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We hope you find these five articles from the past week timely and fascinating and that you’re having a healthy weekend.
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Will young, Black Americans turn out to vote in November?
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David C. Barker, American University School of Public Affairs; Sam Fulwood III, American University
It's a myth that Black voters represent monolithic support for Democrats. A recent survey shows that young Black Americans in swing states have big reservations about Joe Biden, Democrats and voting.
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The $600 federal jobless benefit expired on July 31.
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David Salkever, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
The $600 federal jobless benefit may be generous, but that doesn't mean is isn't what workers and the US economy need.
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Elizabeth Thompson, American University School of International Service
Suffering a pandemic and the aftermath of a war that killed 50 million, the world in 1920 faced a turning point as it negotiated a new political order. As today, the key issue was racial inequality.
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William Petri, University of Virginia
Some viruses can hide out in the body and reemerge at later times. Which viruses do this, and can the new coronavirus do this too?
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William S. Lynn, Clark University; Arian Wallach, University of Technology Sydney; Francisco J. Santiago-Ávila, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Framing cats as responsible for declines in biodiversity is based on faulty scientific logic and fails to account for the real culprit – human activity.
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