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A country can never be too rich, too beautiful or too full of people

  • Written by Jay L. Zagorsky, Senior lecturer, Boston University
Trump isn’t the first to think a country can be full.Arthimedes/Shutterstock.com

“Our Country is FULL!” U.S. President Donald Trump recently tweeted.

He was referring to immigrants, but the rhetorical tweet begs the question: Can a country ever be full?

Economists like me have been arguing for centuries about the question but also a...

Read more: A country can never be too rich, too beautiful or too full of people

How a 'hard' Brexit would harm US banks, carmakers and drug companies

  • Written by Elham Mafi-Kreft, Clinical Associate Professor of Business Economics, Indiana University
A 'hard Brexit' appears increasingly likely. AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth

Nearly three years have passed since British voters chose to leave the European Union, a decision that created uncertainty and risks that have become a focal point of economic forecasters like me.

Yet the U.K. still doesn’t know what sort of Brexit it wants. Does the...

Read more: How a 'hard' Brexit would harm US banks, carmakers and drug companies

A defeat on offshore drilling extends the Trump administration's losing streak in court

  • Written by Alejandro E. Camacho, Professor of Law and Director, Center for Land Environment, and Natural Resources, University of California, Irvine
A polar bear crosses ice In Alaska's Chukchi Sea area, where a recent court ruling bars the Trump administration from greenlighting offshore drilling.NOAA/OER/Hidden Ocean 2016:The Chukchi Borderlands

The Trump administration’s push to boost fossil fuel extraction has received a major setback. On March 29, Judge Sharon Gleason of the U.S....

Read more: A defeat on offshore drilling extends the Trump administration's losing streak in court

Fox News isn’t the problem, it’s the media’s obsession with Fox News

  • Written by Michael J. Socolow, Associate Professor, Communication and Journalism, University of Maine
A security guard looks out of the the News Corp. headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, April 2017AP/Mary Altaffer

The American press seems fixated on Fox News and its owners, the Murdoch family.

Recently, The New York Times purported to explain “How Rupert Murdoch’s Empire of Influence Remade the World.” This followed The New...

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Campus free speech laws being enacted in many states, but some may do more harm than good

  • Written by Neal H. Hutchens, Professor of Higher Education, University of Mississippi
More states are passing laws that deal with campus free speech.Chad Zuber from shutterstock.com

Continuing a recent trend, more states are passing laws that deal with free speech rights on college campuses.

Action has also come at the federal level with President Donald Trump’s March 21 executive order on campus free speech. There have also...

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The pitfalls of the narcissistic NBA player

  • Written by Emily Grijalva, Assistant Professor of Organization and Human Resources, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Was Kyrie Irving's leadership style a factor in the Boston Celtics' struggles this season?AP Photo/Matt Slocum

Why do star players sometimes hurt their team’s performance?

Last season, the Boston Celtics made the Eastern Conference Finals without two of their stars, Gordon Hayward and Kyrie Irving.

With Hayward and Irving returning this year,...

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Why Americans appear more likely to support Christian refugees

  • Written by Joannie Tremblay-Boire, Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland
About a million Rohingya refugees are living in Bangladesh.AP Photo/Dar Yasin

An estimated 70 million people worldwide have been forcibly displaced, according to the United Nations. Every two seconds, someone in countries like Syria, Afghanistan, South Sudan and Myanmar is being forced to leave their home. Although 24.5 million of these people have...

Read more: Why Americans appear more likely to support Christian refugees

What makes the Impossible Burger look and taste like real beef?

  • Written by Mark R. O'Brian, Professor and Chair of Biochemistry, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
An Impossible Burger sidewalk sign in San Francisco. Chris Allan/Shutterstock.com

People eat animals that eat plants. If we just eliminate that middle step and eat plants directly, we would diminish our carbon footprint, decrease agricultural land usage, eliminate health risks associated with red meat and alleviate ethical concerns over animal...

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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...

Read more: Migrants' stories: Why they flee

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