Coronavirus responses highlight how humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don’t fit their...
Adrian Bardon, Wake Forest University
Bemoaning uneven individual and state compliance with public health recommendations, top U.S. COVID-19 adviser Anthony Fauci recently blamed the country’s...
What doctors know about lingering symptoms of coronavirus
William Petri, University of Virginia
With over 2 million cases in the U.S. since the coronavirus pandemic began in late December, there are now many...
How deforestation helps deadly viruses jump from animals to humans
Amy Y. Vittor, University of Florida; Gabriel Zorello Laporta, Faculdade de Medicina do ABC, and Maria Anice Mureb Sallum, Universidade de São Paulo
The coronavirus...
5 reasons to make sure recess doesn’t get short shrift when school resumes in...
Rebecca London, University of California, Santa Cruz and William Massey, Oregon State University
Once children return to school for the first time since the coronavirus...
5 ways the world is better off dealing with a pandemic now than in...
Siddharth Chandra, Michigan State University and Eva Kassens-Noor, Michigan State University
Near the end of the First World War, a deadly flu raced across the...
From grandfather to grandson, the lessons of the Tulsa race massacre
Gregory B. Fairchild, University of Virginia
My family sat down to watch the first episode of HBO’s “Watchmen” last October. Stephen Williams, the director, included...
5 reasons police officers should have college degrees
Leana Bouffard, Iowa State University and Gaylene Armstrong, University of Nebraska Omaha
Following several deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police, President...
How Hemingway felt about fatherhood
Verna Kale, Pennsylvania State University
Ernest Hemingway was affectionately called “Papa,” but what kind of dad was he?
In my role as Associate Editor of the...



















