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Adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census would cost some states their congressional seats

  • Written by Dudley Poston, Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University
An envelope containing a 2018 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident as part of the nation's only test run of the 2020 census.AP Photo/Michelle R. Smith

A partisan battle is brewing over the 2020 census.

In March 2018, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross instructed the U.S. Census Bureau to add a new question to the 2020 questionnaire, asking...

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Automated control system caused Ethiopia crash, flight data suggests

  • Written by Timothy Takahashi, Professor of Practice for Aerospace Engineering, Arizona State University
Wreckage from Ethiopia Airlines Flight 302 lies near the crash site outside Addis Ababa.AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene

Emerging evidence from the recent crash in Ethiopia suggests that malfunctioning automatic control systems overwhelmed the crew and doomed the flight. Based on my analysis, it appears that the Ethiopian Airlines crew followed the standard...

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Editing genes shouldn't be too scary -- unless they are the ones that get passed to future generations

  • Written by Eleanor Feingold, Professor of Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh
Gene editing a fertilized human embryo. Lightspring/Shutterstock.com

Gene editing is one of the scarier things in the science news, but not all gene editing is the same. It matters whether researchers edit “somatic” cells or “germline” cells.

Germline cells are the ones that propogate into an entire organism – either...

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Marijuana is a lot more than just THC - a pharmacologist looks at the untapped healing compounds

  • Written by James David Adams, Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Southern California
Assorted cannabis bud strains.Roxana Gonzalez/Shutterstock.com

Medical marijuana is legal in 33 states as of November 2018. Yet the federal government still insists marijuana has no legal use and is easy to abuse. In the meantime, medical marijuana dispensaries have an increasing array of products available for pain, anxiety, sex and more.

The...

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Why a college admissions racket would funnel bribes through a fake charity

  • Written by Sarah Webber, Associate Professor, Department of Accounting, University of Dayton
Many people aided by the campus admissions scheme wanted to attend the University of Southern California.AP Photo/Reed Saxon

Federal authorities are prosecuting dozens of suspects in the biggest college admissions scandal ever exposed. The joint FBI and IRS investigation, dubbed “Operation Varsity Blues,” uncovered millions of dollars...

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Why rich parents are more likely to be unethical

  • Written by David M. Mayer, Professor of Management & Organizations, University of Michigan
William 'Rick' Singer founder of the Edge College & Career Network, pleaded guilty to charges in a nationwide college admissions bribery scandal.AP Photo/Steven Senne

Federal attorneys have arrested 50 people in a college admission scam that allowed wealthy parents to buy their kids’ admission to elite universities. Prosecutors found...

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5 ways the Syrian revolution continues

  • Written by Wendy Pearlman, Associate Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University
A Syrian refugee child sits on the window of his family's trailer home painted by refugee artists in a camp near Mafraq, Jordan. AP/Raad Adayleh

Bashar al-Assad has “won” the war in Syria – or so many analysts tell us.

His regime has reconquered swaths of territory from rebel forces with starvation-and-surrender sieges, barrel...

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Why meritocracy is a myth in college admissions

  • Written by Morgan Polikoff, Associate Professor of Education, University of Southern California
Clockwise from top left, Georgetown University, Stanford University, Yale University, and University of California, Los Angeles. AP

The most damaging myth in American higher education is that college admissions is about merit, and that merit is about striving for – and earning – academic excellence. This myth is often used as a weapon...

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Jamaica leads in Richard Branson-backed plan for a Caribbean climate revolution

  • Written by Masaō Ashtine, Lecturer in Alternative Energy, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus
Turbines in Manchester Parish, Jamaica, the English-speaking Caribbean's first wind farm.Debbie Ann Powell

After hurricanes Irma and Maria tore through the Caribbean in 2017, devastating dozens of islands – including billionaire Richard Branson’s private isle, Necker Island – Branson called for a “Caribbean Marshall Plan.&rdq...

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Consumer rights are worthless without enforcement

  • Written by Anne Fleming, Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University
John F. Kennedy's 1962 speech inspired the modern consumer rights movement.AP Photo/Bill Allen

Exactly 57 years ago, President John F. Kennedy made an impassioned pitch for stronger consumer rights.

“If consumers are offered inferior products, if prices are exorbitant, if drugs are unsafe or worthless, if the consumer is unable to choose on...

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  5. How AIPAC could lose its bipartisan status
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  7. What will happen to Michael Jackson's legacy? A famed writer's fall could offer clues
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  11. Facebook's 'pivot' is less about privacy and more about profits
  12. How the Syrian uprising began and why it matters
  13. College cheating scandal shows why elite colleges should use a lottery to admit students
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  17. Trump's executive order on drone strikes sends civilian casualty data back into the shadows
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