It’s a question many Americans, like me, are asking after mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton claimed the lives of at least 29 people over the weekend. There have now been 32 shootings killing three or more people this year alone.
We know from experience what comes next – calls for new laws from some, and the assertion of Constitutional rights from others.
Lacey Wallace, an assistant professor of criminal justice at Pennsylvania State University, explores less familiar ground by examining the firearms any new gun restriction likely wouldn’t touch: the 393 million already owned by Americans. Attempts to buy these guns back from owners have so far been costly and limited.
More than 40 percent of U.S. adults have a gun in their household, making it hard to get guns off the streets – even if new gun restrictions are passed.
The Earned Income Tax Credit was established in 1975 to reduce payroll taxes and help with rising prices for low-income families. Today, it could help poor families with housing.
A sociologist spent over a year interviewing black, white and Latino residents of a declining coal town in central Pennsylvania, plumbing the sources of their political disillusionment.
Darby Saxbe, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; Jennifer Hahn-Holbrook, University of California, Merced
Breast milk contains ingredients in concentrations that change over the course of the day. Researchers think milk is chrononutrition, carrying molecular messages to help set a baby's internal clock.
New data show more girls and minority high school students taking Advanced Placement courses in computer science. A computer science professor weighs in on what that means for the future of the field.
Emma Frances Bloomfield, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Many practicing U.S. Christians do not believe that human activities are warming the Earth, but they hold diverse views about the environment. Effective climate conversations recognize those nuances.
For centuries, written communication was tinged with formality and finality. But since the emergence of casual forms like texting, using proper grammar can be fraught with misinterpretation.
