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Kara Alaimo On social media, most of us don’t think too hard about what we’re doing as we “like,” scroll and swipe across our screens. But I study how Americans …
Kara Alaimo On social media, most of us don’t think too hard about what we’re doing as we “like,” scroll and swipe across our screens. But I study how Americans …
Cynthia M. Allen I have spent several days reading coverage of the recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that recognized extrauterine embryos as children. Then I read the court’s actual decision …
Steven Hill How big of a role will inflation play in the upcoming presidential election? That’s anybody’s guess, but one thing is certain: Democrats will cite facts and statistics that …
Jon Marshall President Harry Truman did something bold in 1947 — he allowed his annual State of the Union address to be broadcast on the new medium of television. Since …
Stephen Mihm It’s been a tough few months in the spotlight for America’s elite universities. But while controversy around DEI policies and campus responses to the Israel-Hamas war have grabbed …
Nikolai Levasov Georgia, where I live, has joined a number of other states in implementing digital ID technology, meaning you can now save and display your identification on your phone. …
Candace Baker When my grandmother was raising my cousins and me, she taught us to work hard and go after what we wanted. I didn’t know it at the time, …
The Swampscott Conservancy The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) has a current exhibit about bats, so guess what this month’s column is about? Yes, bats! If you haven’t seen it, I …
Lisa Jarvis A new study published last week in Science makes a compelling case that people with long COVID have a chronic imbalance in their immune response. The findings don’t …
Debra Katz The United States has enjoyed years of extraordinarily safe air travel. While this is a remarkable feat, it shouldn’t take a viral video and loose bolts to …