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UN report documents genocide against Rohingya: What now?

  • Written by Max Pensky, Co-Director, Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Binghamton University, State University of New York

The United Nations has released a searing report that details Myanmar’s state violence against an ethnic and religious minority in that country known as the Rohingya.

The report demands that top leadership in Myanmar’s powerful military be held accountable for genocide and other international crimes.

As co-directors of the Institute for...

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How views on priestly celibacy changed in Christian history

  • Written by Kim Haines-Eitzen, Professor of Early Christianity, Cornell University
New priests being ordained during a ceremony led by Pope Francis in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, when they take vows, including to remain celibate.AP Photo/Andrew Medichini

The recent report of widespread sexual abuse by priests in Pennsylvania has fueled increasing turmoil within the leadership of the Catholic Church. In July this year, Ca...

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Black student activists face penalty in college admissions

  • Written by Ted Thornhill, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Florida Gulf Coast University
Black students who express an interest in racial justice are less likely to get a response from predominantly white, private liberal arts colleges, new research shows.AshTproductions/www.shutterstock.com

Back when I taught at a predominantly white, selective liberal arts college, I came across a book called “Acting White? Rethinking Race in...

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Propaganda-spewing Russian trolls act differently online from regular people

  • Written by Savvas Zannettou, Ph.D. Student in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Informatics, Technological University of Cyprus
They may look similar, but online trolls act differently.Daren Woodward/Shutterstock.com

As information warfare becomes more common, agents of various governments are manipulating social media – and therefore people’s thinking, political actions and democracy. Regular people need to know a lot more about what information warriors are...

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Happy midterms! Here's a rundown of the best political zingers in history

  • Written by Chris Lamb, Professor of Journalism, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
President Ronald Reagan during a 1984 debate.AP Photo

Labor Day marks the beginning of the decisive, final stretch of the U.S. political campaign season, when candidates prepare to debate one another by practicing their ad-libs or “zingers,” as they’re called, hoping to have the last word with voters.

I dedicated my book, “I&r...

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It's too soon to call 3D printing a green technology

  • Written by Reid Lifset, Research Scholar, Resident Fellow in Industrial Ecology, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University
Prototype vehicle built with 3D printing – but is it green?Tim Gutowski, CC BY-ND

Over the past decade 3D printing has captured the imagination of the general public, engineers and environmental visionaries. It has been hailed as both a revolution in manufacturing and an opportunity for dramatic environmental improvement.

3D printing has two...

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Why Trump's wrong about WTO treating US unfairly

  • Written by Jeffrey Kucik, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Arizona
Trump believes the Geneva-based WTO treats the U.S. with disrespect. Martin Good/Shutterstock.com

President Donald Trump recently threatened to pull the United States out of the World Trade Organization “if they don’t shape up.”

His argument is that the organization treats its single-largest investor unfairly, claiming that the...

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Oil and gas execs out-earn their peers. Are they overpaid?

  • Written by Lucas Davis, Professor at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
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Following a long slump, crude prices have rebounded to about US$70 per barrel. That may make 2018 the most profitable year for oil and gas companies in at least four years.

Will oil and gas executives reap big rewards as well?

As energyeconomists, we’ve wondered how much the top oil and gas executives...

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'Pay-for-luck': Oil and gas execs out-earn their peers

  • Written by Lucas Davis, Professor at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
Letting it rainShutterstock.com/pathdoc

Following a long slump, crude prices have rebounded to about US$70 per barrel. That may make 2018 the most profitable year for oil and gas companies in at least four years.

Will oil and gas executives reap big rewards as well?

As energyeconomists, we’ve wondered how much the top oil and gas executives...

Read more: 'Pay-for-luck': Oil and gas execs out-earn their peers

Why plant-based mosquito repellents are so hard to design

  • Written by Joel Coats, Distinguished Professor of Entomology, Iowa State University
A yellow citronella bucket candle is essential for summertime evenings to keep the mosquitos away.ARENA Creative/Shutterstock.com

As humanity experiences relentless pressures from disease-carrying mosquitoes in many parts of the world, there is an urgent need for new tools to use against those beasts – because they keep getting scarier.

Even...

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