This plastic matters: girls as young as three-and-a-half associate thin dolls with being smart and heavy dolls with being sad.
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The candidates differ on Middle East policy sometimes a lot; other times not so much. But whoever becomes president, there is no way that America will stop obsessing about the region.
We may have been entering a new form of global war for the last three decades – in slow motion – in the Middle East and North Africa.
The world’s largest technology companies are making public the programming and hardware designs at the center of their businesses.
Frederick Wiseman’s documentary ‘In Jackson Heights’ explores the joys, struggles, victories and defeats of one of the most diverse communities in the country.
Children don’t learn much about how illnesses spread if they are just taught a list of dos and don’ts. They need to know why an action is useful.
Kids who watch educational programs such as ‘Sesame Street’ show better academic skills. But this does not mean all children can learn from educational media.
The unfolding information about the Zika virus and saddening images of babies infected with microcephaly should really scare us all. The disease has spread “explosively” throughout the Americas, with 32…
Just a few hours after birth, infants show a preference for human faces. Over the next few months, they learn from facial expressions.
On Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, five educators reflect on recent campus protests and describe concrete actions universities can take to bring opportunity to all.
Sanders is not a socialist. And Denmark is not a utopian ideal to which Americans should aspire. Here’s why.
Well Santa has come and gone, at least for the largest proportion of the world’s population. And, as we reach the end of the year, it is inevitably time to review recent trends and the prospects for 2016…
Thomas Jefferson would disagree with Trump’s call to bar one religious group from entering the country. But that’s not to say that Trump’s idea isn’t anything new in American history.
Winston Churchill famously suggested that: You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else. Speaking with his characteristic mix of the compassionate and cerebral…
The downing of Russia’s plane by Turkish military forces over the skies of the Syrian-Turkish border has added yet another layer of complexity to the vortex of conflict in the Middle East. Most of the…
Face à l’engagement de nouvelles puissances en Syrie et à des défaites symboliques sur son terrain, Daech déploie une nouvelle stratégie. Les attentats de Paris en sont un effroyable épisode.
Face à l’engagement de nouvelles puissances en Syrie et à des défaites symboliques sur son terrain, Daech déploie une nouvelle stratégie. Les attentats de Paris en sont un effroyable épisode.
Under pressure in the Middle East, ISIS is turning to terrorism in Europe with a new set of predictable goals.
In the summer of 2007, in a bizarre incident shown live on Russian television, scientists accompanied by a couple of senior politicians descended 4,300 meters to the floor of the Arctic Ocean in two Mir…
Newark’s children are no better off even after Mark Zuckerberg pumped $100 million to improve public schools. What opportunities have been lost? What lessons have we learned?
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Distinguished Professor of Anthropology; Director, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University - Newark
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Professor of Earth and Environmental Science, Rutgers University - Newark
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Researcher, Rutgers University - Newark
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University Professor of Law, Rutgers University - Newark
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Associate Professor of Public Affairs and Administration, Rutgers University - Newark
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Professor of Economics and Global Affairs, Rutgers University - Newark
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Associate Professor of Disability Studies in Education, Rutgers University - Newark
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Associate Professor of Public Affairs and Administration, Rutgers University - Newark
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Professor of Urban Education and Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Academic Initiatives, Rutgers University - Newark
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Associate Professor of History and American Studies, Rutgers University - Newark
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Dean of the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University - Newark
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Rachel Hadas is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of English, Rutgers University - Newark
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Distinguished Professor of Law, Rutgers University - Newark
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Professor of Law and Chancellor's Social Justice Scholar; Director, Center for Immigrant Justice, Rutgers University - Newark
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Professor of Public Affairs and Administration, Rutgers University - Newark