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Americans were confronted with yet another painful video showing a Black man being brutally beaten by police – this time Tyre Nichols was beaten in Memphis and died from his injuries three days later.
Rashad Shabazz, a scholar of African American studies at Arizona State University, wrote for us about the societal forces that could lead Black police officers to brutalize another Black man.
The officers involved were part of the elite SCORPION unit, encouraged to take an aggressive approach to stopping crime, explain Seth Stoughton and Ian Adams, who are former police officers and professors at the University of South Carolina. They highlight examples of these specialized squads going rogue and undermining public trust in policing since Prohibition.
In Brazil, the politician known as Lula is back in office for an unprecedented third term. Marc-Andreas Muendler and Carlos Góes, two economists at the University of California, San Diego, look at what it will take for him to turn one of the world’s biggest economies around.
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The FDA advisory committee discussed vaccine safety, effectiveness of the current shots, potential seasonality of COVID-19 and more.
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Matthew Woodruff, Emory University
Many questions remain about next steps for US vaccine policy. But the FDA advisory panel’s hearty endorsement of a single-composition COVID-19 vaccine represents a pivotal step.
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Sara N. Burke, University of Florida
Researchers are trying to understand whether ultra-processed foods erode brain health in the aging process.
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Kevin J. Krizek, University of Colorado Boulder; John Hersey, University of Colorado Boulder
As many cities grapple with the housing crisis, some places are rewriting regulations and finding creative ways to repurpose these hulking masses of concrete that suck up valuable real estate.
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Jaimie Arona Krems, Oklahoma State University; Devanshi Patel, Oklahoma State University
While excess weight arises from a complex interplay of genes, environment, diet and activity, new research finds Americans hold parents responsible for excess weight in their kids.
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Michael Humphries, Touro University
The mere threat of a default was enough to see the US’s credit rating downgraded in 2021. The consequences of a default actually happening could be dire, an economist warns.
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Bill Clinton, at right, oversaw the first balanced budget since 1969, with some help from a bipartisan deal with Newt Gingrich.
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Linda J. Bilmes, Harvard Kennedy School
House Speaker McCarthy wants to put the US on a path to a balanced budget as debt ceiling negotiations begin with President Biden. Here’s why it won’t be easy to repeat what Bill Clinton accomplished.
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Ian T. Adams, University of South Carolina; Seth W. Stoughton, University of South Carolina
The officers charged in the murder of a Black man in Memphis, Tenn., were part of the elite SCORPION squad. Such units have an ugly history.
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Rashad Shabazz, Arizona State University
Black police officers can have bias against Black people – and act on it.
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Marc-Andreas Muendler, University of California, San Diego; Carlos Góes, University of California, San Diego
He faces strong headwinds at home and abroad as his third term as president gets underway.
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Kimberly Paul, Clemson University
After nearly 40 years of effort, Guinea worm disease is on the cusp of being the second human disease – after smallpox – to be eradicated on Earth.
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