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A recent survey shows members of the new Congress as overwhelmingly religious. There is no representation from the religiously unaffiliated or “none of the above,” commonly known as “nones,” whose numbers have been steadily increasing.
So, who really are the nones? USC Dornsife’s Richard Flory says they are a complex and evolving category that includes people with “different relationships to religion.”
Can immigration enforcement affect pregnancy? In research published this week, Nicole Novak and Aresha Martinez-Cardoso from the University of Michigan found that Latino infants born in the nine months after a major immigration raid in Iowa were more likely to have low birth weight than infants born before the raid.
And if you’re tired of hearing the same old guidelines about staying safe online, Richard Forno from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s Center for Cybersecurity has some new advice for you.
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Who really are America’s irreligious?
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Richard Flory, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Americans are increasingly choosing not to identify with any religious tradition. But this group of irreligious people is a complex one – with different relationships to religion.
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Health + Medicine
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Joan Cook, Yale University
The pains of the past carry into the future, especially for groups of people who have been mistreated for decades or even centuries. Here is not only why that happens but also how you can help.
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Nicole L. Novak, University of Michigan; Aresha Martinez-Cardoso, University of Michigan
The stress of immigration enforcement has implications for health.
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Politics + Society
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John Donohue, Stanford University; Max Schoening, Stanford University
When serving as Alabama's attorney general, Sessions supported a bill that would have expanded the state's death penalty -- even past the point where it was constitutional.
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Science + Technology
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Richard Forno, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Dulled by hearing the same old recommendations to improve internet security, we are worn out. It's time for a new approach, involving us all.
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Arts + Culture
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Anthony Fargo, Indiana University, Bloomington
With an explosion of media outlets that don't adhere to mainstream journalistic standards, it's became difficult for readers to know whether to trust reports based on unnamed sources and leaks.
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Environment + Energy
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Paul West, University of Minnesota
How can we feed a growing world population while protecting the environment? One key strategy is to improve yields on small farms, which produce much of the food in the world's hungriest countries.
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Bob Doherty, University of York
Nearly two-thirds of the billion people suffering food insecurity are themselves farmers. Here's how some are protecting themselves.
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Economy + Business
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Vasilios Theoharakis, University of Sheffield
After eight torturous years of crisis, Greeks are working long and hard with very little to show for it.
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Rest of the World
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Chikwe Ihekweazu, UCL
Running an effective mass immunisation campaign, vaccinating children in Nigeria against measles is a logistical nightmare.
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Terry Goldsworthy
Any policy governing police pursuits must balance the need to apprehend offenders with the safety of the community.
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Robert J Downes, King's College London
Reports of a failed Trident missile launch have all sorts of political and security implications – but they don't necessarily spell catastrophe.
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