stark relief
Aniko Bodroghkozy, University of Virginia
Over the past few weeks, the coronavirus has turned the country’s cultural spigot off, with sports suspended, museums closed and...
A world without sports
Lars Dzikus, University of Tennessee
Baseball’s opening day came and went. The Olympics have been postponed. Football in the fall? Don’t count on it.
With COVID-19...
6 ways to build motivation to do your schoolwork now that you’re forced to...
Ryan Korstange, Middle Tennessee State University
Even in normal circumstances, it can be hard to get motivated to do your schoolwork. But these are not...
