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Saudi women are going to college, running for office and changing the conservative country

  • Written by Alainna Liloia, Graduate Associate, Ph.D. Student, University of Arizona

Saudi Arabia is a notoriously difficult place to be a woman.

The kingdom enforces a strict interpretation of Islamic law that sees the separation of men and women as a defining aspect of an Islamic society. It also puts men in charge of their female relatives. Under this “guardianship system,” as it’s known, Saudi women must get...

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Why Trump's recognition of the Golan Heights as Israeli territory matters

  • Written by Dina Badie, Associate Professor of Politics and International Studies, Centre College
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, left, and U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, right, in the Israeli-held Golan Heights on March 11, 2019Ronen Zvulun/Pool via AP

Responding to pressure from the Israeli government, President Donald Trump has signaled via Twitter that his administration is...

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Despite consumer worries, the future of aviation will be more automated

  • Written by Stephen Rice, Associate Professor of Human Factors, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Human pilots, surrounded by automation.Sorbis/Shutterstock.com

In the wake of the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines crashes of Boeing 737 Max planes, people are thinking about how much of their air travel is handled by software and automated systems – as opposed to the friendly pilots sitting in the cockpit.

Older commercial airliners, such as...

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How Trump and Barr could stretch claims of executive privilege and grand jury secrecy

  • Written by Charles Tiefer, Professor of law, University of Baltimore
Attorney General William P. Barr, appointed by Donald Trump, has provided Congress with only a summary of Mueller's report.AP Photo/Alex Brandon/Jose Luis Magana

Attorney General William Barr’s letter to Congress, delivered Sunday, purports to brief lawmakers about the Mueller report.

What it really does is set the stage for a battle royale...

Read more: How Trump and Barr could stretch claims of executive privilege and grand jury secrecy

Does Monsanto's Roundup cause cancer? The law says yes, the science says maybe

  • Written by Richard G. "Bugs" Stevens, Professor, School of Medicine, University of Connecticut
Law and science seek proof in similar ways, but at very different speedsChinnapong/Shutterstock

A federal jury in California has unanimously decided that the weedkiller Roundup was a “substantial factor” in causing the lymphoma of 70-year-old Edwin Hardeman, who had used Roundup on his property for many years. This is the second such...

Read more: Does Monsanto's Roundup cause cancer? The law says yes, the science says maybe

Cars are regulated for safety – why not information technology?

  • Written by Moshe Y. Vardi, Professor of Computer Science, Rice University
Modern cars are safer than this – but not because auto companies got more ethical.Richard Thornton/Shutterstock.com

As the computing industry grapples with its role in society, many people, both in the field and outside it, are talking about a crisis of ethics.

There is a massive rush to hire chief ethics officers, retool codes of...

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What President Trump's executive order on campus free speech is really meant to do

  • Written by Brendan Cantwell, Associate Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education, Michigan State University
President Donald Trump holds up an executive order requiring colleges to certify that their policies support free speech as a condition of receiving federal research grants.Jacquelyn Martin/AP

The much anticipated executive order that President Donald Trump issued March 21 to protect free speech on campus is about politics, not policy.

The proof is...

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Boeing 737 Max: The FAA wanted a safe plane – but didn't want to hurt America’s biggest exporter either

  • Written by Susan Webb Yackee, Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Boeing is accused of not being fully forthcoming about changes it made to the 737 Max.AP Photo/Ted S. Warren

Recent incidents aside, air travel is incredibly safe these days.

Global airplane fatalities averaged 840 a year from 2010 to 2018, compared with almost 2,000 in the 1990s. In fact, this decade is on pace to see the fewest casualties since...

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Electronic health records cannot replace a doctor who knows you

  • Written by Richard Gunderman, Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
Electronic medical records can be costly and time-consuming.Africa Studio/Shutterstock.com

The introduction of electronic health records (EHRs) was accompanied by a great deal of fanfare. Such systems, which replace old paper-based charts in doctor’s offices and hospitals, were designed to make patient data more accurate, safer and more...

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Journalism needs to practice transparency in a different way to rebuild credibility

  • Written by Michael Palanski, Associate Professor of Management, Rochester Institute of Technology
Does the news business need a better definition of transparency?Shutterstock

Public trust in media continues to hover near all-time lows, driven by perceptions that the news industry is partisan and peddles inaccurate information (“fake news”), as well as ambivalence about news from social media.

According to a new Knight Foundation repo...

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