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The steps that can help adults heal from childhood trauma

Written by Shanta R. Dube, Associate Professor, School of Public Health, Georgia State University

Taking care of your kids can mean taking care of yourself, too.Shutterstock

Editor’s note: May is Mental Health Awareness Month. This article is the third in a series exploring how research into adverse childhood experiences – or ACEs – is helping researchers, therapists, parents, educators and the medical community better...

Why killing coyotes doesn't make livestock safer

Written by Megan M. Draheim, Lecturer in Conservation Biology and Human Dimensions of Wildlife, Virginia Tech

Coyote at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, Colorado.USFWS/Flickr, CC BY

Few Americans probably know that their tax dollars paid to kill 76,859 coyotes in 2016. The responsible agency was Wildlife Services (WS), part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Its mission is to “resolve wildlife conflicts to allow people and...

The US and Mexico: Education and understanding

Written by Earl Anthony Wayne, Visiting Professor of International Affairs, Hamilton College

The University of California-Mexico Initiative Education Working Group created Project SOL, an online curriculum program that teaches students in their native language.University of California, Riverside

Last week, officials from the U.S. and Mexico revitalized their commitment to fight cross-border smuggling of drugs, arms and money. U.S....

The rising homegrown terror threat on the right

Written by Arie Perliger, Director of Security Studies and professor, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Mourners embrace at a vigil for Richard Collins III, who was stabbed to death in College Park, Maryland.AP Photo/Brian Witte

The murder in College Park, Maryland of Richard Collins III, an African-American student who had recently been commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army and was days away from his graduation from Bowie State...

When Trump met NATO: Blunt talk and meaningful silences

Written by Simon Reich, Professor in The Division of Global Affairs and The Department of Political Science, Rutgers University Newark

World leaders met in Brussels for the NATO Summit 2017.AP Photo/Matt Dunham, Poo

Donald Trump’s electoral campaign was notable for his abrasive statements and blunt assessments about a variety of issues. Among his more unforgettable claims was his suggestion that NATO was “obsolete.”

This comment was largely founded, it seems, on a...

Poor and middle-income families need a better way than 529s to save for college

Written by Robert H. Scott III, Associate Professor of Economics, Monmouth University

A college education is increasingly necessary for success in today’s economy. It’s also increasingly expensive.

Americans with a college degree earn, on average, US$1 million more over the course of their lives than those without one. At the same time, the cost to attend a four-year school has been climbing 2 percent to 3 percent a...

How would engineers build the Golden Gate Bridge today?

Written by Hota GangaRao, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, West Virginia University

What could be better?Uladzik Kryhin via Shutterstock.com.

Ever since the Golden Gate Bridge opened to traffic on May 27, 1937, it’s been an iconic symbol on the American landscape.

By 1870, people had realized the necessity of building a bridge spanning the Golden Gate Strait to connect the city of San Francisco with Marin County. However, it...

Homeless vets with families: An untold part of veterans' struggles

Written by Roya Ijadi-Maghsoodi, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles

A homeless Vietnam vet begs for money on a Boston street in 2012. Joseph Sohm/Shutterstcok.com

In 2010, the Obama administration announced the ambitious goal of ending homelessness among veterans. Over the last year, the number of veterans who are homeless dropped 30 percent in Los Angeles County. Nationwide, veteran homelessness fell by almost 50...

Diplomat in chief: How did Trump do on his first Middle East visit?

Written by Jeremy Pressman, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Connecticut

President Donald Trump received both pageantry and a warm reception on his first trip to the Middle East.

Whether bowing his head to receive the King Abdulaziz al Saud Collar from Saudi Arabian King Salman, gathering around the “glowing orb” at the Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology in Riyadh or standing at the Western Wall...

Why Montana just elected Greg Gianforte, a man charged with assault, to Congress

Written by Lee Banville, Associate Professor of Journalism, The University of Montana

Until just about 24 hours before the polls closed, the race for Montana’s sole congressional seat seemed to be focused on health care, Donald Trump and gun rights. Republican businessman Greg Gianforte appeared to be headed for a likely victory in the race against another political newcomer, musician and Democrat Rob Quist.

Then came...