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Dear Republicans: Do your patriotic duty

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imageA supporter of Ted Cruz holds his book and a US flag.Mark Kauzlarich/REUTERS

Dear Republicans:

For the past week, we have been reminded of the precarious position in which we find ourselves as Americans. The situation I’m referring to is the latest poll numbers for the GOP candidates.

What has drawn the lion’s share of the attention to...

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What's the real risk from consumer drones this holiday season?

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imageYay, a holiday drone! What could possibly go wrong?PhOtOnQuAnTiQuE, CC BY-NC-ND

This holiday season, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is estimating that over one million small “Unmanned Aerial Systems” (sUAS’s) – drones, to the rest of us – will be sold to consumers. But as hordes of novice pilots take to the...

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Paris Agreement on climate change: the good, the bad, and the ugly

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At 7:27 pm local time Saturday, December 12th, 2015, a new Paris Agreement on global climate change was born after four years of taxing labor. Its much-anticipated birth was quickly followed by copious self-congratulations by many of the parents in the room who almost all were overcome by joy and bursting with pride.

Praise heaped upon newborns...

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Promises, promises: how legally durable are Obama's climate pledges?

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imageLocked down? Obama, with Secretary of State John Kerry, committed to further cuts in emissions from the US at Paris climate summit.Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

As part of a global agreement on climate change, the US has pledged, among other things, to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 26%-28% compared to 2005 levels by the year 2025. But...

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Why today's long STEM postdoc positions are effectively anti-mother

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imageDoes it need to be so hard to be a mom and a professor?Quinn Dombrowski, CC BY-SA

The fallen leaves remind, once again, that the Hunger Games of securing coveted tenure-track academic jobs have begun. This is my second year serving on the Northwestern University Department of Neurobiology Search Committee, and we’ve received nearly 300...

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Studying gun violence is the only way to figure out how to stop it – but we don't

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imageA protest outside the National Shooting Sports Foundation in Newtown, Connecticut, March 28 2013. Michelle McLoughlin/Reuters

It seems that not a week passes without a new report of a mass shooting in the United States.

The gun epidemic, long simmering, has in the past few weeks seemed to reach a new phase in the public discourse. The shootings in...

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Why Every Student Succeeds Act still leaves most vulnerable kids behind

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imageWhat will the new law change?woodleywonderworks, CC BY

For a decade, congressional attempts to revise the embattled 2001 No Child Left Behind Act – a reauthorization of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) – hit a brick wall.

On December 10 2015, that changed. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), passed by the House...

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Sinatra's films shattered the postwar myth of the white American male

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imageIn The Man with the Golden Arm, Frank Sinatra plays a poker-dealing junkie.

Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday on December 12 is being celebrated with all the requisite fanfare: Alex Gibney’s HBO documentary Sinatra: All or Nothing at All, CBS' Sinatra 100 All-Star Grammy Concert, exhibits at the Lincoln Center and Grammy Museum, a London...

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Scholars: Trump's call to 'ban Muslims' is un-American

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imageTrump calls for a ban on Muslims entering the US.Randall Hill/Reuters

Q: Presidential candidate Donald Trump called Monday for barring all Muslims from entering the US. He previously called for surveillance against mosques and a database for all Muslims living the US. What can you tell us about the history of attacks against Muslims in the US? Are...

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