A look behind UK’s impressive unemployment figures shows they’re not so dazzling
By Geraint Johnes, Lancaster University
Unemployment in the UK has fallen below two million for the first time in almost six years, latest figures from...
Could China’s strategic pork reserve be a model for the US?
David L. Ortega, Michigan State University
During the height of the coronavirus pandemic, we became accustomed to face-masked shoppers, social distancing and one-way aisles at...
How to teach and parent better in the age of big data
Katie Headrick Taylor, University of Washington
At the parent-teacher conference, I sat across the table from my first grader’s teacher in a chair made for...
How the tampon shortage is exacerbating period poverty in the US
Marni Sommer, Columbia University
Tampons have become the latest household product to fall foul of supply chain issues.
Fewer diabetes patients are picking up their insulin prescriptions – another way the pandemic...
Ismaeel Yunusa, University of South Carolina
Insulin is as essential as water for many people with diabetes. Of the...
Our obsession with hereditary cancers didn’t start when….
Our obsession with hereditary cancers didn't start when we discovered the breast cancer gene
Devon Stillwell, Johns Hopkins University
Angelina Jolie received much public attention for...
Literature has long been sounding the alarm about sexual violence in Hollywood
Billy J. Stratton, University of Denver
Recent revelations about Hollywood’s culture of sexual harassment and violence might come as a surprise to many Americans.
After all,...
Is today’s university the new multinational corporation?
Jason Lane, University at Albany, State University of New York and Kevin Kinser, University at Albany, State University of New York
A growing number of...
