Why Congress needs to make child care more affordable – 5 questions answered
Taryn Morrissey, American University School of Public Affairs
Editor’s note: Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and U.S. Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va., recently reintroduced their Child Care...
How being beautiful influences your attitudes toward sex
Robert Urbatsch, Iowa State University
People tend to feel strongly about matters of sexual morality, such as premarital sex or gay marriage.
Some sources of these...
Why asbestos litigation won’t go away: Because asbestos won’t go away
Jeb Barnes, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
It is tempting to dismiss asbestos as a problem of the...
A Danish word the world needs to combat stress: Pyt
Marie Helweg-Larsen, Dickinson College
Danes are some of the happiest people in the world, and they also happen to have a lot of cool words...
Promising new drug for treatment-resistant depression – esketamine
Lee Hoffer, Case Western Reserve University
Treatment-resistant depression affects 1 in 3 of the estimated 16.2 million adults in the U.S. who have suffered at...
Stories of African-American women aging with HIV: ‘My life wasn’t what I hoped it...
Thurka Sangaramoorthy, University of Maryland
Sophia Harrison, 51, is a single mother of two, with an extended family to support. She has lived with epilepsy...
3 tips: How to teach children to watch commercials more closely
Sarah Gretter, Michigan State University
With all the time that young people spend in front of screens these days – from TVs to laptops, cellphones...
The Freddie Mercury story that goes untold in ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’
Laurie Marhoefer, University of Washington
Millions of people will tune in to the Oscars to see “Bohemian Rhapsody,” the biopic of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury,...
