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Saluting the ‘Broads’ who declared themselves in laughter, from 1812 Productions

Strong women take the microphone.

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Early starts are key to developing children’s talents, experts say. (Eugene Partyzan/ Shutterstock)
Community
The Conversation

5 ways to develop children’s talents

Talent, I argue, is not born, it’s made – and parents can make a big difference.

7 years ago

What does your phone know about you? (Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock.com)
Community
The Conversation

Most Americans don’t realize what companies can predict from their data

In the U.S., the companies and platforms you interact with own the data they collect about you. This means they can legally sell this information to data brokers.

7 years ago

Clare O’Malley (center) delivers a sweet, searing Joan who dazzles all with her confidence and determination in Delaware Theatre Company's production of
Arts & Entertainment

Delaware Theatre’s ‘Saint Joan’ a story of determination

Clare O’Malley delivers a sweet, searing Joan who dazzles all with her confidence and determination in Delaware Theatre Company's production of "Saint Joan" in Wilmington.

7 years ago

Gregg Goodbrod and Sarah Gliko in
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

A sentimental journey over ‘The Bridges of Madison County’ at Philadelphia Theatre Company

A photographer, a housewife and a show that doesn't know when to stop.

7 years ago

Local newspapers keep readers’ interest on local politics. (Shutterstock/Bridget McPherson)
Politics & Policy

When newspapers close, voters become more partisan

At a time when national political news is inescapable, there is less local news to be found – and less interest in local politics from Americans.

7 years ago

Black Americans were most affected by the 2009 recession. (Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters)
Money
The Conversation

African-Americans’ economic setbacks from the Great Recession are ongoing – and could be repeated

Even today, a decade since the Great Recession hit, blacks still haven’t fully recovered and remain in a precarious financial condition.

7 years ago

In this file photo, then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds up his book 'The Art of the Deal', given to him by a fan as he speaks during a campaign stop Saturday, Nov. 21, 2015 in Birmingham, Ala. (Eric Schultz/AP Photo)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

The art of the schlemiel

There's a Yiddish saying that "a schlemiel is somebody who often spills his soup." Which brings us to Donald Trump.

7 years ago

There is a fundamental mismatch between what sexual assault survivors disclose and what legal systems need to hear to take action. (Shutterstock)
Courts & Law
The Conversation

Latest allegations of sexual assault show how the legal system discourage victims from coming forward

There is a fundamental mismatch between what sexual assault survivors disclose and what legal systems need to hear to take action.

7 years ago

Lise Meitner was left off the publication that eventually led to a Nobel Prize for her colleague. (The Conversation)
Science
The Conversation

Lise Meitner – the forgotten woman of nuclear physics who deserved a Nobel Prize

Left off publications due to Nazi prejudice, this Jewish woman lost her rightful place in the scientific pantheon as the discoverer of nuclear fission.

7 years ago

Political propaganda, painted on a street wall, La Habana, Cuba (Lucas Vallecillos/VWPics via AP Images)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Trump’s fright-wing freakout about ‘socialism’

Did you catch Trump's 2020 campaign message, lodged deep within the State of the Union speech? "Here in the United States, we are alarmed by new calls to adopt socialism."

7 years ago

Ruby Wolf (left) and Rachel Brodeur in
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

‘Box Clever’ and boxed in at life, from Inis Nua Theatre Company

A desperate single mother bares her soul, but not effectively until the play's very end.

7 years ago

In 2018, Washington voters rejected a proposed carbon tax. (Ted S. Warren/AP Photo, file)
Politics & Policy
The Conversation

Americans say they’re worried about climate change – so why don’t they vote that way?

According to a survey, “record numbers of Americans say they care about global warming.” But voters do not identify climate issues as key drivers of their voting decisions.

7 years ago

A sculpture of an oil pump held by a human hand stands outside the headquarters of Venezuela’s state-owned oil company. (Fernando Llano/AP Photo)
Money
The Conversation

Why Venezuela’s oil money could keep undermining its economy and democracy

As political and economic crises threaten to topple Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro, political scientists like us are not surprised that he has run into trouble.

7 years ago

Brittany Holdahl in Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium's production of
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

A ‘Dream Girl,’ overwhelmed by her space with Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium

Her mind takes off into daydreams, but the play is earth-bound by echoing sound where it's performed.

7 years ago

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