We trust children to know what gender they are – until they go against...
Diane Ehrensaft, University of California, San Francisco
I will start by asking two questions: at what age did you know your gender, and do you...
What’s in a word? The challenges of ‘transgender’
KJ Rawson, College of the Holy Cross
Thanks to recent media coverage like the New York Times' Transgender Today series, celebrities like Laverne Cox and...
When teachers see similarities with students, relationships and grades improve
Hunter Gehlbach, Harvard University
Many of our world’s most pressing challenges arise between groups who perceive the chasm between their opposing views as too vast...
Past minimum wage gains make LA’s $6 hike appear rather puny
Jay L Zagorsky, The Ohio State University
The Los Angeles City Council recently passed a law increasing the minimum wage to US$15 per hour by...
Tech titans want to conquer death – but do you really want to live...
Richard Gunderman, Indiana University-Purdue University
A recent Washington Post article quotes Oracle founder Larry Ellison as saying that death makes him “very angry.” In the...
Something is rotten in the state of US education
Richard Gunderman, Indiana University-Purdue University
A report released last year estimates that nearly half of the nation’s new teachers quit within five years, a rate...
There are more Baltimores: America’s legacy of hollowed-out cities
John Rennie Short, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Now that the dust has settled and the media have moved onto the next crisis, we can...
Virtual distance: technology is rewriting the rulebook for human interaction
Karen Sobel Lojeski, Stony Brook University and Martin Westwell, Flinders University
Consider the following two situations.
In the first scenario, a man and a woman sit...
