The constitutional right to education is long overdue
Derek W. Black, University of South Carolina
Public school funding has shrunk over the past decade. School discipline rates reached historic highs. Large achievement gaps...
A tax increase that’s proven to save lives
Jeffrey Drope, Marquette University and Otis W. Brawley, Emory University
Lung cancer remains the world’s largest cancer killer, but the world is not doing all...
Living and aging well with HIV: New strategies and new research
Allison Webel, Case Western Reserve University
A generation ago, a list of tips for aging well with AIDS would have seemed a cruel joke. It...
As students near graduation, career and technical education provides a boost
Jay Stratte Plasman, University of California, Santa Barbara
For the past decade or so, every American president has sought to use career and technical education...
The dangers and potential of ‘natural’ opioid kratom
C. Michael White, University of Connecticut
Given the opioid addiction crisis, it would seem preposterous that an opioid is legal for use in the United...
Before Breitbart, there was the Charleston News and Courier
Sid Bedingfield, University of Minnesota
Conservatives who dislike Donald Trump like to blame the president and his Breitbart cheering section for the racial demagoguery they...
Anniversary of Konrad Reuland tragedy reminds us of the toll of brain aneurysms
Brian Hoh, M.D., University of Florida
The late NFL tight end Konrad Reuland and baseball Hall of Famer Rod Carew became forever linked when Carew,...
How Obamacare changed the love lives of young adults
Joelle Abramowitz, University of Michigan
It seems that each week, a new development about the Affordable Care Act calls into question the future of health...