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Editor's note
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This weekend “All Eyez on Me,” the biopic of rapper Tupac Shakur, opens in theaters. In the years spanning Tupac’s birth in 1971 and his tragic death in 1996, the University of Connecticut’s Jeffrey Ogbar sees a host of hostile forces that confronted an entire generation of black youth. Ogbar describes how Tupac grappled with these same forces – from the War on Drugs to mass incarceration – in his life and in his music.
With Father’s Day on Sunday, communication scholar Kory Floyd explores the understated and unexpected ways that dads express their love, while the University of South Carolina’s Joshua Gold pulls from years of studying stepfamilies to write about the challenges stepdads often face. And Andrew Leland from Rutgers University shares what he has learned about
fathers in two-dad families.
And yesterday in Miami’s Little Havana, President Trump came through on a campaign promise to his Cuban exile supporters by announcing that he was rolling back his predecessor’s engagement with Cuba. The University of Florida’s Brian Gendreau says the immediate effect of the new policy
– which prohibits all dealings with the Cuban military and restores restrictions on American travel to the island – “will be to hurt Cuba’s nascent private sector” while American University’s William M. LeoGrande concludes that “Trump has restarted the Cold War in the Caribbean.”
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Nick Lehr
Editor, Arts and Culture
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Top story
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In the work of many rappers today, the legacy of Tupac Shakur lives on.
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Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar, University of Connecticut
Tupac's sensitivity, intelligence and creativity confronted the hostile forces that antagonized black youth across the country in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Arts + Culture
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Kory Floyd, University of Arizona
Wives sometimes chide their husbands for being cold or distant toward their sons. But men express their love in subtle ways that deserve to be honored rather than belittled.
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Joshua Gold, University of South Carolina
Stepfathers often enter a family unit with certain expectations about what their role should be. They're usually wrong.
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Education
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Thao Nelson, Indiana University
To post or not to post? Colleges and employers are increasingly checking social media to get a sense of their candidates. Here's what you should (and shouldn't) post in order to secure your future.
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Daphna Oyserman, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; Neil Lewis Jr., University of Michigan
While most Americans do aspire to higher education, college is not a reality for many. But why is the gap between hopes and reality larger for some? And how can we strive for equity?
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Andrew Leland, Rutgers University
Research reveals few differences between the parenting of gay men and their straight peers. But it looks like gay fathers could be more apt to volunteer at their children's schools.
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Politics + Society
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Brian Gendreau, University of Florida; William M. LeoGrande, American University
The president restored restrictions on Americans' travel to Cuba and prohibited transactions with its military. Here's why, and what's to come.
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Jossianna Arroyo-Martínez, University of Texas at Austin; Carlos Vargas-Ramos, City University of New York; Charles R. Venator-Santiago, University of Connecticut
Some Puerto Ricans voted, but most stayed home amid a looming financial debt crisis and political protests. Will this vote matter?
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Nicholas D. Mirzoeff, New York University
Britain's shock election and its surprising result allows us to see a relay between visual media, the online world and the political one we live in.
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Health + Medicine
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JB Silvers, Case Western Reserve University
Senate Republicans have been trying to find a way to get enough votes to repeal Obamacare. Here's how their delay could lead to a result they did not expect – more Medicaid.
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Thurka Sangaramoorthy, University of Maryland; Joseph B. Richardson, University of Maryland
The number of new HIV-positive cases has sharply declined – in most parts of the country. Nonurban areas, particularly in the South, are showing sharp increases. Why?
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Ashish A. Deshmukh, University of Florida; Anna Likhacheva, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Women with breast cancer often have six weeks of radiation therapy after surgery to remove the cancer. A recent study suggests that shortening that time is not only effective but also cost-saving.
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Science + Technology
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Eran Klein, University of Washington; Katherine Pratt, University of Washington
BCI devices that read minds and act on intentions can change lives for the better. But they could also be put to nefarious use in the not-too-distant future. Now's the time to think about risks.
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Michael P. Hughes, Francis Marion University
The most expensive defense program in world history has yielded a multi-role fighter plane that is an inelegant jack-of-all-trades, but master of none.
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Ethics + Religion
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Asma Afsaruddin, Indiana University
There are many myths around Sharia. A scholar explains the moral and ethical principles behind it, as also why there are different interpretations.
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Bruce T. Morrill, Vanderbilt University
A key to the successful growth of Jesuits were handwritten letters – transported through trade ships from India.
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Environment + Energy
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Brad Udall, Colorado State University; Jonathan Overpeck, University of Arizona
The Colorado River supplies water to millions of people and irrigates thousands of miles of farmland. New research warns that climate change is likely to magnify droughts in the Colorado Basin.
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Daniel Cohan, Rice University
More than 200 mayors have committed their cities to stick with the Paris climate deal no matter what the US does. Electric vehicles offer a promising route to making good on that pledge.
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Andrew J. Hoffman, University of Michigan
Scientists typically stay out of public policy debates, but an academic makes the case that they need to push back against politicians who distort research.
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Economy + Business
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Nicole Hallett, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Thwarted efforts to organize at Yale and a New York nursing home show how a changing of the guard at the National Labor Relations Board could potentially end the labor movement.
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Jay L. Zagorsky, The Ohio State University; Patricia Smith, University of Michigan
There's an assumption that the poor eat more unhealthy fast food because it's relatively cheap, leading some governments to try limit their access. Two researchers tested that assumption.
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Today’s Chart
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Jay L. Zagorsky
The Ohio State University
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