The most important ways parents can prepare children for school
Allyssa McCabe, University of Massachusetts Lowell
With school starting, parents wonder what they can do to help their children succeed. Almost everyone knows that...
Paris and Los Angeles bids to host Olympics expose deeper crisis at Olympic Games
John Rennie Short, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
It’s official: We now have hosts for the next two Summer Olympics. Paris will host in 2024...
How the Pentagon tried to cure America of its ‘Vietnam syndrome’
Paul Joseph, Tufts University
In August 1965, Morley Safer, a reporter for “CBS News,” accompanied a unit of U.S. marines on a search-and-destroy mission to...
Want to fix America’s health care? First, focus on food
Dariush Mozaffarian, Tufts University
The national debate on health care is moving into a new, hopefully bipartisan phase.
The fundamental underlying challenge is cost...
During Vietnam War, music spoke to both sides of a divided nation
Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff, University of South Carolina
Music is central to Ken Burns’s new Vietnam War documentary, with an original score accompanied by samples of...
Sleepy teenage brains need school to start later in the morning
Kyla Wahlstrom, University of Minnesota
Millions of high schoolers are fighting with their alarm clocks as they start another academic year. As they struggle to...
The wrongs of passage in fraternity hazing
Hank Nuwer, Franklin College
In the 40 years since publishing my first research on hazing in collegiate groups, I’ve often been reminded of the adage...
At the beauty salon, Dominican-American women conflicted over quest for straight hair
Melissa Godin, New York University
When Chabelly Pacheco – a Dominican-American who moved to Long Island when she was five years old – walks into...