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The dark side of coffee: an unequal social and environmental exchange

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imageNot all is good on the 'technified' coffee farm. mckaysavage/flickr, CC BY-SA

The humble coffee bean is one of the most important and actively traded commodities in the world. It doesn’t take more than a glance at American coffee consumption stats to understand why.

In a 2015 Gallup poll, 64% of Americans reported...

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Arab Gulf states can outlast low oil prices, but expect foreign policy to shift

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imageOil-enriched kingdom: Saudi Arabia's Shaybah oilfield complex at night in the Rub' al-Khali desert.Ali Jarekji/Reuters

What might decreasing oil revenues mean for the Persian Gulf oil states? With low crude prices, high supply and global economic challenges, it is natural to wonder whether the level of dependence on...

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The streak of doubt that underlies ISIS' destructive acts of religious fervor

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imageAn image distributed by Islamic State militants purports to show the destruction of a Roman-era temple in Palmyra. REUTERS/Social Media

Slamming sledgehammers. Toppling statues. Decimated artifacts. Detonating charges that flash in an instant, but destroy centuries of history.

The images coming out of Palmyra, Syria,...

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Disappearing acts: reflecting on New Orleans 10 years after Katrina

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imageAn abandoned street in the Lower Ninth Ward in August 2006. . REUTERS/Lee Celano

In this season of anniversaries, no two are more stark in their parallels than Ferguson a year after the shooting of Michael Brown and New Orleans 10 years after Hurricane Katrina killed 1,800 and displaced thousands.

Both involve the...

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The New Orleans class of 2015: what it tells us and what it doesn't

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imageWhere did the children go post-Katrina?Lori Peek, Author provided

Hurricane Katrina led to the largest population displacement in the United States since the Dust Bowl. Over one-third of the 450,000 Louisiana and Mississippi residents displaced from their homes were children.

What happened to these children? Where did they...

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New Orleans’ recovery is an inspiring and cautionary tale for American cities

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imageTen years ago in the Seventh Ward of New Orleans. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

Ten years ago, the nation watched the near-total destruction of New Orleans, one of its most historic cities. New Orleans' lifeblood – its citizens – was pushed out by floodwaters, as its poorest residents clung to the city’s...

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Lessons for media educators from the Virginia on-air shootings

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imageCoverage of slain TV journalists from the station where they worked.WDBJ7

As a professor specializing in broadcast communication, I have tried to find lessons to teach aspiring journalists following the shooting of two TV journalists this week.

When I first heard about the shootings in Virginia of reporter Alison Parker and...

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Does the global stock market sell-off signal the BRIC age is already over?

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imageTime to reorder the flags? BRIC flags via www.shutterstock.com

Back in 2001, former Goldman Sachs chief economist Jim O’Neill coined the acronym BRIC to highlight the immense economic potential of the emerging markets of Brazil, Russia, India and China in the decades to come. They would be the economic engines of...

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  5. Still waiting for help: the lessons of Hurricane Katrina on poverty
  6. Back to school? A crucial time for kids' social and emotional development
  7. Activists misuse open records requests to harass researchers
  8. More audit transparency for investors makes a bitter proposal easier to swallow
  9. Weighing the impact of the Gold King Mine spill – and hundreds of inactive mines like it
  10. The Virginia on-air shootings: all too real
  11. What Don Quixote has to say to Spain about today's immigrant crisis
  12. 'Hamilton': the Broadway hip-hop musical every European leader should see
  13. Setting aside half the Earth for 'rewilding': the ethical dimension
  14. How understanding the prisoner's dilemma can help bridge liberal and conservative differences
  15. Obama, the Iran deal and Rawls' Theory of Justice
  16. Just how big has eSports become?
  17. Campaign of fear: Donald Trump's battle against birthright citizenship
  18. When it comes to New Orleans schools, who is making the choices?
  19. Three reasons why most of us shouldn't worry about the global stock market meltdown
  20. Sins of the Founding Fathers: The perils of judging past heroes by today's standards
  21. It's time for a more nuanced view of childhood poverty
  22. Climate change and Hurricane Katrina: what have we learned?
  23. Clinton's debt-free college comes with a price tag
  24. In the Lower Ninth Ward, a museum works to preserve a culture washed away
  25. Tsipras' second chance: Greece to hold elections
  26. Hillary Clinton's problem: she can't run against Washington
  27. Every song has a color – and an emotion – attached to it
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  29. For Asian-American students, stereotypes help boost achievement
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  35. Elon Musk’s Brave New World: it worked for Henry Ford; why not Tesla?
  36. Who says libraries are dying? They are evolving into spaces for innovation
  37. Turning a page: downsizing the campus book collections
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  39. A melting Arctic demands more – not less – research on earth science
  40. Our obsession with hereditary cancers didn't start when we discovered the breast cancer gene
  41. Cynicism about mobile advertising is greatly misplaced
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  44. In the push for marketable skills, are we forgetting the beauty and poetry of STEM disciplines?
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  46. Does selling oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve make sense now?
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  48. How the Federal Reserve keeps the US economy from bonking
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