Tag: quick reads
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....
Why support for the death penalty is much higher among white...
Kevin O'Neal Cokley, University of Texas at Austin
Sentencing a person to die is the ultimate punishment. There is no coming back from the permanence...
Calling donors to thank them doesn’t make them more likely to...
Anya Samek, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Donors gave US$380 million to nonprofits during 2018’s Giving Tuesday donation...
Was that joke funny or offensive? Who’s telling it matters
Michael Thai, The University of Queensland and Alex Borgella, Fort Lewis College
In September, before the start of its 45th season, “Saturday Night Live” brought...
EXPLORING NATURE
New study measures titanium in Apollo rock to uncover Moon’s early chemistry
Advik D. Vira, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emily First, Macalester College
The Earth and the Moon may look...
