‘Coming of Age in Mississippi’ still speaks to nation’s racial discord, 50 years later
Leigh Ann Wheeler, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Most memoirs are soon forgotten.
A rare exception is Anne Moody’s “Coming of Age in Mississippi,”...
Why companies have little incentive to invest in cybersecurity
By Benjamin Dean, Columbia University
Editor’s note: US President Barack Obama is seeking US$14 billion to tackle it. The UK wants to build a start-up...
Can sun umbrellas ever become fashionable again in America?
Jonathan Coopersmith, Texas A&M University
Many of us apply sunscreen when we go to the beach. But walking outside under the fierce summer sun...
New Mexico case should serve as wake-up call on school funding
Derek W. Black, University of South Carolina
A New Mexico trial court recently found that the state has been failing in its constitutional duty to...
Love problems? There’s a pill for that, but Plato offers a wiser cure
Laura D'Olimpio, University of Notre Dame Australia and Richard Paul Hamilton, University of Notre Dame Australia
We take pills and potions for everything from a...
Could oral antiviral pills be a game-changer for COVID-19? An infectious disease physician explains...
Patrick Jackson, University of Virginia
Nearly two years into the pandemic, it has become...
What’s in a word? The challenges of ‘transgender’
KJ Rawson, College of the Holy Cross
Thanks to recent media coverage like the New York Times' Transgender Today series, celebrities like Laverne Cox and...
The challenge facing libraries in an era of fake news
Donald A. Barclay, University of California, Merced
Imagine, for a moment, the technology of 2017 had existed on Jan. 11, 1964 – the day Luther...
