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“The Forest Service was established under the principle that no political appointees would enter that agency,” Prof. Char Miller told E&E News by Politico.

Prof. Ellie Anderson joins the Rethinking Wellness podcast to discuss the realities of living in a “post-truth” era—where conspiracy theories, fake news, and anti-science rhetoric are everywhere.

Democrats have long contended that America’s central tension is the question of who belongs and have organized their politics accordingly. But the California primary offered a striking lesson in how much has changed, Prof. Sara Sadhwani writes.

Borderline Personality Disorder is one of the most misunderstood diagnoses in mental health—often confused with bipolar disorder, dismissed as a character flaw, or thought of as untreatable, TIME writes.

“Voters want change,” Prof. Sara Sadhwani told the Times, “but it doesn’t appear right now that there has been an appetite for a major shift in the ideology of the city or the state.”

Prof. Emeritus Miguel Tinker Salas is featured in Bloomberg story on Venezuela losing badly needed doctors because of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on Cuba.

In a state where Democrats hold a roughly two-to-one advantage over Republicans in voter registration, the uncertainty is striking, the Guardian writes.

In a talk organized by the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS), Prof. Yanshuo Zhang proposed a new scholarly paradigm for incorporating the Asia-Pacific into global studies of race and identity.

Rebuilding democratic institutions and norms after illiberal rule is difficult, as Poles have learned throughout their post-communist transition to democracy after 1989, Prof. Mietek Boduszyński writes in Just Security.

A strong sense of place can deeply influence a story, and in some cases, the setting can even feel like a character itself, the New York Times writes.