Nepal’s revamped truth commissions will need to go beyond ‘ritualism’ to deliver justice to civil war victims
A newly amended law may push the country beyond what has been a drawn-out and sluggish process to account for the country’s ...
Wind phones help the bereaved deal with death, loss and grief − a clinical social worker explains the vital role of the old-fashioned rotary phone
People use the wind phone to “call” and have a one-way conversation with deceased loved ones. Here they can say the things ...
Trump and Harris vocabularies signal their different frames of mind
Harris had nine “future” statements, all of which were about what she intends to do. For example, she said, “And when I am ...
Gentrification isn’t inevitable − it can hinge on how residents view their neighborhood
A case study of a mainly Latino neighborhood in Houston shows that when residents value a neighborhood as it is, they can ...
Rare Florida fossil finally ends debate about how porcupine jaws and tails evolved
Modern North American porcupines are at least twice the size of their southern cousins and have stronger jaws. But how long ...
Men are carrying the brunt of the ‘loneliness epidemic’ amid potent societal pressures
There is an epidemic of isolation gripping the United States, health experts say, with the resulting loneliness ...
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College can be confusing for first-generation students – but it doesn’t have to be
Blake R. Silver received funding for this project from the American Sociological Association's Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline. Colleges don’t set out to make life complicated for their ...
The Conversation15m
Self-forgiveness is more than self-comfort − a philosopher explains
Quinnipiac University provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. As the Jewish High Holidays approach, which begin with Rosh Hashanah and continue with Yom Kippur, the theme of forgiveness ...