Tag: immigrants
Why a census question about citizenship should worry you, whether you’re...
Michael Blake, University of Washington
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced last week that the 2020 census will include a question about citizenship. Ross argued that...
Why are fewer and fewer Americans fixing their noses?
Laurie Essig, Middlebury College
Americans love cosmetic surgery.
Last year in the U.S., there were 1.8 million plastic surgeries and nearly 16 million nonsurgical procedures, like...
How ‘dreamers’ and green card lottery winners strengthen the US economy
Ethan Lewis, Dartmouth College
While President Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans have long decried illegal immigration and proposed remedies like the wall and mass...
Massachusetts executed two Italian immigrants 90 years ago: Why the global...
Moshik Temkin, Harvard University
Ninety years ago, on Aug. 23, 1927, two Italian immigrants were executed.
The deaths of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in the...
How robots could help bridge the elder-care gap
Cynthia Matuszek, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Despite innovations that make it easier for seniors to keep living on their own rather than moving into...
What history reveals about surges in anti-Semitism and anti-immigrant sentiments
Ingrid Anderson, Boston University
This February, more than 100 gravestones were vandalized at the Chesed Shel Emeth Society Cemetery outside of St. Louis,...
The rise of anti-immigrant attitudes, violence and nationalism in Costa Rica
Caitlin Fouratt, California State University, Long Beach
Costa Rica is often thought of as the “Switzerland of the Americas.”
With a stable...
In today’s anti-immigrant rhetoric, echoes of Virgil’s ‘Aeneid’
Boatloads of refugees put ashore in Italy after a wearying journey at sea; the city they adored, Troy, now a smoking ruin...
EXPLORING NATURE
Get chronic UTIs? Future treatments may add more bacteria to your...
Sarguru Subash, Texas A&M University
Millions of people in the U.S. and around the world suffer from urinary tract...
