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What the National School Walkout says about schools and free speech

  • Written by Clay Calvert, Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication, University of Florida
Students from South Plantation High School, carrying placards, protest in support of gun control. Carlos Garcia/Reuters

Thousands of high school students across the nation left their classes March 14 precisely at 10 a.m. for 17 minutes.

The walkout served two purposes: to honor the 17 people – including 14 students – killed exactly one...

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Why do gun-makers get special economic protection?

  • Written by Allen Rostron, Associate Dean for Students and William R. Jacques Constitutional Law Scholar and Professor of Law, University of Missouri-Kansas City
A line of AR-15s are on display at gunmaker Daniel Defense in Georgia.AP Photo/Lisa Marie Pane

The gun industry is one of very few industries to have congressionally backed immunity from liabilty.

As a result, it’s been largely shielded from responsibility for the deaths and injuries its products cause, with few exceptions.

How did this...

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Could the open government movement shut the door on Freedom of Information?

  • Written by Suzanne J. Piotrowski, Associate Professor, School of Public Affairs and Administration (SPAA), Rutgers University Newark
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For democracy to work, citizens need to know what their government is doing. Then they can hold government officials and institutions accountable.

Over the last 50 years, Freedom of Information – or FOI – laws have been one of the most useful methods for...

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How Trump can avoid the setbacks that doomed North Korean nuclear talks in the past

  • Written by Jeffrey Fields, Associate Professor of the Practice of International Relations, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Headline of a planned summit between Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump.AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon

President Donald Trump is set to become the first sitting U.S. president to meet with a North Korean leader after accepting Kim Jong Un’s invitation for direct nuclear talks.

This will put Trump’s ability as a self-professed deal-maker to the test....

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Booze and basketball: Why binge drinking increases during March Madness

  • Written by Dustin R. White, Assistant Professor of Economics, Business Administration, University of Nebraska Omaha
North Carolina fans react while watching the Tar Heels play in the 2009 Final Four.Gerry Broome/AP

For every tip-off during March Madness, it’s a sure bet that students at the schools playing in the basketball tournament will be tipping up more beer bottles than usual.

This was one of the key findings of an analysis we conducted recently on...

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Why bland American beer is here to stay

  • Written by Ranjit Dighe, Professor of Economics, State University of New York Oswego
Americans tend to prefer beers that have corn or rice 'adjuncts,' or fillers.RetroClipArt/Shutterstock.com

Although craft beer has experienced explosive market growth over the past 25 years, the vast majority of Americans still don’t drink it.

Only about 1 in 8 beers sold in America is a craft beer. For the first time, the three best-selling...

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People are stranded in 'transit deserts' in dozens of US cities

  • Written by Junfeng Jiao, Assistant Professor of Community and Regional Planning and Director, Urban Information Lab, University of Texas at Austin
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Less than two months after President Donald Trump pledged in his State of the Union Address to “rebuild our crumbling infrastructure,” prospects look dim. The Trump administration is asking Congress for ideas about how to fund trillions of dollars in improvements that experts say are needed. Some...

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This March Madness, we're using machine learning to predict upsets

  • Written by Matthew Osborne, Ph.D Candidate in Mathematics, The Ohio State University
What surprises will this year's tournament have in store?AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall

“Beware the Ides of March.” Yes, it’s finally that time of year again: when the emperors of college basketball must watch their backs, lest the lowly bottom seeds of the tournament strike.

Before March 15, millions around the world will fill out...

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DeVos and the limits of the education reform movement

  • Written by Jack Schneider, Assistant Professor of Education, College of the Holy Cross
Betsy DeVos, shaking hands at a school choice rally shortly before she became education secretary in 2017AP Photo/Maria Danilova

Betsy DeVos exposed the education reform movement’s pitfalls in her highest-profile media appearance to date.

President Donald Trump’s education secretary got the job based on her years of advocacy for...

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Potent Mexico City earthquake was a rare 'bending' quake, study finds – and it could happen again

  • Written by Diego Melgar, Assistant Professor of Geophysics, University of Oregon

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Six months have passed since a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Mexico City, toppling 40 buildings and killing over 300, but the memory remains fresh. Condemned structures dot many neighborhoods, their facades crumbling. And after an earthquake 225 miles away in Oaxaca state shook the capital city again on Feb. 16, 2018, the...

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  4. Teaching students how to dissent is part of democracy
  5. Trump-Hitler comparisons too easy and ignore the murderous history
  6. Celebrating Marion Walter – and other unsung female mathematicians
  7. What is March Madness – and the nonprofit that manages the mayhem?
  8. Embroidering electronics into the next generation of 'smart' fabrics
  9. Adult human brains don't grow new neurons in hippocampus, contrary to prevailing view
  10. Is the NRA an educational organization? A lobby group? A nonprofit? A media outlet? Yes
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  12. Why child care costs more than college tuition - and how to make it more affordable
  13. There are dozens of sea snake species in the Indian and Pacific oceans, but none in the Atlantic or Caribbean. Why?
  14. Arbitration as a way out of the North Korean crisis
  15. Why child care costs more than college tuition – and how to make it more affordable
  16. Influenza's wild origins in the animals around us
  17. How to get more Americans to volunteer
  18. 100 years later, the madness of daylight saving time endures
  19. George W. Bush tried steel tariffs. It didn't work
  20. Want better sex? Try getting better sleep
  21. School shooters: What can law enforcement do to stop them?
  22. Why is sarcasm so difficult to detect in texts and emails?
  23. Why big bets on educational reform haven't fixed the US school system
  24. Let them eat carp: Fish farms are helping to fight hunger
  25. Perish not publish? New study quantifies the lack of female authors in scientific journals
  26. Very few women oversee US companies. Here's how to change that
  27. Female presidents don't always help women while in office, study in Latin America finds
  28. Why it's so important for kids to see diverse TV and movie characters
  29. Purdue-Kaplan deal blurs lines between for-profit and public colleges
  30. If polls say people want gun control, why doesn't Congress just pass it?
  31. West Virginia teachers win raise – but nation's rural teachers are still underpaid
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  33. Using blockchain to secure the 'internet of things'
  34. The dark side of daylight saving time
  35. Uneasy US-Mexico relationship will survive ambassador's resignation — but just barely
  36. While Mexico plays politics with its water, some cities flood and others go dry
  37. DACA deadline passes, Congress fails to act and fate of 'Dreamers' remains uncertain: 6 essential reads
  38. GOP tax law snubs US expats and 'accidental Americans'
  39. How vaccination is helping to prevent another flu pandemic
  40. Bioengineers today emphasize the crucial ingredient Dr. Frankenstein forgot – responsibility
  41. For tech giants, a cautionary tale from 19th century railroads on the limits of competition
  42. Most panhandling laws are unconstitutional since there's no freedom from speech
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  44. Cutting pollution in the Chesapeake Bay has helped underwater grasses rebound
  45. Pope Francis won't support women in the priesthood, but here's what he could do
  46. The Cold War's toxic legacy: Costly, dangerous cleanups at atomic bomb production sites
  47. Republicans attacking Obamacare, one more time
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  50. Could there be another Billy Graham?