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Editor's note
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If the Senate health care bill introduced Thursday becomes law, it would forever change Medicaid, which provides coverage for seniors in nursing homes, disabled adults and children, and those whose incomes fall below a certain level.
Simon Haeder of West Virginia University explains how rare such dramatic cuts to health care programs are in U.S. history and walks us through what happened when funding for other health care programs were cut. “States were unable to continue the program without federal support or offer a valid replacement. Indeed, the programs quickly faded away. With them, millions of Americans lost access to health care,” Haeder writes.
At the start of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan today, University of Florida’s Ken Chitwood provides a glimpse into the lives of Muslims of Puerto Rico. What is their history and what are their unique struggles?
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Lynne Anderson
Senior Editor, Health & Medicine
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Larissa Pisney of Denver protests outside the Aurora, Colorado offices of Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Colorado) to show her displeasure with efforts to dismantle the ACA.
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Simon Haeder, West Virginia University
Cutting back or cutting out social safety net programs, as the Senate and House health care proposals would do, is rare. Here's a look at how such actions have fared.
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Ethics + Religion
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Ken Chitwood, University of Florida
There are an estimated 3,500 to 5,000 Muslims in Puerto Rico. Who are they and what is their history?
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Andrea Jain, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Wednesday, June 21, is International Yoga Day. A scholar explains how yoga is being Christianized in different parts of the world. So, what then is real yoga?
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James Hudnut-Beumler, Vanderbilt University
ATMs began appearing in churches providing a way for people to come up with ready cash to give to God and their church. But why was cash necessary?
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Economy + Business
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Katina Sawyer, Villanova University; Christian Thoroughgood, Villanova University
Ethical scandals at Uber and Fox have focused attention on the leaders of the organizations, but the problems of a toxic culture often embed deep within an organization.
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Xiaoxia Cao, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Seeing cheerful kids in fundraising pitches works better for some potential donors than others, research suggests. Nonprofits may want to tailor their appeals to different audiences because of that.
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Politics + Society
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Austin Sarat, Amherst College
Of the 34 state ballot initiatives seeking to limit or abolish the death penalty, 31 have failed. Is this democracy at its worst?
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Laurie Marhoefer, University of Washington
Gay pride has many exuberant advocates. It also has critics in unexpected places.
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Jeffrey Lazarus, Georgia State University
But there's little evidence the high spending changed any minds, says a political scientist who lives in the district.
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Arts + Culture
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John Affleck, Pennsylvania State University
Since Michael Sam came out in 2014, no one in the NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL has done the same. Are the barriers to coming out still holding firm? Or are there signs that the tide could soon turn?
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Jayn Goldsen, University of Washington
Marriage has long been tied to better health. The first study of the relationship between marriage, health and quality of life for LGBT Americans affirms the benefits of marriage – with some caveats.
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Education
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John E. Taylor, West Virginia University
Thirty years after the Supreme Court ruled that creationism cannot be required in schools, 'creation science' is still taught in some schools. What are the implications for climate education?
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Jason Lane, University at Albany, State University of New York
Most university presidents in the US are still white, male and over the age of 60. But as they retire, is there an opportunity to reshape college leadership and, with it, higher education itself?
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Christopher Rakes, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Math instruction is stuck in the last century. How can we change teaching methods to move past rote memorization and help students develop a more meaningful understanding – and be better at math?
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Environment + Energy
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Joshua D. Rhodes, University of Texas at Austin
How fast can the US transition to clean energy and with what energy sources? Here's why an impassioned debate among energy wonks matters to the rest of us.
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Michael Vandenbergh, Vanderbilt University; Jonathan M. Gilligan, Vanderbilt University
Without the private sector cutting carbon emissions – rather than just lobbying the government for action on climate – the world will never reach the temperature targets of the Paris Agreement.
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Science + Technology
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Chapurukha Kusimba, American University
Currency first hit the scene thousands of years ago. An anthropologist explains the early origins and uses of money – and how archaeological finds fill in our picture of the past.
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Simon Darroch, Vanderbilt University; Imran Rahman, University of Oxford
With no identifiable body parts, it's hard to know how these fossilized creatures lived. A new approach models how the ocean's water would interact with their unique shapes – hinting at their lifestyle.
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Karuna Pande Joshi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Tim Finin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Nobody can understand the legal language in privacy policies. Can artificial intelligence digest the text and produce a human-readable explanation?
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