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In the face of DEI backlash, belonging plays a key role to future success
(THE CONVERSATION) Diversity, equity and inclusion efforts have become increasingly visible in U.S. workplaces, especially over the past five years. However, DEI has recently come under attack, with companies scaling back their DEI plans.
As a professor of organizational psychology, I believe businesses should refine rather than ... (full story)
How the 14th Amendment prevents state legislatures from subverting popular presidential elections
(THE CONVERSATION) Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election not only failed, but some of them also rested on a misreading of the U.S. Constitution, as our new analysis argues. The relevant constitutional provision dates back to just after the Civil War, and contemporaries recognized it as a ke ... (full story)
The Nuremberg Code isn't just for prosecuting Nazis − its principles have shaped medical ethics to this day
(THE CONVERSATION) After World War II, Nuremberg, Germany, was the site of trials of Nazi officials charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Nuremberg trials were landmarks in the development of international law. But one of them has also been applied in peacetime: the "Medical Trial," which has helped to s ... (full story)
26 states may soon need to regulate cannabis – here's what they can learn from Colorado and Washington
(THE CONVERSATION) The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has made moves to reclassify marijuana, making it a type of legal but regulated medicine, like Tylenol with codeine or some steroids.
With the reclassification, 26 states where cannabis is currently illegal will need to decide whether they want to take action to stop th ... (full story)
Creative arts therapy programs can help health care workers dance, write and draw their way through burnout and on-the-job stress
(THE CONVERSATION) Doctors and nurses seldom learn in school how to tell a family that their loved one is not going to survive. Yet health care professionals face the immense burden of tragedy, illness and dying in an intensely stressful setting as a routine, ongoing part of their jobs.
Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, researc ... (full story)