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Violence against the media isn't new – history shows why it largely disappeared and has now returned

  • Written by Jennifer E. Moore, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Minnesota Duluth
The Capital Gazette in Annapolis lost five staffers in a shootingAP/Patrick Semansky

Another news outlet has been attacked in the United States.

A man rammed his car repeatedly into Fox affiliate KDFW in Dallas, Texas, on Sept. 5. We can now add this to the growing list of recent attacks on — and violent threats to — the media.

A man...

Read more: Violence against the media isn't new – history shows why it largely disappeared and has now returned

Green Bay Packers fans love that their team doesn't have an owner – just don't call it 'communism'

  • Written by Alan J. Kellner, PhD Candidate in Political Science, Northwestern University

In July, I was walking with my parents through the newly constructed Titletown District in Green Bay, Wisconsin, a new community development across the street from Lambeau Field, where the Green Bay Packers play their home games. It features a local brewpub, a boutique hotel, free outdoor games like foosball and shuffleboard and a large practice...

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Kavanaugh's 'judge as umpire' metaphor sounds neutral but it's deeply conservative

  • Written by William Blake, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh invoked baseball to explain his judicial philosophy at his confirmation hearing.

“A good judge,” he said in his opening statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Sept. 4, “must be an umpire – a neutral and impartial arbiter who favors no litigant or policy.”

This is...

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Ten years of Large Hadron Collider discoveries are just the start of decoding the universe

  • Written by Todd Adams, Professor of Physics, Florida State University
The activity during a high-energy collision at the CMS control room of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, at their headquarters outside Geneva, Switzerland. AP Photo

Ten years! Ten years since the start of operations for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), one of the most complex machines ever created. The LHC is the world’s...

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Consejos para preparar almuerzos saludables para niños, sin estrés

  • Written by Molly Paulson, Clinical Instructor, Georgia State University
Un plato principal de carbohidratos y proteínas complejos es importante para el almuerzo de los niños; se puede complementar con frutas, vegetales y agua.baibaz/Shutterstock.com

Con el comienzo del curso escolar, es hora de comenzar a pensar cómo preparar el almuerzo que su hijo llevará a la escuela.

Para muchos padres...

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How passports evolved to help governments regulate your movement

  • Written by John Torpey, Presidential Professor of Sociology and History, City University of New York
A security officer checks a traveler's passport.AP Photo/Patrick Semansky

The Trump administration is denying passports to U.S. citizens who live in Texas near the U.S.-Mexico border, according to news reports.

The administration is accusing applicants of having inadequate documentation of their birth on U.S. soil, and refusing to issue them...

Read more: How passports evolved to help governments regulate your movement

Key internet connections and locations at risk from rising seas

  • Written by Carol Barford, Associate Scientist; Director, Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The process of laying internet cables on the sea floor is particularly sensitive at the coastlines.Gail Johnson/Shutterstock.com

Despite whimsical ads about computing “in the cloud,” the internet lives on the ground. Data centers are built on land, and most of the physical elements of the internet – such as the cables that connect...

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Canada will be part of Trump's new NAFTA – corporate lobbyists on both sides of the border will ensure it

  • Written by Christina Fattore, Associate Professor of Political Science, West Virginia University

The announcement last month that the U.S. and Mexico had reached an agreement to replace NAFTA without Canada surprised trade experts around the globe. A deadline of Aug. 31 was set for the Canadians to join or be left out in the cold – and hit with fresh tariffs.

The news was stunning because negotiators for all three countries had been...

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Fossil fuel divestment debates on campus spotlight the societal role of colleges and universities

  • Written by Jennie C. Stephens, Dean’s Professor of Sustainability Science & Policy and Director, School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs, Northeastern University
Divestment rally at Harvard University, April 17, 2015.350.org, CC BY-NC-SA

As a new academic year begins after a summer of deadly heat waves, wildfires, droughts and floods, many college students and faculty are debating whether and how to get involved in climate politics.

Climate advocacy has become well established on U.S. campuses over the past...

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Discovering the ancient origin of cystic fibrosis, the most common genetic disease in Caucasians

  • Written by Philip Farrell, Professor of Pediatrics and Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The airways inside the human lung.Magic mine/Shutterstock.com

Imagine the thrill of discovery when more than 10 years of research on the origin of a common genetic disease, cystic fibrosis (CF), results in tracing it to a group of distinct but mysterious Europeans who lived about 5,000 years ago.

CF is the most common, potentially lethal, inherited...

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