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Qué piensan realmente los hispanos acerca de Trump

  • Written by Stella Rouse, Associate Professor of Government and Politics and Director of the Center for American Politics and Citizenship, University of Maryland
Hispanic voters are not a monolith.Baiterek Media/shutterstock.com

Por primera vez en la historia se espera que los votantes hispanos sean el grupo minoritario más grande en el electorado del año 2020, según el Centro de Investigación Pew.

Con su reelección en la mira, no es sorprendente que el presidente Donald...

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What happens when a big business tries to take over and rename a neighborhood

  • Written by Raechel A. Portelli, Assistant Professor of Geography, Michigan State University
Do you know where you are right now?Ana de Sousa/shutterstock.com

What if Google tried to rename your neighborhood?

That happened to some Californians in spring 2018, when Google Maps changed the moniker of three San Francisco neighborhoods – Rincon Hill, South Beach and South Market – to “East Cut.”

Given the extensive reach...

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How 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' inspired the cathedral's 19th-century revival

  • Written by Julia Walker, Assistant Professor of Art History, Binghamton University, State University of New York
The gargoyles that sit on Notre Dame today were installed as a nod to the cathedral's past.Noemiseh91/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

On April 15, people around the world watched in horror as a voracious fire consumed the medieval wooden roof of Paris’s Notre Dame cathedral and felled its spire.

The following day brought some measure of relief:...

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Did Trump obstruct justice? 5 questions Congress must answer

  • Written by David Orentlicher, Professor of Law and Co-Director, Health Law Program, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Pages from Robert Mueller's final report on the special counsel investigation into Donald Trump, which show heavy redaction by the Department of Justice.AP Photo/Jon Elswick

“If we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President of the United States did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state....

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How artificial intelligence systems could threaten democracy

  • Written by Steven Feldstein, Frank and Bethine Church Chair of Public Affairs & Associate Professor, School of Public Service, Boise State University

U.S. technology giant Microsoft has teamed up with a Chinese military university to develop artificial intelligence systems that could potentially enhance government surveillance and censorship capabilities. Two U.S. senators publicly condemned the partnership, but what the National Defense Technology University of China wants from Microsoft...

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Will Netflix eventually monetize its user data?

  • Written by Jason Mittell, Professor of Film & Media Culture, Middlebury
Netflix currently spends much more cash than it brings in, leading to consistent negative cash flow and a mountain of debt.sakhorn/Shutterstock.com

Even in the wake of a recent mixed earning report and volatile stock prices, Netflix remains the media success story of the decade. The company, whose user base has grown rapidly, now boasts almost 150...

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'You're unallocated!' and other BS companies use to obscure reality

  • Written by Kate Suslava, Assistant Professor of Management, Bucknell University

Corporate America has invented many ways to avoid letting the public know it’s laying people off – or telling employees themselves “You’re fired.”

Common parlance includes “downsizing,” “headcount management,” “restucturing” or even the unsightly “involuntary separation program...

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5 things to consider before you hire a tutor for your child

  • Written by Surani Joshua, Ph.D. Candidate in Mathematics Education, Arizona State University
Parents collectively spend billions on tutoring. Is it money well spent?New Africa from www.shutterstock.com

Private tutoring is a growing business, with people spending hundreds of billions of dollars. But is it worth it? And how does a person pick among all the options?

If you are considering hiring a tutor, here are five tips to keep in mind.

I...

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Who are Sri Lanka's Christians?

  • Written by Mathew Schmalz, Associate Professor of Religion, College of the Holy Cross
Sri Lankan army soldiers secure the area around St. Anthony's Shrine after a blast in Colombo.AP Photo/ Rohan Karunarathne

At least 200 people have been killed in several coordinated bomb attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter.

Several Christian communities spread across the island nation were targeted in the attack: Suicide bombers...

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To solve climate change and biodiversity loss, we need a Global Deal for Nature

  • Written by Greg Asner, Director, Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science and Professor, Arizona State University
An aerial photo of Borneo shows deforestation and patches of remaining forest.Greg Asner, CC BY-ND

Earth’s cornucopia of life has evolved over 550 million years. Along the way, five mass extinction events have caused serious setbacks to life on our planet. The fifth, which was caused by a gargantuan meteorite impact along Mexico’s...

Read more: To solve climate change and biodiversity loss, we need a Global Deal for Nature

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  4. When is dead really dead? Study on pig brains reinforces that death is a vast gray area
  5. Mueller report: How Congress can and will follow up on an incomplete and redacted document
  6. What happens next with the Mueller report? 3 essential reads
  7. A comedian who played a president on TV might actually become Ukraine's president
  8. A comedian who played a president on TV just became Ukraine's president
  9. Trump declares economic war on Cuba
  10. If my measles shot was years ago, am I still protected? 5 questions answered
  11. Bolsonaro's approval rating is worse than any past Brazilian president at the 100-day mark
  12. Brain scans help shed light on the PTSD brain, but they cannot diagnose PTSD
  13. As governments adopt artificial intelligence, there's little oversight and lots of danger
  14. Notre Dame's history is 9 centuries of change, renovation and renewal
  15. How Columbine became a blueprint for school shooters
  16. New cholesterol study may lead you to ask: Pass the eggs, or pass on the eggs?
  17. Should you apply to a college that has had a recent scandal?
  18. One year after Nicaraguan uprising, Ortega is back in control
  19. Abraham Lincoln, Joe Biden and the politics of touch
  20. Why Pete Buttigieg may be reviving progressive ideals of the Social Gospel Movement
  21. Russia isn't the first country to protest Western control over global telecommunications
  22. Sea creatures store carbon in the ocean – could protecting them help slow climate change?
  23. The new digital divide is between people who opt out of algorithms and people who don't
  24. A political stalemate over Puerto Rican aid is leaving all US disaster funding in limbo
  25. In Notre Dame fire, echoes of the 1837 blaze that destroyed Russia's Winter Palace
  26. The dirt on soil loss from the Midwest floods
  27. Boeing crashes and Uber collision show passenger safety relies on corporate promises, not regulators' tests
  28. What it means to ‘know your audience’ when communicating about science
  29. Journalism's Assange problem
  30. Marijuana legalization – a rare issue where women are more conservative than men
  31. How Hispanics really feel about Trump
  32. Brunei wants to punish gay sex with death by stoning – can boycotts stop it?
  33. Why Good Friday was dangerous for Jews in the Middle Ages and how that changed
  34. Top EPA advisers challenge long-standing air pollution science, threatening Americans' health
  35. A frenemy fungus provides clues about a new deadly one
  36. April 15 is the day tobacco companies pay $9 billion for tobacco illnesses, but is it enough?
  37. Retailers like Walmart are embracing robots – here's how workers can tell if they'll be replaced
  38. Mapping the US counties where traffic air pollution hurts children the most
  39. Leonardo joined art with engineering
  40. How the alt-right corrupts the Constitution
  41. Is 75 the new 65? Wealthy countries need to rethink what it means to be old
  42. Why LeBron James' I Promise School should be more like LeBron and not shy away from issues of race
  43. This small Mexican border town prizes its human and environmental links with the US
  44. The Mormon Church still doesn't accept same-sex couples – even if it no longer bars their children
  45. Civic crowdfunding reduces the risk of 'bikelash'
  46. Leonardo da Vinci saw in animals the ‘image of the world’
  47. Venezuela's crisis is a tragedy - but comedy gold for satire, cartoons and memes
  48. Why the Great Plains has such epic weather
  49. America and the world still need the WTO to keep trade and the global economy humming
  50. People who win big prizes shouldn’t get taxed when they give their windfalls away