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(04/16/18 12:00pm)
In a written statement to NPR, the Boston Athletics Association said transgender participants will be allowed to run in the 2018 Boston Marathon as their identified gender, confirming the continuation of a policy that has been in place for several years.
(04/12/18 6:00pm)
Welcome to the NFL. Your job pays well. You, like your average coworkers, receive $6.93 million — an average yearly salary of $2.1 million for the average NFL career length of 3.3 years — but, unfortunately, this job comes with a cost. You develop chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a neurodegenerative disorder that can cause depression, suicidal thoughts or behaviors, and progressive dementia.
(03/19/18 1:00pm)
Your water bottle may be BPA-free, but a recent paper published by researchers at the State University of New York at Fredonia, has shown your water may still be contaminated with industrial lubricants and microplastics such as polypropylene, nylon and polystyrene.
(02/08/18 2:00pm)
The 2018 Kids Count Data Book, created by the Indiana Youth Institute, highlights Indiana’s continued struggles with infant mortality, parental opioid abuse and child maltreatment.
(01/05/18 7:20am)
Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded an Obama-era medical marijuana memorandum Jan. 4, creating a new rift between state and federal prosecution.
(12/05/17 1:04am)
All that was necessary to restore Vincent Thomas’ vision was a simple 20-minute cataract surgery, during which the clouded lenses of his eyes were removed and replaced with artificial ones under local anesthesia.
(11/27/17 11:34pm)
The New York Times has adequately responded to public outcry after publishing an article by Richard Fausset which normalized the hatred, bigotry and violence of far-right extremism.
(11/13/17 9:14pm)
Over the past year, the National Security Agency has been failing to maintain the cybersecurity of our nation, a failure that calls into question how our government and corporations utilize technology.
(11/07/17 1:02am)
The Paradise Papers, a collection of 13.4 million finance firm documents leaked to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, revealed a number of companies and individuals possessing financial ties to offshore tax havens.
(10/30/17 10:39pm)
This Halloween, let’s talk about something truly scary: the continued rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
(10/23/17 8:49pm)
Slavery never left the United States, it just moved behind bars.
(10/09/17 8:53pm)
In 1996, the annual omnibus spending bill passed by Congress contained an NRA-backed rider known as the Dickey Amendment, named after the rider’s author, then-Rep. Jay Dickey, R-Arkansas.
(10/04/17 8:28pm)
Public opinion of Hugh Hefner has been polarized throughout his entire life, and it has escalated since the 91-year-old creator and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine died last week.
(09/26/17 1:30am)
On Oct. 3, the Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments concerning the Gill v. Whitford case, in which Republican legislators from Wisconsin have been accused of redrawing state assembly districts in a way that discriminates against Democratic voters, thereby violating the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.
(09/18/17 7:53pm)
House Resolution 620, introduced in January by Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, will unduly restrict the freedoms of disabled Americans and weaken the American Disabilities Act.
(09/13/17 3:59am)
The rap industry’s continued support of artists known for their sexism and domestic violence – Chris Brown, Kodak Black and XXXTentacion, for instance – is symptomatic of a larger societal aestheticization of violence.
(09/04/17 9:01pm)
Despite incredible performances by actresses like Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Daisy Ridley and Gal Gadot proving — as if it even needs proof — that women and female-centric narratives deserve equal representation in film, women still only received 31 percent of speaking roles in the films of 2016.
(08/29/17 1:08am)
Last Friday’s pardon of former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio is yet another manifestation of the blatantly racist and bigoted America that President Trump supports.
(08/22/17 4:00pm)
President Trump has recently taken to his social media soapbox to lambast everything from statue removal to immigration, but he has remained silent about one of our nation’s most pressing issues: the environment.
The environmental issues should be taken the most seriously since climate change and other forms of turmoil may be impossible to reverse. The current administration has proven its loyalties lie with large corporations instead of the earth we walk upon.
(08/16/17 10:59pm)
A symbol of colonialism, waste and environmental decay may exist right now in your backyard. In fact, it is your backyard. The lawn, an aesthetic remnant of an unsustainable American dream, is losing its foothold in a greener, more sustainably minded nation.