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Garbage collection in Syria is crucial to fighting the Islamic State

  • Written by Mark Ward, Lecturer, University of Washington
Garbage piled up in the opposition-held city of Afrin, Syria, in March 2018.AP/Lefteris Pitarakis

Just a few years ago, I was a diplomat working on the Turkish-Syrian border. My job was managing the U.S. government team responsible for delivering aid to Syrian towns and cities loyal to the Syrian opposition.

These were towns that had turned against...

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States are on the front lines of fighting inequality

  • Written by Christopher Witko, Associate Director and Professor, School of Public Policy, Pennsylvania State University
Rally in support of raising the minimum wage in University City, Mo. AP Photo/Jeff Roberson

When Democrats regained control of the U.S. House of Representatives, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., almost immediately took aim at America’s growing income inequality by recommending a 70 percent tax rate on income over US$10 million.

Income...

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New debit card for federal student loan borrowers could save money, but concerns linger

  • Written by Lewis Mandell, Professor Emeritus, Finance Department, School of Management, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
New debit cards being issued by the U.S. Department of Education could be used to track student spending.sakhorn/www.shutterstock.com

The U.S. Department of Education is about to pilot test a new debit card for students who get federal student loans.

For the federal government, it means less hassle and a way to get a glimpse at whether students are...

Read more: New debit card for federal student loan borrowers could save money, but concerns linger

Why victims of Catholic priests need to hear more than confessions

  • Written by Joan M. Cook, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University
Pope Francis speaking to cardinals Dec. 21, 2018 at the Vatican. Filippo Monteforte/AP Pool

Pope Francis has criticized U.S. Catholic bishops for how they handled the pervasive sexual abuse of children by predatory priests. He even called for a new management method and mindset in dealing with this crisis. Most recently, the pope summoned...

Read more: Why victims of Catholic priests need to hear more than confessions

Ulterior motives may lurk behind new debit card for federal student loan borrowers

  • Written by Lewis Mandell, Professor Emeritus, Finance Department, School of Management, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
New debit cards being issued by the U.S. Department of Education could be used to track student spending.sakhorn/www.shutterstock.com

The U.S. Department of Education is about to pilot test a new debit card for students who get federal student loans.

For the federal government, it means less hassle and a way to get a glimpse at whether students are...

Read more: Ulterior motives may lurk behind new debit card for federal student loan borrowers

Trump's reference to Wounded Knee evokes the dark history of suppression of indigenous religions

  • Written by Rosalyn R. LaPier, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, The University of Montana
Wounded Knee Memorial at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.AP Photo/Russell Contreras

President Trump evoked the Wounded Knee massacre in a recent tweet. He was reacting to an Instagram video that Sen. Elizabeth Warren posted on New Year’s Eve.

There’s been considerable criticism of the president’s inaccurate portrayal of Native American...

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Leaders always 'manufacture' crises, in politics and business

  • Written by Bert Spector, Associate Professor of International Business and Strategy at the D'Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University
Trump recently called the border a crisis during a televised address. AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster

“This is a humanitarian crisis, a crisis of the heart and a crisis of the soul.”

That’s how President Donald Trump framed his demand for funds to build a “border wall” and end the partial government shutdown. That declaration...

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Toward a circular economy: Tackling the plastics recycling problem

  • Written by Margaret Sobkowicz, Associate Professor of Plastics Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell
An escalator with a pile of plastic bottles at the factory for processing and recycling. Alba_alioth/Shutterstock.com

Why has the world continued to increase consumption of plastic materials when at the same time, environmental and human health concerns over their use have grown?

One answer is they are immensely useful to humankind, and despite...

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Many painful returns: Coping with crummy gifts

  • Written by Deborah Y. Cohn, Associate Professor of Marketing, New York Institute of Technology
Gee, you shouldn't have.Happy Stock Photo/Shutterstock.com

What happens to the gifts you get? I’m not talking about the ones that you really adore. I mean the rest of them – the ones you can’t or don’t want to use, or even hate.

The problem doesn’t end when you’ve awkwardly thanked someone and thrown away the...

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Offices are too hot or too cold – is there a better way to control room temperature?

  • Written by Carol Menassa, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan
Someone's too hot and someone's too cold.Collage by The Conversation, combining images by Monika Wisniewska and Antonio Guillem/Shutterstock.com, CC BY-ND

In any office, home or other shared space, there’s almost always someone who’s too cold, someone who’s too hot – and someone who doesn’t know what the fuss around...

Read more: Offices are too hot or too cold – is there a better way to control room temperature?

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  6. Why privatizing the VA or other essential health services is a bad idea
  7. 3 reasons to pay attention to the LA teacher strike
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  10. Change your phone settings so Apple, Google can't track your movements
  11. The 2019 government shutdown is just the latest reason why poor people can't bank on the safety net
  12. How one German city developed – and then lost – generations of math geniuses
  13. Chicago, New York discounted most public input in expanding bike systems
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  16. If Trump declares a national emergency, could Congress or the courts reverse it?
  17. Science gets shut down right along with the federal government
  18. How Viktor Orban degraded Hungary's weak democracy
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  20. The quiet threat inside 'internet of things' devices
  21. Calling it a 'war on science' has consequences
  22. Federal workers begin to feel pain of shutdown as 800,000 lose their paychecks
  23. Virginia's uranium mining battle flips traditional views of federal and state power
  24. Mapping the world's 'blue carbon' hot spots in coastal mangrove forests
  25. The politics of fear: How fear goes tribal, allowing us to be manipulated
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  27. The forgotten legacy of gay photographer George Platt Lynes
  28. How a government shutdown affects the economy
  29. Hearing hate speech primes your brain for hateful actions
  30. Renewed space rivalry between nations ignores a tradition of cooperation
  31. Remembering American saint Elizabeth Seton's legacy and how it continues to inspire work with immigrants
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  33. With foreign bureaus slashed, freelancers are filling the void – at their own risk
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  37. The science of the deal: A negotiation expert explains how Trump and the Democrats could both end the shutdown with a win
  38. Trump calls border a 'crisis of the soul': 3 scholars react to his Oval Office address
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