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There’s a good reason China took aim at US soybean exports when it announced its latest list of retaliatory tariffs.
It’s worth looking at how local news stations have traditionally operated.
Whether they do it full-time or as a side hustle, Americans who have some say over their schedules and tasks seem to covet the flexibility.
A new form of therapy gives people with dementia the opportunity to chat with other baseball fans, watch footage of old games and even play wiffle ball.
Some experts fret that the US birthrate is on the decline. That might not be so surprising, when the cost of having children in the US has grown exponentially since the 1960s.
Changes to the official mandates guiding nonprofits and government agencies might be less significant than they appear.
The budget bill just signed into law by the president will both make it harder for restaurants to take worker tips while reducing a form of inequality rife in the industry.
While it might seem like a longstanding tradition, it’s a relatively recent phenomenon in the U.S.
Their culture places a high value on something many Americans don’t.
The US is only the 18th happiest country in the world. That’s the lowest ranking since reporting began in 2012. What are policymakers doing wrong?
Taking part in the NCAA tournament tends to make a bigger difference for public universities that garner relatively few donations.
Is an archaic sewing skill a key to connected, sensing, communicating fabrics of the future?
Every March, millions of Americans watch the NCAA’s annual college basketball tournament, while millions more fill in brackets to win their office pool.
President Trump says ‘trade wars are good,’ but history tells a very different story.
New research suggests that hints left in Creole languages can identify where the original speakers came from – even hundreds of years after they migrated and mixed together.
Only recently did it come to represent the dream of fame.
The Supreme Court could kill collective bargaining throughout the country, making workers worse off and exacerbating inequality.
The lightning-quick corporate response to demands for a boycott against the NRA shows that companies can’t escape politics in an age saturated with social media.
Wearables help regular people track their activity, but sophisticated technology can give deeper insights to elite athletes.
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Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law, Boston University
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Professor of International Economic Affairs at The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Director, Institute for Social and Health Equity; Social and Healty Equity Endowed Chair, Department of Health Policy, Management, and Behavior, School of Public Health, University at Albany, State University of New York
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Associated Director of Data Partnerships at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Assistant Professor & Director of the Muslim Philanthropy Initiative, Indiana University
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Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy Practice, University of Connecticut
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Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University
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Ben L. Fryrear Chair in Marketing and Associate Professor of Business Administration, University of Pittsburgh
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Associate Professor of Law, University of Oregon
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Provost Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, UMass Amherst
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Professor of Economics, University of Nebraska Omaha
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Professor of economics, Fordham University
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Associate Professor of Education, University of Southern California
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Richard L. Menschel Professor of Public Health and Professor of Health Policy and Political Analysis, Emeritus, Harvard University
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Senior Research Scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University
