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Howard University student protest: 3 questions answered

  • Written by Marybeth Gasman, Professor of Higher Education and Director Penn Center for Minority-Serving Institutions, University of Pennsylvania
Students have been protesting conditions at Howard University for several days.en.wikipedia.org

Editor’s note: In order to gain more perspective on the underlying issues of the student-led protest at Howard University, which is now in its seventh day, The Conversation reached out to Marybeth Gasman, a leading scholar on historically black...

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Stronger fuel standards make sense, even when gas prices are low

  • Written by John DeCicco, Research Professor, University of Michigan
Staffers listen to EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt discuss this policy reversal AP Photo/Andrew Harnik

It’s official: The Trump administration is reversing steps its predecessor had taken to curb gasoline and diesel consumption through stricter car pollution and fuel economy standards.

Rather than heed growing concerns about climate change,...

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Why China's soybean tariffs matter

  • Written by Ian Sheldon, Chair in Agricultural Marketing, Trade and Policy, The Ohio State University
A farmer harvest his soybean field in Loami, Ill. AP Photo/Seth Perlman

China’s plan to levy a 25 percent tariff on imports of U.S. soybeans may come as something of a surprise to most Americans. But to a professor of agricultural economics who studies international commodity markets for a living, this was not at all unexpected.

Even before...

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Sinclair-style employment contracts that require payment for quitting are very uncommon. Here's why

  • Written by Elizabeth C. Tippett, Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Oregon
Sinclair's employment contracts are kind of like a toll road. You have to pay to leave.oriontrail/Shutterstock.com

Sinclair Broadcast Group, a company that owns local news stations across the country, is itself in the news for requiring its newscasters to read a script about “one-sided news stories plaguing our country.”

While that kind...

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Why the Christian right opposes pornography but still supports Trump

  • Written by Kelsy Burke, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Stormy Daniels, an adult star, at a local restaurant in downtown New Orleans.AP Photo/Bill Haber

Many commentators have pointed out the hypocrisy of Christian leaders who claim a moral high ground while supporting President Donald Trump. The latest scandal involving an alleged extramarital affair with pornographic film star Stormy Daniels proves...

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Look up – it's a satellite!

  • Written by Christopher Palma, Associate Teaching Professor and Associate Department Head for Undergraduate Programs in Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University
The ISS sees us on Earth, but look up at night and you may see it, too.NASA , CC BY

I saw my first artificial satellite with my naked eyes during the summer of 1994. I was watching pieces of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact Jupiter from a small observatory with a college astronomy club when someone pointed up – away from the telescope –...

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Why are fewer and fewer Americans fixing their noses?

  • Written by Laurie Essig, Director and Professor of Gender, Sexuality, & Feminist Studies, Middlebury College
The nose isn't going under the knife like it once did.Lightspring/Shutterstock.com

Americans love cosmetic surgery.

Last year in the U.S., there were 1.8 million plastic surgeries and nearly 16 million nonsurgical procedures, like Botox – about one for every 20 Americans.

The US$8 billion industry now has entire beauty magazines devoted to...

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Behind the scenes of Venezuela's deadly prison fire

  • Written by Rebecca Hanson, Assistant Professor Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law and Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida
Families clashed with security forces outside the police station in Valencia, Venezuela, where nearly 70 prisoners died in a March 28 fire.AP Photo/Juan Carlos Hernandez

A fire killed scores of inmates after a riot in a Venezuelan jail in the early morning hours of March 28. Sixty-six detainees died in the flames, as did two female visitors.

The...

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Gaza's nonviolent protesters exploited by Hamas, but feared by Israel

  • Written by Dov Waxman, Professor of Political Science, International Affairs and Israel Studies, Northeastern University
Protesters pray in front of their tents during a demonstration along the Gaza Strip border with Israel, March 30, 2018AP/Adel Hana

Last Friday was an important day for Christians and Jews around the world. For Christians, it was Good Friday, the day that commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus; and for Jews, it was the beginning of the Passover...

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