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Sanders called JPMorgan's CEO America's 'biggest corporate socialist' – here's why he has a point

  • Written by Paul Adler, Professor of Management and Organization, Sociology and Environmental Studies, University of Southern California
JPMorgan's Dimon, center, recently criticized socialism.AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari

Sen. Bernie Sanders called JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon the “biggest corporate socialist in America today” in a recent ad.

He may have a point – beyond what he intended.

With his Dimon ad, Sanders is referring specifically to the bailouts JPMorgan...

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Violence and other forms of abuse against teachers: 5 questions answered

  • Written by Eric M. Anderman, Professor of Educational Psychology and Quantitative Research, Evaluation, and Measurement, The Ohio State University
Teachers can suffer abuse on the job.Krakenimages.com/Shutterstock.com

Concerns about violence and other forms of abuse in schools typically emphasize the safety of students. But teachers and other school staff also suffer acts of violence and abuse. A group of scholars on a task force organized by the American Psychological Association studyingviol...

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Soil carbon is a valuable resource, but all soil carbon is not created equal

  • Written by Jocelyn Lavallee, Research Scientist, Colorado State University
Planting cover crops, like this red clover in Sussex County, Delaware, can help return carbon to farm fields.Michele Dorsey Walfred/Flickr, CC BY

Human society is literally built on soil. It feeds the world and produces vital fuel and fiber. But most people rarely give soil a second thought.

Recently, though, soil has been getting some well-deserved...

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What's a church? That can depend on the eye of the beholder or paperwork filed with the IRS

  • Written by Samuel Brunson, Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago
This might be a church. Or not.Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock.com

In 2016, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association told the Internal Revenue Service that it no longer wanted to be treated merely as a tax-exempt religious organization, free from the obligation to pay taxes on its income. Instead, the association – a Charlotte, North...

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Re-creating live-animal markets in the lab lets researchers see how pathogens like coronavirus jump species

  • Written by Richard Bowen, ​Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University
Places where lots of animals come into contact can help pathogens move from species to species.Baloncici/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Nobody yet knows for sure the definitive origins of the newly recognized coronavirus now known as 2019-nCoV that’s currently spreading across the globe as a human respiratory pathogen. Early reports indicate...

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Fighting coronavirus fear with empathy: Lessons learned from how Africans got blamed for Ebola

  • Written by Kevin J.A. Thomas, Professor of Sociology, Demography, and African Studies, Pennsylvania State University
Decontee Sawyer, wife of Liberian government official Patrick Sawyer, a naturalized American who died from Ebola after traveling from Liberia to Nigeria, on July 29, 2014.AP Photo/Craig Lassig

With coronavirus cases exploding in China, the U.S. is once again responding to a global epidemic. Five years ago, when the Ebola virus infected more than...

Read more: Fighting coronavirus fear with empathy: Lessons learned from how Africans got blamed for Ebola

This is how ancient Rome's republic died – a classicist sees troubling parallels at Trump's impeachment trial

  • Written by Timothy Joseph, Associate Professor of Classics, College of the Holy Cross
Trump hugs the American flag at a 2019 convention of political conservatives. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images

The U.S. Senate has made its judgment in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, acquitting the president. Fifty two of 53 senators in the Republican majority voted to acquit the president on the abuse of power charge and all 53...

Read more: This is how ancient Rome's republic died – a classicist sees troubling parallels at Trump's...

Civility in politics is harder than you think

  • Written by Robert B. Talisse, W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tears up her copy of President Donald Trump's State of the Union speech.AP Photo/Patrick Semansky

When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tore up the text of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech in full public view, her supporters saw defiance of both his policies and his earlier refusal to shake her hand. But...

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Trump's excess and extravagance turned the State of the Union into an action movie

  • Written by Vanessa B. Beasley, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Vanderbilt University
President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union address at the Capitol on Feb. 4, 2020. OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images

State of the Union addresses are supposed to be boring speeches.

Actually, they are not required to be speeches at all. The U.S. Constitution requires only that the president “from time to time give to the...

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A plasma reactor zaps airborne viruses – and could help slow the spread of infectious diseases

  • Written by Herek Clack, Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan
Researchers Tian Xia and Zijie Lin test a plasma prototype for preventing airborne transmission of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus at a Michigan pig farm.Robert Coelius/Michigan Engineering, Communications & Marketing, CC BY-ND

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.

The big idea: It’s the...

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  38. Has Trump proposed a Middle East peace plan – or terms of surrender for the Palestinians?
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  41. The US economy produced about $21.7 trillion in goods and services in 2019 - but what does GDP really mean?
  42. The US economy produced about $21.7 trillion in goods and services in 2019 – but what does GDP really mean?
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