Tag: quick reads
Transgender Americans are more likely to be unemployed and poor
Christopher Carpenter, Vanderbilt University and Gilbert Gonzales, Vanderbilt University
The United States Supreme Court will issue a ruling this year in a landmark case that...
Is workplace rudeness on the rise?
Shannon G. Taylor, University of Central Florida
You don’t have to look hard to see uncivil behavior these days, whether in political discourse, in college...
Parental leave laws are failing single parents
Deborah Widiss, Indiana University
The two parties in Congress don’t agree on much these days. However, in the final days of December, they struck a...
Children of color already make up the majority of kids in...
Rogelio Sáenz, The University of Texas at San Antonio and Dudley L. Poston, Jr., Texas A&M University
Demographers project that whites will become a...
Why are so few people born on Christmas Day, New Year’s...
Jay L. Zagorsky, Boston University
Christmas and New Year’s are days of celebration in many parts of the world when people gather with family and...
Transgender homeless Americans find few protections in the law
Jonah DeChants, Colorado State University
Ben Carson, secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, made news earlier this year for his statements about...
Like ‘Little Women,’ books by Zitkála-Šá and Taha Hussein are classics
Sheila Cordner, Boston University
I’m a scholar of literature who spends a lot of time thinking about why certain stories continue to be revisited, and...
Payday lenders have embraced installment loans to evade regulations – but...
Paige Marta Skiba, Vanderbilt University and Caroline Malone, Vanderbilt University
Installment loans seem like a kinder, gentler version of their “predatory” cousin, the payday loan....
EXPLORING NATURE
Research about global fishing shows value of detailed environmental data, which...
Mark Axelrod, Michigan State University
To help people who are affected by pollution and other environmental harms, it’s common...
