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Mexico is bleeding. Can its new president stop the violence?

  • Written by Angélica Durán-Martínez, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador with the families of the 43 students who went missing in 2014 in Guerrero state. He has ordered a truth commission to investigate the unsolved disappearance.Reuters/Edgard Garrido

Nearly 34,000 people were murdered in Mexico last year, according to new government statistics — the...

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Together, more heat and more carbon dioxide may not alter quantity or nutritional quality of crops

  • Written by Carl Bernacchi, Associate Professor of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Soybean Free Air Concentration Enrichment (SoyFACE) research facility at the University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignClaire Benjamin/RIPE Project, CC BY-ND

Researchers around the world are trying to figure out ways to feed a growing population, which is estimated to reach nearly 10 billion by 2050. But as humanity struggles to increase crop...

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How to have productive disagreements about politics and religion

  • Written by Larisa Heiphetz, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Columbia University
Psychology research suggests a new tool for your ‘disagreement toolbox.’ Dragon Images/Shutterstock.com

In the current polarized climate, it’s easy to find yourself in the midst of a political disagreement that morphs into a religious argument. People’s religious affiliation predicts their stances on abortion, immigration and...

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Stressed out by shutdown chaos? 4 evidence-based tools to help you cope

  • Written by Laurel Mellin, Associate Clinical Professor of Family & Community Medicine and Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco
Travelers at Miami International Airport on Jan. 18, 2019 wait in long lines, in part due to the government shutdown. Lynne Sladky/AP Photo

Despite the short-term relief from the government shutdown, there’s a growing feeling that what appears to be political chaos in Washington is rippling across the country.

People needn’t try to...

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How frigid polar vortex blasts are connected to global warming

  • Written by Jennifer Francis, Visiting Professor, Rutgers University
Bundled up against the cold in downtown Chicago, Sunday, Jan. 27, 2019. AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh

A record-breaking cold wave is sending literal shivers down the spines of millions of Americans. Temperatures across the upper Midwest are forecast to fall an astonishing 50 degrees Fahrenheit (28 degrees Celsius) below normal this week – as low as 35...

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What are Muslim prayer rugs?

  • Written by Rose S. Aslan, Assistant Professor of Religion, California Lutheran University
Muslims can pray anywhere in the world using the prayer carpet.AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes

In a recent tweet, President Trump stated that ranchers have been finding prayer rugs scattered along the U.S.-Mexico border. Late last year, he tweeted that “criminals and unknown Middle Easterners” were mixed in with the caravan heading to the...

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Community schools score key victory in LA teachers strike

  • Written by Karen Hunter Quartz, Researcher, University of California, Los Angeles
Parents accompany their children to school on the first day back after a teachers' strike in Los Angeles.AP Photo/Richard Vogel

One of the most enduring images of the 2019 Los Angeles teachers strike will be of Roxana Dueñas.

Dueñas teaches history at Roosevelt High School in East Los Angeles. It was her image that was used on a strike...

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Rap music and threats of violence: A case for the Supreme Court to decide

  • Written by Clay Calvert, Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication, University of Florida
Jamal Knox, the rapper known as 'Mayhem Mal.'Screenshot, KDKA CBS Pittsburgh

Kendrick Lamar won a Pulitzer Prize last year and Eminem set a record in 2019 for streams on Spotify. But the acceptance and embrace of rap music in mainstream culture isn’t shared by everyone – and that sometimes includes the police.

Controversy between the...

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How Gates Foundation's push for 'high-quality' curriculum will stifle teaching

  • Written by Nicholas Tampio, Associate Professor of Political Science, Fordham University
A new grant from the Gates Foundation to promote 'high-quality' curriculum comes with strings that could constrain teachers.Kues/www.shutterstock.com

For much of American history, local school districts had a large amount of discretion over what they taught and how.

In my book on the Common Core, I show how the national education standards in...

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The shutdown took so long to end because it became a moral issue

  • Written by Timothy Ryan, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
President Donald Trump speaks in the Rose Garden.AP Photo/ Evan Vucci

Even as the partial shutdown of the federal government came to an end, many Americans were left baffled.

Why didn’t Congress and the president strike a deal sooner?

Hundreds of thousands of federal employees were asked to work without pay because of a fight over a border...

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  4. A proposal to reduce vaccine exemptions while respecting rights of conscience
  5. Rural people with disabilities are still struggling to recover from the recession
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  7. How will generations that didn't experience the Holocaust remember it?
  8. Vital economic data was likely lost during the shutdown – here's why it matters to all Americans
  9. How corruption in forensic science is harming the criminal justice system
  10. In Haiti, climate aid comes with strings attached
  11. Live cargo: How scientists pack butterflies, frogs and sea turtles for safe travels
  12. 3 ways to make your voice heard besides protesting
  13. Why the Davos elites are still relevant
  14. I studied buttons for 7 years and learned these 5 lessons about how and why people push them
  15. University scientists feel the pain of the government shutdown, too
  16. Are federal workers being forced into involuntary servitude?
  17. There's a wider scandal suggested by the Trump investigations
  18. You can't control what you can't find: Detecting invasive species while they're still scarce
  19. Not so long ago, cities were starved for trees
  20. Gene drive technology makes mouse offspring inherit specific traits from parents
  21. Digital technology offers new ways to teach lessons from the Holocaust
  22. What Trump and Pelosi can learn from a different kind of shutdown that crippled the nation
  23. Venezuela power struggle plunges nation into turmoil: 3 essential reads
  24. Data privacy rules in the EU may leave the US behind
  25. Why it's wrong to label students 'at-risk'
  26. How to show gratitude to TSA workers
  27. Personal diplomacy has long been a presidential tactic, but Trump adds a twist
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  30. Women are better than men at the free throw line
  31. We can't save everything from climate change – here's how to make choices
  32. The Trump administration wants to tighten SNAP work requirements, bypassing Congress
  33. Why paper maps still matter in the digital age
  34. Are microbes causing your milk allergy?
  35. Shutdown's economic impact is a forceful reminder of why government matters
  36. Lessons from 'Spider-Man': How video games could change college science education
  37. Nazis and communists tried it too: Foreign interference in US elections dates back decades
  38. It's cold! A physiologist explains how to keep your body feeling warm
  39. Howard Thurman – the Baptist minister who had a deep influence on MLK
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  41. America's public schools seldom bring rich and poor together – and MLK would disapprove
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  44. Bison are back, and that benefits many other species on the Great Plains
  45. How Central American migrants helped revive the US labor movement
  46. Food is medicine: How US policy is shifting toward nutrition for better health
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