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The Constitution doesn’t have a problem with mask mandates

John E. Finn, Wesleyan University

The year the West was burning: How the 2020 wildfire season got so extreme

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How QAnon uses satanic rhetoric to set up a narrative of ‘good vs. evil’

Paul Thomas, Radford University

If the Supreme Court strikes down the Affordable Care Act, Trump’s health care order is not enough to replace it

Simon F. Haeder, Pennsylvania State University

Faked videos shore up false beliefs about Biden’s mental health

Dustin Carnahan, Michigan State University

Trump’s law-and-order campaign relies on a historic American tradition of racist and anti-immigrant politics

Austin Sarat, Amherst College

What – or who – is antifa?

Stanislav Vysotsky, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

Jerry Falwell Jr. will leave behind a very different legacy from his influential father

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I’m a lung doctor testing the blood plasma from COVID-19 survivors as a treatment for the sick – a century-old idea that could be a fast track to treatment

Jeffrey M. Sturek, University of Virginia

Latin American women are disappearing and dying under lockdown

Lynn Marie Stephen, University of Oregon

Acute flaccid myelitis: What is the polio-like illness the CDC just issued a warning about?

Jay Desai, University of Southern California

Poor, minority students at dilapidated schools face added risks amid talk of reopening classrooms

Hardy Murphy, IUPUI

The long history of how Jesus came to resemble a white European

Anna Swartwood House, University of South Carolina

Should you avoid meat for good health? How to slice off the facts from the fiction

Dariush Mozaffarian, Tufts University

Why the CDC warns antibiotic-resistant fungal infections are an urgent health threat

Cornelius (Neil) J. Clancy, University of Pittsburgh

With anti-Semitism on the rise again, there are steps everyone can take to counter it

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On Yom Kippur, remembering Mosul’s rich and diverse past

Stephennie Mulder, University of Texas at Austin

Vaping likely has dangers that could take years for scientists to even know about

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What Myanmar’s bizarre capital tells us about the future of travel

David Bockino, Elon University

Berkeley, Milo Yiannopoulos and the lessons of free speech

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Accelerating exoplanet discovery using chemical signatures of stars

Natalie Hinkel, Arizona State University

The Trebek effect: The benefits of well wishes

Richard Gunderman, Indiana University

India’s Prime Minister Modi pursues politics of Hindu nationalism – what does that mean?

Sumit Ganguly, Indiana University

Yes, eating meat affects the environment, but cows are not killing the climate

Frank M. Mitloehner, University of California, Davis

The Freddie Mercury story that goes untold in ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’

Laurie Marhoefer, University of Washington

What the Industrial Revolution really tells us about the future of automation and work

Moshe Y. Vardi, Rice University