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What Happens to Kids When You Give Families a Universal Basic Income?

A town in Cherokee, North Carolina is an experiment on how a universal basic income affects kids.
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Coming Clean on Gender in Soap Operas

Academic scholarship on gender in soap operas.
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Leopold and Loeb, Again

The defense in the trail of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for the Boston Marathon bombing is using Clarence Darrow's strategy in the Leopold and Loeb trial of 1924.
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Geoengineering: A Real Weapon Against Climate Change?

Does geoengineering deserve stronger consideration as a strategy to combat climate change?
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Poor Kids, Social Mobility, and Their Contexts

A different angle on the issue of poor kids in America and abroad in an issue of Ethos
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Remembering Billie Holiday

The 100th anniversary of Billie Holiday's birth.
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San Gimignano’s Fascist Redesign

The politically-influenced redesign of the famed towers of San Gimigano.
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Obscenity and Unintended Consequences

In the Journal of American Studies, Amanda Frisken investigated how an earlier set of standards around obscenity emerged in the 1870s.
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The Logan Act

An old American Law, The Logan Act, has suddenly been thrust into the news.
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Why Higher Pay Can Be Good for Business

Higher pay for workers can be a good move for firms even beyond PR.