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A brief history of North Carolina's 9th District contested election – in 1898

  • Written by Gideon Cohn-Postar, Graduate Student in History, Northwestern University
Mark Harris, Republican candidate in North Carolina's 9th congressional race.Travis Long/The News & Observer via AP, Pool

North Carolina is redoing an election to decide who will represent its 9th Congressional District, after an investigation uncovered evidence of election fraud during the 2018 midterms.

According to a recently completed...

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Amazon pullout from NYC shows the perils of partnerships between higher education and business

  • Written by Jason Owen-Smith, Professor of Sociology, Executive Director, Institute for Research on Innovation and Science (IRIS), University of Michigan
Amazon's plan to locate its second headquarters in New York City fell through.Mark Lennihan/AP

Amazon’s recent decision to pull out of plans to establish a new headquarters in New York City received a lot of attention. Much of it focused on whether the big tax breaks the company would have gotten as part of the deal were fair and reasonable.

No...

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Is a gene-edited animal a drug?

  • Written by Alison Van Eenennaam, Researcher, Department of Animal Science, University of California, Davis
Cows at the University of California, Davis beef research facility. Photo credit: Alison Van Eenennaam/ University of California, Davis, CC BY-NC-SA

We eat mutations every day. All the vegetables, grains, fruits and meat humans consume as part of their diet is jam-packed with DNA speckled with mutations and beneficial variations.

In 2017, the United...

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I build mathematical programs that could discover the drugs of the future

  • Written by Guowei Wei, Professor of Mathematics, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University
How will each drug interact with the proteins in your body?Evlakhov Valeriy/shutterstock.com

Discovering and designing a new drug is one of the most challenging tasks in the biological sciences. It takes over 10 years and about US$2.6 billion to bring an average drug to market.

The essential idea behind making a new drug is to create a molecule that...

Read more: I build mathematical programs that could discover the drugs of the future

Ospreys' recovery from pollution and shooting is a global conservation success story

  • Written by Alan Poole, Research associate, Cornell University
Osprey on a nesting platform in Massachusetts.Craig Gibson, CC BY-ND

A hundred years ago, a person wandering the back roads of coastal New England might have come across an odd sight: at the edge of a farmyard, cheek by jowl with pigs and chickens and cows, a tall pole topped with a massive stick nest. And standing guard in the nest, a large...

Read more: Ospreys' recovery from pollution and shooting is a global conservation success story

Gene-edited food regulations: whether it's a plant or animal shouldn't matter, but it does now

  • Written by Alison Van Eenennaam, Researcher, Department of Animal Science, University of California, Davis
Cows at the University of California, Davis beef research facility. Photo credit: Alison Van Eenennaam/ University of California, Davis, CC BY-NC-SA

We eat mutations every day. All the vegetables, grains, fruits and meat humans consume as part of their diet are jam-packed with DNA speckled with mutations and beneficial variations.

In 2017, the Unite...

Read more: Gene-edited food regulations: whether it's a plant or animal shouldn't matter, but it does now

Venezuela crisis: Trump threats to Maduro evoke bloody history of US intervention in Latin America

  • Written by Joseph J. Gonzalez, Associate Professor, Global Studies, Appalachian State University
An officer from Venezuela's National Guard lobs tear gas toward demonstrators during a standoff over humanitarian aid at the Colombian border on Feb. 23, 2019. Four protesters were killed.AP Photo/Fernando Llano

Violence erupted at the Venezuela-Colombia border over the delivery of humanitarian aid to Venezuela, killing four people and injuring 24 o...

Read more: Venezuela crisis: Trump threats to Maduro evoke bloody history of US intervention in Latin America

Trump vs. Congress: The emergency declaration should not be resolved in court

  • Written by William E. Nelson, Professor of Law, New York University
President Donald Trump declaring a national emergency to build a wall. AP/Evan Vucci

President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration to build a border wall has provoked a constitutional confrontation with Congress.

Here is the background for understanding what’s at stake – beginning more than two centuries ago.

A major problem for...

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How a Green New Deal could exploit developing countries

  • Written by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University

The Green New Deal has changed the conversation among progressive Democrats about how to deal with climate change, from simply managing a disaster to how to take advantage of an existential threat to build a more just society.

However, should this legislative concept be transformed from the hypothetical framework it is today into actual policies,...

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Chinese internet users turn to the blockchain to fight against government censorship

  • Written by Nir Kshetri, Professor of Management, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
For a small fee, anyone can post sensitive documents publicly on a blockchain.Ivan Marc/shutterstock.com

Thanks to blockchain, internet users have achieved some victories in the fight against China’s strict internet censorship.

A historic moment was made on April 23. Peking University‘s former student, Yue Xin, had penned a letter...

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