Chigozie Obioma, English, wrote a July 2 op-ed for The Guardiancomparing mental health in the United States and Nigeria. He wrote that western nations could learn much from Nigerians' general optimism and resilience.
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Richard Edwards, director of the Center for Great Plains Studies, wrote a July 5 op-ed for The Washington Post about many black homesteading sites falling into decay and the importance of saving them. Edwards is also director of the Black Homesteaders in the Great Plains project at the university.
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Joy Castro, English and ethnic studies, was interviewed for a July 8 Salon article about women deciding to stop coloring their gray hair. She cut her hair back to just the silver four years ago, which preceded a number of life-changing events.
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National Review ran an article July 12 on Ted Kooser's "Kindest Regards: New and Selected Poems." Kooser is a Presidential Professor of English at Nebraska and a former U.S. poet laureate.
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A passage from University of Nebraska–Lincoln political scientists John Hibbing and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse’s book “Stealth Democracy: Americans’ Beliefs About How Government Should Work” was cited in a July 18 Vox piece on the “do what you want” theory of politics. Hibbing and Theiss-Morse write that most people feel strongly about few, if any, political issues.
