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Editor's note
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Approximately 2.3 million people are locked away in American prisons, and yet few average citizens have ever stepped inside one. Prison officials routinely deny access to journalists and limit family members’ visitations. Far too often, this lack of oversight leads to abuse and even the death of prisoners. It can also make prisons dangerous workplaces for employees. The University of Michigan’s Heather Ann Thompson – who won a Pulitzer Prize this year for her history of the Attica Prison uprising – explains why
we should all demand more public access to prisons.
From our colleagues at The Conversation UK, we have analysis and commentary about Saturday’s terrorist atrocity in London.
And medical anthropologist Chelsey Kivland, recently diagnosed with cancer, asks whether our developed world plays a role in the increasing incidence of the disease: “The question should not be why did I get breast cancer, but why are we getting it.”
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Emily Costello
Senior Editor, Politics + Society
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Top story
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Inmates at the California Institution for Men state prison in Chino, California in 2011.
REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
Heather Ann Thompson, University of Michigan
The University of Michigan's Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Heather Ann Thompson explains why Americans must demand better access to the nation's prisons.
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Economy + Business
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Robert H. Scott III, Monmouth University
Economic forces – alongside a moral imperative – are driving cities, states and companies to make changes to forestall climate change, regardless of the whims of the White House.
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Bert Spector, Northeastern University
Recent incidents reveal more than just men behaving badly. They show the consequences when corporate cultures are driven by hyper-masculine personalities at the top.
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Environment + Energy
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Anthony Janetos, Boston University
Climate change, rising food demand and globalization are putting pressure on world food production. New research explores the risk of failures in several of the world's breadbasket regions at once.
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Henrik Selin, Boston University
Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris Agreement strains international relations further and strengthens the resolve of other countries to move forward on climate without the US.
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Politics + Society
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James Goldgeier, American University School of International Service
For more than seven decades, US presidents have encouraged peace in Europe. Trump seems eager to toss that legacy aside. Here's what is at stake.
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David Crockett, University of South Carolina
Research on how black people try to avoid racism in their daily lives shows that following white, mainstream standards can have mixed results.
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Health + Medicine
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Chelsey Kivland, Dartmouth College
What causes cancer? A scary truth might be that we have created an environment for it. An anthropologist's search for answers to her own diagnosis raises questions for all of us.
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Allison Webel, Case Western Reserve University
New treatments and prevention programs have inhibited the spread of HIV/AIDS since June 5, 1981, when the CDC first reported what would become HIV. Here's why it's important not to cut funding now.
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Science + Technology
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Alex Burmester, New York University
Both psychologists and neuroscientists are interested in how working memory holds on to items over brief intervals – and are investigating from different angles.
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Peter Byrley, University of California, Riverside
If we're ever to have flexible smartphones and mass-produced e-paper, we'll need to invent a new material – one that's flexible, durable, clear, electrically responsive and lightweight.
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London Bridge attack coverage from The Conversation UK
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