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Borderline Personality Disorder is one of the most misunderstood diagnoses in mental health—often confused with bipolar disorder, dismissed as a character flaw, or thought of as untreatable, TIME writes.

“Voters want change,” Prof. Sara Sadhwani told the Times, “but it doesn’t appear right now that there has been an appetite for a major shift in the ideology of the city or the state.”

Prof. Emeritus Miguel Tinker Salas is featured in Bloomberg story on Venezuela losing badly needed doctors because of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on Cuba.

In a state where Democrats hold a roughly two-to-one advantage over Republicans in voter registration, the uncertainty is striking, the Guardian writes.

In a talk organized by the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS), Prof. Yanshuo Zhang proposed a new scholarly paradigm for incorporating the Asia-Pacific into global studies of race and identity.

Rebuilding democratic institutions and norms after illiberal rule is difficult, as Poles have learned throughout their post-communist transition to democracy after 1989, Prof. Mietek Boduszyński writes in Just Security.

A strong sense of place can deeply influence a story, and in some cases, the setting can even feel like a character itself, the New York Times writes.

The Trump administration has made dramatic changes to the U.S. Forest Service—closing nearly every regional office and axing its research budget.

“Social media has changed the game. People have always looked for candidates they could have a beer with but now it’s about the ways in which they’re able to connect with voters online,” Prof. Sara Sadhwani says.

Arely Zimmerman, associate professor of intercollegiate Chicana/o Latina/o studies, discusses her book, Contentious Citizenship: Salvadoran Activism and Belonging Across Borders, with the University of Arizona Press.