When people feel threatened, they’re more receptive to politicians who espouse xenophobic rhetoric.
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Joshua Conrad Jackson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Michele Gelfand, University of Maryland
Some view a retreat from democracy and the escalating effects of climate change as an unfortunate coincidence. But a new study shows that the two trends may be more closely related than we think.
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Ming Hsu Chen, University of Colorado Boulder
The backlog in naturalization applications has ballooned to more than 700,000. Wait times have doubled in the last three years.
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Shelley Inglis, University of Dayton
The US has historically asked for international support when brewing conflicts in the Middle East boiled over.
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Joshua Murray, Vanderbilt University
The odds are stacked against the striking workers at General Motors. A sociologist who's studied the decline of the US auto industry explains why.
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Christopher P. Brown, University of Texas at Austin
Kindergarteners are under tremendous pressure – doing as many as 15 academic activities in a day, with a shorter recess time. What is the long-term impact?
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Pedro L. Godoy, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
Paleontologists created an evolutionary map of how croc body size changed over the last 200 million years – with some interesting implications for today's species.
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Ming Hsu Chen
University of Colorado Boulder
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