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Welcome to the best of The Conversation.
Happy Father’s Day! Celebrate with this article about the importance of positive fathering and how it can be practiced by dads, relatives, stepfathers, foster fathers and unrelated mentors.
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Workplace laws in the U.S. change fast. In my first job out of college, my co-workers chain-smoked in our tiny Manhattan office – a practice that New York City later banned. Since then, a variety of federal laws have passed that support pregnant workers and that require reasonable accommodations for pumping breast milk.
In a reader favorite last week, three law professors who study employment discrimination, feminism and menstruation argue it’s time to make work life easier for people experiencing menopause. Such policies are already common in the U.K., and the mayor of New York City recently promised “more menopause-friendly workplaces” for local workers.
How would you like to see workplaces evolve? Hit reply and send me your ideas.
Later this week, we’ll bring you stories about crowding on public lands, the rights of airline passengers when their flights are canceled, the future of the PGA tour and more.
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Emily Costello
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Readers' picks
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Travel to Miami, and you might hear people say ‘get down from the car’ instead of ‘get out of the car.’
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Phillip M. Carter, Florida International University
It came about through sustained contact with native Spanish speakers who directly translated phrases from Spanish into English, a form of linguistic borrowing called ‘calques.’
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Thomas A. Durkin, Loyola University Chicago; Joseph Ferguson, Loyola University Chicago
If you were Trump’s lawyer, what would you advise him to do now? Two national security specialists have some words for and about the former president after his federal indictment.
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Carlton Basmajian, Iowa State University
Maybe it was a nuclear war, devastating climate change, or a killer virus. But if something caused people to disappear, imagine what would happen afterward.
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Bob Leamon, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
The official forecast calls for a strong El Niño by winter, but other models suggest it might dip in and out. An atmospheric scientist explains.
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Gabriel J. Chin, University of California, Davis
There are 38 felony charges against former President Donald Trump, and while it’s unlikely, he could potentially be sentenced to serve 400 years if found guilty on all of them.
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Editors' picks
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Hot flashes can happen anywhere, including at work.
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Naomi Cahn, University of Virginia; Bridget J. Crawford, Pace University ; Emily Gold Waldman, Pace University
Three scholars who are writing a book about menopause and the law suggest ways to protect women experiencing it.
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Emily Rosado-Solomon, Babson College; Jaclyn Koopmann, Auburn University; Matthew A. Cronin, George Mason University
Changing workplace culture and the way jobs are designed can stave off depression, anxiety and burnout.
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Ryan Herzog, Gonzaga University
The Fed said it’s pausing its aggressive rate-hiking campaign as it collects more data on the impact.
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Ronald S. Sullivan Jr., Harvard University
One of the bedrock principles of the American legal system is that no one is above the law. When it comes to indicting a former US president, political factors must also be weighed.
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Robert Mahari, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Jessica Fjeld, Harvard Law School; Ziv Epstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Intellectual property law wasn’t written with AI in mind, so it isn’t clear who owns the images that emerge from prompts – or if the artists whose work was scraped to train AI models should be paid.
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