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April 17, 2020 Martha Hurley, _University of Dayton_ Half of incarcerated individuals have either a chronic medical or a mental health condition. But social distancing and rigorous hygiene

are unattainable for many US jails and prisons. March 2, 2020 Shelley Inglis, _University of Dayton_ The war in Syria has reached a crisis point, with close to 400,000 deaths and more than

11 million people displaced. February 20, 2020 Marie Menke, _University of Pittsburgh_ The number of births in the United States have been falling for the last three decades, reaching their

lowest number in 32 years. January 29, 2020 W. Carsten Andresen, _St. Edward's University_ In a handful of cases, defendants in murder cases have said that they were defending

themselves from a same-sex pass or attempted sexual assault. July 22, 2019 Darryl K. Brown, _University of Virginia_ The US is unique in its criminal punishment policies – as the recent

sentencing of neo-Nazi James Fields Jr. demonstrates. March 8, 2019 Monti Datta, _University of Richmond_ New England Patriots CEO Robert Kraft’s criminal charges in a suspected sex

trafficking case draw new attention to this illicit underground economy. January 14, 2019 Nevbahar Ertas, _University of Alabama at Birmingham_ The current government shutdown is now the

longest in American history, affecting about 800,000 federal employees. January 11, 2018 Irena L. Kenneley, _Case Western Reserve University_ After Australia’s tough flu season, some experts

predict that the U.S. is in for a few difficult months. What does that mean for you? June 16, 2017 Asma Afsaruddin, _Indiana University_ There are many myths around Sharia. A scholar

explains the moral and ethical principles behind it, as also why there are different interpretations. October 23, 2015 Virginia Barbour, _Australian National University_; Danny Kingsley,

_University of Cambridge_; James Bradley, _The University of Melbourne_; Keyan Tomaselli, _University of Johannesburg_; Lucy Montgomery, _Curtin University_, and Tom Cochrane, _Queensland

University of Technology_ To the mark the eighth annual Open Access Week, we asked our readers what they wanted to know about the initiative. Here are their questions with answers from our

experts. August 10, 2015 Damian Adams, _Flinders University_; Deborah Dempsey, _Swinburne University of Technology_; Fiona Kelly, _La Trobe University_; Loretta Houlahan, _Monash

University_, and Roger Cook, _Swinburne University of Technology_ Thanks to IVF and donor conception, infertile couples, single women and lesbian couples now have a better chance of starting

families. But while common, it’s rarely openly discussed.