Inazu on the art of disagreement
John Inazu, the Sally D. Danforth Distinguished Professor of Law & Religion, discusses his book, “Learning to Disagree,” and makes the case that it’s possible to disagree productively and respectfully without compromising our convictions.
Policy, shmolicy: Election Day weather and football victories could decide the election
There are factors that have absolutely nothing to do with the candidates themselves or national and international conditions, but can affect a close election. These are what you might call the random factors, writes Mark Rank.
A Leadership Position We Aren’t Prepared For
Faculty members who run a lab have a research job and a leadership job, but they are often only trained for one of those, Jen Heemstra writes.
Meeting the Artificial Intelligence Needs of U.S. Health Systems
Clinicians and health systems must prepare for AI involvement in clinical care with some urgency, writes Philip Payne.
Teaching Markets and Morality
The need for students to consider the touch points between big moral questions and today’s political and financial issues is more pressing than ever, write Peter Boumgarden and Abram Van Engen.
Schumer’s Lawless Attack on the Supreme Court
If progressives hope to reclaim the Constitution, it will require the sustained generational effort of building coalitions, winning elections and reimagining the judiciary’s role. Mr. Schumer’s effort may be clever on paper, but it’s a distraction, writes Daniel Epps.
Even fictional presidents don’t look like Kamala Harris − although Black men and white women have been represented in the Oval Office
over the past half-century, American media has usually proclaimed that Black men and white women can fit the model of great presidents. But they have usually been just one or the other: a Black man or a white woman, writes Peter Kastor.
How to not get divorced
Liberty Vittert, professor of the practice of data science
From Michael Brown to Sonya Massey, a decade of police antiblack violence causes grief, worry and coping for Black parents
There remains a critical need to invest in the health and well-being of Black communities through structural policy changes in education, health care and local government., write Seanna Leath and Sheretta Butler-Barnes.
Ancient grains of dust from space can be found on Earth − and provide clues about the life cycle of stars
Presolar grains help researchers understand nucleosynthesis in stars, mixing of different zones in stars and stellar ejecta, and how abundances of elements and their isotopes change with time in the galaxy, writes Sachiko Amari.
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