What the Leo Frank case tells us about the dangers of fake news
Ingrid Anderson, Boston University
On Tuesday, April 11 – the first day of the Jewish holiday of Passover – White House Press Secretary...
Why are we dragging our feet when more automation in health care will save...
Thomas Hooven, Columbia University Medical Center
As a neonatologist, I worry about patients with pulmonary hypertension. This unforgiving disease, sometimes seen after premature...
What’s behind TV bingeing’s bad rap?
Elizabeth Cohen, West Virginia University
Call it Netflix’s spring binge.
At the end of March, Netflix released the critically acclaimed “13 Reasons...
Ella Fitzgerald’s flirtation with reefer songs
Adam Gustafson, Pennsylvania State University
“The First Lady of Song” Ella Fitzgerald would have turned 100 on April...
The myth of the college dropout
Jonathan Wai, Duke University and Heiner Rindermann, Chemnitz University of Technology
When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was asked to give this year’s commencement...
Building jobs in the Rust Belt: The role of education
Dana Mitra, Pennsylvania State University
When my father-in-law struggled in school in a mill town along the Ohio River, his parents suggested that...
Will Trump’s cuts inspire more DIY foreign aid?
Susan Appe, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Running on a shoestring budget, Future in Our Hands-USA helps people living almost 7,500...
Are there too many music festivals?
Jonathan Wynn, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Coachella unofficially kicks off the 2017 U.S. festival season on April 15, and while this year’s event...
