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Why it's hard to remove, or even diagnose, mentally ill or unstable presidents

  • Written by John Rogan, Visiting Clinical Professor of Law, Fordham University
Richard Nixon flashes the victory sign on the night he received the Republican nomination for president Aug. 9, 1968 in Miami.AP File/AP Photo

In the wake of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, members of Congress set out to update the procedures for handling an unable president. They soon realized that some situations would be far...

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Migrants' stories: Why they flee

  • Written by Anthony W. Fontes, Assistant Professor of Human Security, American University School of International Service
A man hugs his family before leaving for the U.S. border with a migrant caravan from San Salvador, El Salvador, Jan. 16, 2019. AP/Salvador Melendez

Massive influxes of Central American families seeking asylum in the United States are overwhelming U.S. immigration facilities.

The crisis along the U.S. southern border led directly to the forced resig...

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Does legalizing marijuana help or harm Americans? Weighing the statistical evidence

  • Written by Liberty Vittert, Visiting Assistant Professor in Statistics, Washington University in St Louis
More states are giving marijuana the green light.r.classen/shutterstock.com

The legalization of marijuana has been a topic of contention and confusion for both sides of the debate.

The federal government still deems it illegal. But marijuana has been legalized for recreational use in 10 states and the District of Columbia, and a further 21 broadly...

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An analysis of nearly 4 million pitches shows just how many mistakes umpires make

  • Written by Mark T. Williams, James E. Freeman Lecturer in Management, Boston University
Umpire Quinn Wolcott signals a strike out during an at-bat by Toronto Blue Jays' Josh Thole.AP Photo/Ted S. Warren

Baseball is back, and fans can anticipate another season of amazing catches, overpowering pitching, tape-measure home runs – and, yes, controversial calls that lead to blow-ups between umpires and players.

Home plate umpires are...

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For the 'political-infotainment-media complex,' the Mueller investigation was a gold mine

  • Written by Matthew Jordan, Associate Professor of Media Studies, Pennsylvania State University
In the first year of 'Russiagate' coverage, the combined profits from Fox News, MSNBC and CNN increased by 13 percent.Nick Lehr/The Conversation

Almost 60 years ago, President Dwight Eisenhower warned of a new force that fed off and profited from Cold War paranoia: the military-industrial complex.

Over the past couple of years, with Russia...

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The replication crisis is good for science

  • Written by Eric Loken, Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Connecticut
Some studies don't hold up to added scrutiny. PORTRAIT IMAGES ASIA BY NONWARIT/shutterstock.com

Science is in the midst of a crisis: A surprising fraction of published studies fail to replicate when the procedures are repeated.

For example, take the study, published in 2007, that claimed that tricky math problems requiring careful thought are...

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Don't blame Sharia for Islamic extremism -- blame colonialism

  • Written by Mark Fathi Massoud, Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz

Warning that Islamic extremists want to impose fundamentalist religious rule in American communities, right-wing lawmakers in dozens of U.S. states have tried banning Sharia, an Arabic term often understood to mean Islamic law.

These political debates – which cite terrorism and political violence in the Middle East to argue that Islam is...

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Catholic missionaries are evangelizing on college campuses and trying to bring back the 'nones'

  • Written by Katherine Dugan, Assistant Professor of Religion, Springfield College
A group of millennials are working to bring Catholic religious practice to American college campuses.Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston , CC BY

More than 20% of all adults and over a third of millennials in the United States are not affiliated with a religion. For at least a decade, this number has been on the rise.

Sexual abuse by clergy and a...

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Too many airplane systems rely on too few sensors

  • Written by Carlos Varela, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Planes have many sensors, supplying all kinds of useful data.vaalaa/Shutterstock.com

The apparent connection between fatal airplane crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia centers around the failure of a single sensor. I know what that’s like: A few years ago, while I was flying a Cessna 182-RG from Albany, New York, to Fort Meade, Maryland, my...

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In the name of 'amateurism,' college athletes make money for everyone except themselves

  • Written by Jasmine Harris, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Ursinus College
College athletes are prohibited from profiting from their performance.Jessica Hill/AP

As millions of people tune in to watch the Final Four, much of their focus will be on the numbers on the scoreboard. But a March 2019 report from U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut, calls attention to numbers of a different sort.

The report –...

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