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In Amy Coney Barrett’s Senate confirmation hearings, Republican senators have repeatedly pointed out that Judge Barrett is a woman, and a working mom to boot. Just like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, right?
Wrong. The two judges couldn’t be more different in their legal views, which is one reason gender is the wrong way to assess a judge, says Susan M. Sterett, a courts scholar at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. “Women do not all agree on legal issues any more than men do,” she writes. But gender diversity in the courts still matters in many ways.
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Catesby Holmes
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Trump with 7th U.S. Circuit Judge Amy Coney Barrett and her family Sept. 26 at the White House.
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Susan M. Sterett, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
With Amy Coney Barrett's nomination, Trump has fulfilled his pledge to replace the late justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg with a woman. But female judges don't all decide alike any more than male judges do.
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Health and Medicine
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Katelyn Esmonde, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing; Keshia Pollack Porter, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
With many schools closed, children's health could suffer.
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Margaret Riley, University of Virginia
A health law expert explains what the regulation does and doesn't protect.
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Science + Technology
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Robert Root-Bernstein, Michigan State University
A COVID-19 vaccine isn't the only tool for fighting this pandemic. An immunologist argues that safe pneumonia vaccines would reduce the severity of COVID-19, save lives and prevent the worst cases.
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Ronald D. Fricker Jr., Virginia Tech
Health statisticians keep careful tabs on how many people die every week. Based on what's happened in past years, they know what to expect – but 2020 death counts are surging beyond predictions.
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Politics/Election '20
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Mark J. Rozell, George Mason University; Blandine Chelini-Pont, Aix-Marseille Université (AMU)
In the 2016 election, Donald Trump won 60% of the American Catholic vote. This year, it will be difficult for him to obtain a similar score, and that could have immense consequences.
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Marjorie Hershey, Indiana University
Charges of media bias are nothing new, though they've gotten louder since 2016, led by President Trump. But a press free to take a variety of viewpoints was the founders' intention.
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Dora Kingsley Vertenten, University of Southern California
Debt-free property ownership is no longer a requirement for voting rights, but the idea remains that a person must have a residence in a particular community to be allowed to vote.
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Ethics + Religion
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Nicole Kay Peterson, Iowa State University
The coronavirus epidemic has made us all rethink our workspaces. But the needs of the times have always influenced the office space – whether for the colonial empire or a growing commerce.
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Karrin Vasby Anderson, Colorado State University
The seemingly different debate styles of President Trump and Vice President Pence are examples of the same thing, what a political communication scholar calls 'authoritarian white masculinity.'
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Nükhet Varlik, University of South Carolina
As ready as you are to be done with COVID-19, it's not going anywhere soon. A historian of disease describes how once a pathogen emerges, it's usually here to stay.
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Lee M. Pierce, State University of New York, College at Geneseo
Some have equated the German word with small-minded cruelty. But the word's meaning is more nuanced.
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