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2 years after Roe v. Wade reversal: Impacts and what’s to come

June 20, 2024

Social demographer Amanda Stevenson offers her take on how the Dobbs decision has impacted people seeking abortion care and changed attitudes about sex and pregnancy.

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5 things to know about Juneteenth

June 17, 2024

Ashleigh Lawrence Sanders, a professor of African American history, shares insights on the significance of Juneteenth and how celebrations and observances have evolved since its recognition as a national holiday.

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Horsepower: Professor unveils a new history of horses

June 13, 2024

In his upcoming book, “Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History,” William Taylor writes that today’s world has been molded by humans’ relationship to horses.

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Making the case for ‘President Average Joe’

June 12, 2024

A Ƶ Boulder doctoral student examined how an unconventional social media campaign worked in 2020 to make Joe Biden more appealing—or at least less unappealing—to progressive voters.

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As Paris preps for Olympics, Coloradans still feel ambivalent about hosting

June 11, 2024

In the 1970s, Denver became the first and only city to be named an Olympics host, then later back out. A new study shows that Colorado’s feelings about the Games remain complicated today.

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In historic first, Mexico is poised to elect female president

May 31, 2024

On June 2, Mexico’s election day, a woman will almost certainly win the presidential election. However, Ƶ Boulder scholar Lorraine Bayard de Volo notes that electing a female president may not guarantee a more feminist mode of governing.

Gail Nelson

Afghanistan did not have to be Vietnam 2.0, says former intelligence advisor

May 31, 2024

Gail Nelson, a career intelligence officer and Ƶ Boulder alumnus, advised Afghan military intelligence leaders after the United States drove the Taliban from power.

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Violence underpins American life, sociologist contends

May 28, 2024

In a new book, Ƶ Boulder researcher Liam Downey argues that different forms of violence produce both consent to the social order and divisions among subordinate social groups, which help to maintain the power and wealth of economic and political elites.

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No shot: Why we won’t pull the trigger on gun control

May 20, 2024

Following years of high-profile shootings, communications expert and researcher Chris Vargo expected to find rising public salience around gun control. He didn’t.

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From ‘Yellow Peril’ to COVID-19: New book takes unflinching look at anti-Asian racism

May 20, 2024

Ƶ Boulder professor Jennifer Ho, editor of a new collection about global Anti-Asian racism, shares insights on what’s driving it and how communities are fighting back.

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