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Food Deserts 12 Aug 2013 | 06:48 am
by Shirley Cannon Since 2010, First Lady Michelle Obama has led the fight against childhood obesity. In “Let’s Move,” an initiative to encourage kids to eat healthier and get exercise, Obama has eate...
The Hug Treatment 12 Aug 2013 | 06:48 am
by Cassandra Conlin At a world economic summit in Cannes in 2011, Barack Obama walked into the room, shaking the hands of European leaders. When he drew closer to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip ...
The Armstrong Effect 12 Aug 2013 | 06:48 am
When cyclist Lance Armstrong admitted to doping, he joined a growing list of professional athletes with ruined reputations. But public humiliation is not the end of Armstrong’s story. As the public fa...
Don’t Say Gay 12 Aug 2013 | 06:48 am
For now, “the love that dare not speak its name” won’t be silenced in Tennessee. Since 2008, Republican Senator Stacey Campfield has been trying to pass a bill to limit speech about homosexuality in s...
Meet Our Department Editors 12 Aug 2013 | 06:48 am
Viewpoints Syed Ali studies emigration and assimilation, has done fieldwork in Hyderabad, India, New York City, and Dubai, and is the author of Dubai: Gilded Cage. He has written for Contexts a coupl...
Masculinity in Many Forms 12 Aug 2013 | 06:48 am
Weekend warriors in suburban basements, basketball stars who are also ethnic icons, ex-cons on the streets of New York—masculinity comes in many forms. While we didn’t set out to publish a masculiniti...
Keeping it in the Family 12 Aug 2013 | 06:47 am
For a while when people asked what I did for work, I’d mumble that I’d gone into the family business. Then I took to calling myself the “Tori Spelling of sociology.” Now, in what might be optimistical...
Bushels of Misconduct 12 Aug 2013 | 06:47 am
When ethics violations occur in business, we often hear it is the result of “a few bad apples”—individuals like Bernard L. Madoff or Kenneth Lay. Yet a simple Google search of recent business ethics s...
Shaming Obesity 12 Aug 2013 | 06:47 am
Although many public health experts consider obesity to be among the most serious health challenges in the U.S. and a decade of public health campaigns have tried to address the problem, obesity rates...
Great Books Aren’t Written, They’re Re-Written 12 Aug 2013 | 06:47 am
NYU Editor Ilene Kalish shares her single most valuable tip for authors: rewrite.
