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Active shooter drills may reshape how a generation of students views school

  • Written by Devon Magliozzi, Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, Stanford University
A police officer portrays an active shooter with an assault rifle loaded with dummy rounds.AP Photo/Charles Krupa

Recent school shootings and the March for Our Lives rallies held in cities around the world on March 24 have rekindled debates over how to keep students safe.

“The notion of ‘it can’t happen here’ is no longer a...

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Hospitals hit back on drug pricing, but will they knock out the problem?

  • Written by Ernst Berndt, Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management
Heather Bresch, CEO of Mylan, holds two EpiPens as she testified before Congress Sept. 21, 2016 about rising costs of the drug.AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais

Drug manufacturing and pricing vaulted into the news several years ago when a privately held company raised the price of a drug used for infections from US$13.50 to $750 for one pill.

After...

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Pakistan's activist Supreme Court endangers a fragile democracy

  • Written by Adnan Rasool, Ph.D. Candidate/ Student Innovation Fellow, Georgia State University

Pakistanis head to the polls to elect their next prime minister in July. Until then, though, the Supreme Court seems to be in charge of the country.

In July 2017, revelations from the Panama Papers leak spurred Pakistan’s high court to rule that then-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had lied to the public about his family finances. Sharif, who...

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Baby bust: 5 charts show how expensive it is to have kids in the US today

  • Written by Heidi Steinour, Visting Instructor in Sociology, University of South Florida
Out-of-pocket expenses for delivery run in the tens of thousands for many Americans.mathom/shutterstock.com

Today, roughly one in five women in the U.S. doesn’t have children. Thanks in part to this decline in birthrate, for the first time in U.S. history, there may soon be more elderly people than children.

Based on trends in costs,...

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Why it's so hard to #DeleteFacebook: Constant psychological boosts keep you hooked

  • Written by S. Shyam Sundar, Distinguished Professor of Communication & Co-Director of the Media Effects Research Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University
Your finger may hover, but it's hard get rid of it once and for all.ymgerman/Shutterstock.com

Here we go again: another Facebook controversy, yet again violating our sense of privacy by letting others harvest our personal information. This flareup is a big one to be sure, leading some people to consider leaving Facebook altogether, but the company...

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The tragic story of America's only native parrot, now extinct for 100 years

  • Written by Kevin R. Burgio, Postdoctoral Fellow in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut
John James Audubon's 'Carolina Parakeets.'Wikimedia Commons

It was winter in upstate New York in 1780 in a rural town called Schoharie, home to the deeply religious Palatine Germans. Suddenly, a flock of gregarious red and green birds flew into town, seemingly upon a whirlwind.

The townspeople thought the end of the world was upon them. Though the...

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Trump plan to execute 'big drug pushers' will do nothing to stop opioid overdoses

  • Written by Angélica Durán-Martínez, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell

On March 19, President Donald Trump unveiled his administration’s plan to stem the opioid overdose crisis in the United States, which has claimed some 350,000 lives since 2000. Among other measures, it proposes severe punishment for people involved in the illegal drug trade, including longer minimum jail sentences and potentially the death...

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Who is John Bolton and what does he want?

  • Written by Steven Feldstein, Frank and Bethine Church Chair of Public Affairs & Associate Professor, School of Public Service, Boise State University
John Bolton.AP Photo/Alex Brandon

President Donald Trump’s announcement on March 22 that John Bolton would become the new national security adviser took the policy world – and Bolton – by surprise.

Bolton’s hawkish views are well known. During his run as a Fox News commentator, he advocated for preemptively bombing North Korea...

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Trump's go-it-alone approach to China trade ignores WTO's better way to win

  • Written by Charles Hankla, Associate Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University
Trump may have launched first salvo in a trade war.AP Photo/Ng Han Guan

President Donald Trump seems to be changing his tune on trade.

On March 8, he imposed across-the-board tariffs on the importation of steel and aluminum, angering allies and adversaries alike. Exactly two weeks later, the president launched a new salvo in what could turn into an...

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What the staff does matters more than what's in an organization's mission statement

  • Written by David Berlan, Assistant Professor of Public Administration, Askew School of Public Administration and Policy, Florida State University
The late Sen. Ted Kennedy, reading from "A Nation of Immigrants," a book by his brother, President John F. KennedyAP Photo/Dennis Cook

Mission statements, not normally in the news, are getting more attention than usual.

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the StateDepartment and other...

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