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US health care system: A patchwork that no one likes

  • Written by Simon Haeder, Assistant Professor of Political Science, West Virginia University
imageSenator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, considered a powerful dealmaker, failed to get the necessary votes to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. AP Photo/Andrew Harnik

Almost all parties agree that the health care system in the U.S., which is responsible for about 17 percent of our GDP, is badly broken. Soaring costs, low quality,...

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A statistical fix for the replication crisis in science

  • Written by Valen E. Johnson, University Distinguished Professor and Department Head of Statistics, Texas A&M University
imageMany scientific studies aren't holding up in further tests.A and N photography/Shutterstock.com

In a trial of a new drug to cure cancer, 44 percent of 50 patients achieved remission after treatment. Without the drug, only 32 percent of previous patients did the same. The new treatment sounds promising, but is it better than the standard?

That...

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The difference between cybersecurity and cybercrime, and why it matters

  • Written by Roderick S. Graham, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Old Dominion University
imageConfidence scams carried out online are still rampant.R. Stevens/CREST Research, CC BY-NC-SA

A Texas woman in her 50s, let’s call her “Amy,” met a man online calling himself “Charlie.” Amy, who lived in Texas, was in a bad marriage. Charlie said he was a businessman and a Christian, and wooed her. “He was saying...

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Why is there so little research on guns in the US? 5 questions answered

  • Written by Lacey Wallace, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Pennsylvania State University
imageWith no money to research guns, there's no evidence to base policy on.Håkan Dahlström, CC BY

When Stephen Paddock opened fire Oct. 1 on concertgoers in Las Vegas, killing 59, the city became the unfortunate host of the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. Investigators are still trying to piece together the events that took place...

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How media sexism demeans women and fuels abuse by men like Weinstein

  • Written by Virginia García Beaudoux, Professor of Political Communication and Public Opinion, University of Buenos Aires
imageAdvertising continues to portray women as charming keepers of the home, making it harder to succeed at work.Andrea44/flickr, CC BY-SA

The sexual abuse scandal currently embroiling media mogul Harvey Weinstein has stunned the United States, with Hollywood and the fashion industry declaring that “this way of treating women ends now.”

As an...

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Solving the political ad problem with transparency

  • Written by Seth Copen Goldstein, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
imageThe American people used to get more information in common.sirtravelalot/Shutterstock.com

Almost all the content and advertising on the internet is customized to each viewer. The impact of this kind of content distribution on the 2016 election is still being explored. But, we can certainly say that the campaigns used this to say different things to...

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What post-Weinstein Hollywood can learn from '90s sexual harassment training

  • Written by Elizabeth C. Tippett, Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Oregon

When accounts of Harvey Weinstein’s harassment emerged, they reminded me of vignettes from harassment videos made by professional human resources trainers in the 1980s and 1990s.

A female employee would be invited to some nonwork location on a professional pretext (here, Weinstein’s hotel suite). Then the man would proposition the...

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Three ways Trump's nuclear strategy misunderstands the mood in Iran

  • Written by Nancy Gallagher, Interim Director at the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM) and a Senior Research Scholar at the School of Public Policy, University of Maryland
imagePeople walk around the old main bazaar of Tehran, in Iran, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2017. AP Photo/Vahid Salemi

U.S. President Donald Trump has refused to tell Congress that the 2015 nuclear deal the Obama administration reached with Iran and five other world powers still serves U.S. national interests. This refusal, or decertification, went against top...

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