Comics captured America’s growing ambivalence about the Vietnam War
Cathy Schlund-Vials, University of Connecticut
In America’s imagination, the Vietnam War is not so much celebrated as it is assiduously contemplated. This inward-looking approach is...
Why today’s teens aren’t in any hurry to grow up
Jean Twenge, San Diego State University
Teens aren’t what they used to be.
The teen pregnancy rate has reached an all-time low. Fewer teens are...
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...
