Julian Zelizer: Explainer: How the coronavirus changed U.S. political conventions, perhaps forever (Reuters)and A Historian Looks At The Democratic National Convention (WBUR)
Sadaf Jaffer:Kamala Harris gives hope to South Asians in NJ who feel like ‘outsiders’ (Burlington County Times)
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Cornel West, professor emeritus:A Black Marxist Scholar Wanted to Talk About Race. It Ignited a Fury. (The New York Times) 
Keith Wailoo: Pediatrics Group Offers ‘Long Overdue’ Apology for Racist Past (The New York Times) 
Rory Truex:How To Teach China This Fall (China File)
Elizabeth Margulis:Time’s Arrow Flies through 500 Years of Classical Music, Physicists Say (Scientific American)
Pablo Debenedetti:Second critical point appears in two models of water (Physics World)
Corey Cusimano, postdoctoral research associate:People judge others to be more able to change their beliefs than they themselves are (PsyPost)
Jingyu Luo, graduate student:Long-lived particles get their moment (Symmetry)
Siyang Liu, undergraduate student:College towns face uncertain future (Cleveland.com)
Christiana Parreira, incoming postdoctoral associate:Another unity government won’t solve Lebanon’s crisis (The Washington Post)