The U.S. government’s H-1B visa program allows highly skilled foreign citizens to work in the United States for a temporary amount of time. Each year, more tha...
The COVID-19 pandemic has given the economy the largest negative shock since the Great Recession of 2008. Without an effective long-term economic response, the...
If the pipes, wires, and other systems that make life run smoothly confound you, you’re not alone.
“There’s this mysteriousness or magic that’s associat...
Even in districts thought to be progressive, the experience of LGBTQ youth isn’t always positive. Two of Prof. Susan Woolley’s recent publications explore these problems and offer solutions to teachers and administrators.
In America’s highly charged partisan atmosphere, it can be difficult to hear the signal through the noise — to discern facts through the spin and rancor often ...
The fraught history of the Bible in North America and how American Indian communities have grappled with it.
More than 500 years have passed since the E...
Two hours south of Nairobi, Kenya, is an enormous watershed that supplies most of the water used in the capital city and the surrounding agricultural area — th...
While some of these institutions encourage the kinds of productive historical dialogue that Karn believes can help former enemies, survivors, and future generations move toward peace, others fuel — or do little to temper — ongoing hostility.
Decommissioning or destruction of nuclear plants has far-reaching social effects, says Associate Professor of Geography and Asian Studies Daisaku Yamamoto.