Tag: quick reads
Brexit: An ‘escape room’ with no escape
Terrence Guay, Pennsylvania State University
Brexit is beginning to look a lot like an “escape room” with no exit.
An escape room is an increasingly popular...
#MeToo, workplace equality and the ‘wave of women’: 3 essential reads
Bryan Keogh, The Conversation and Nicole Zelniker, The Conversation
Editor’s note: As we come to the end of the year, Conversation editors take a look...
Cargo ships are emitting boatloads of carbon, and nobody wants to...
Henrik Selin, Boston University and Rebecca Cowing, Boston University
Maritime shipping transports 90 percent of the goods traded around the world by volume. Moving large...
Low-income parents want a white picket fence, not just money, before...
Christina Gibson-Davis, Duke University and Anna Gassman-Pines, Duke University
Marriage rates in the U.S. are declining, especially among the lowest-income Americans.
However, in October, wage...
Giant mosquitoes flourish in floodwaters that hurricanes leave behind
Michael Reiskind, North Carolina State University
After Hurricane Florence, reports started rolling in of “giant mosquito” sightings – and bitings – throughout North Carolina. What’s...
Reduced sentencing for nonviolent criminals: What does the public think?
Kevin Wozniak, University of Massachusetts Boston
Partisan politics in Washington has found a new victim: criminal justice reform.
Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is trying...
Why trade deficits aren’t so bad
William D. Lastrapes, University of Georgia
Most Americans seem to think international trade deficits are a bad thing.
A March poll, for example, showed that...
How is ‘new NAFTA’ different? A trade expert explains
Amanda M. Countryman, Colorado State University
On Sept. 30, the U.S., Canada and Mexico reached a deal to scrap NAFTA and replace it with a...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
