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Measuring racial profiling: Why it's hard to tell where police are treating minorities unfairly

  • Written by Liberty Vittert, Visiting Assistant Professor in Statistics, Washington University in St Louis
Stop and frisk has often been criticized as a way to target minorities.Dmitry Kalinovsky/shutterstock.com

Donald Trump has waved the words “stop and frisk” around like a banner call to cure violent crime in American cities.

That means it’s time to take a look back at one of the primary criticisms of this police practice: racial...

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Commemorating the 'Great War,' America's forgotten conflict

  • Written by G. Kurt Piehler, Associate Professor of History, Florida State University
Doughboys fighting in France, 1917.Associated Press

World War I was still a living memory for most Americans when I was growing up in the 1960s and early 1970s.

Aging doughboys who had fought on the Western Front in 1917 and 1918 still marched on Veterans Day. These World War I enlisted men often referred to this holiday by its original name, Arm...

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Cómo entender las cifras en las noticias: Tres trucos estadísticos

  • Written by Liberty Vittert, Visiting Assistant Professor in Statistics, Washington University in St Louis
Si parece demasiado bueno para ser verdad, quizás lo sea._szefei/Shutterstock.com

Buena noticia: datos recientes del Bureau of Labor Statistics de Estados Unidos (Oficina de Estadísticas Laborales) indican que el desempleo nacional bajó del 3,9% en agosto 2018 al 3,7% en octubre.

Para recabar estos datos, lógicamente, la...

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5 things to know about Fabiano Caruana and his quest to become world chess champion

  • Written by Daaim Shabazz, Associate Professor of International Business, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
American grandmaster Fabiano Caruana, shown here at the 2017 Tradewise Gibraltar Masters tournament, could become the first American-born world chess champion since Bobby Fischer.David Llada/American Chess Magazine

When Bobby Fischer became the first American-born world chess champion in 1972, it spurred a dramatic increase in interest in chess....

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Americans got to vote on lots of energy measures in 2018 – and mostly rejected them

  • Written by Garth Heutel, Associate Professor of Economics, Georgia State University
Voters in Nevada, home to the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, voted to boost their state's renewable energy target.AP Photo/Chris Carlson

Americans in at least seven states voted on ballot initiatives during the 2018 midterm elections. These measures targeted everything from raising targets for the share of electricity drawn from...

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What mass shootings do to those not shot: Social consequences of mass gun violence

  • Written by Arash Javanbakht, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University
Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff Armando Viera, center, consoles an unidentified woman after a motorcade with the body of Ventura County Sheriff's Sgt. Ron Helus went by Nov. 8, 2018.Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo

Mass shootings seem to have become a sad new normal in the American life. They happen too often, and in very unexpected places. Concerts,...

Read more: What mass shootings do to those not shot: Social consequences of mass gun violence

Myths and unknowns about chess and the contenders for the World Chess Championship

  • Written by Alexey W. Root, Lecturer in Education, University of Texas at Dallas
Reigning Chess World Champion Magnus Carlsen, left, from Norway, and American challenger Fabiano Caruana will face off in the World Chess Championship, which begins Nov. 9 in London.Matt Dunham/AP

If Fabiano Caruana wins the World Chess Championship match against champion Magnus Carlsen this month, he will be the first American to hold the...

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The early-20th century German trans-rights activist who was decades ahead of his time

  • Written by Elizabeth Heineman, Professor of History and Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies, University of Iowa
Magnus Hirschfeld, on the right, sits with his partner, Tao Li, at the fourth conference of the World League for Sexual Reform in 1932.Wellcome Images, CC BY

The Trump administration continues its assault on transgender rights.

In July 2017, Trump sought to bar transgender people from serving in the military. Then, this past October, The New York...

Read more: The early-20th century German trans-rights activist who was decades ahead of his time

Could consciousness all come down to the way things vibrate?

  • Written by Tam Hunt, Affiliate Guest in Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara
What do synchronized vibrations add to the mind/body question?agsandrew/Shutterstock.com

Why is my awareness here, while yours is over there? Why is the universe split in two for each of us, into a subject and an infinity of objects? How is each of us our own center of experience, receiving information about the rest of the world out there? Why are...

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3 things Jeff Sessions did as attorney general that history should remember

  • Written by Steven Mulroy, Law Professor in Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Election Law, University of Memphis
Mike Pence administers the oath of office to Attorney General Jeff Sessions.AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File

President Donald Trump’s sacking of Attorney General Jeff Sessions has raised concerns among those who wish to see the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller continue unimpeded.

Those same people will likely not lament...

Read more: 3 things Jeff Sessions did as attorney general that history should remember

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