In 2019, a zoonotic disease jumped from animals to human and spread rapidly through respiratory droplets. It came to be known as COVID-19. The pandemic led to closures of universities, movie theaters, fitness centers, and ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has become the global crisis of 2020 and the focal point of much public attention. Climate change is the ongoing crisis of the industrial and post-industrial ages. The United States and the rest of ...

The US shale industry turned the world-wide energy landscape upside down in less than a decade and put the US (back) atop the global energy hierarchy. At the beginning of 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic shocked the global ...

The COVID-19 pandemic forced museums globally to shut their doors, yet many continued to extend content and resources through virtual means. This paper highlights some of the efforts of museums in the Western United States ...

Current literature identifies wide-ranging predictors for populist and conspiratorial sentiment like nativism, economic inequality, social isolation, and other mental health issues. This paper presents an empirical analysis ...

Educators across the United States are holding their breath to see if their empty classrooms during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic remain so even after an end to widespread school closures. Existing research on chronic ...