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When Americans go to the polls, they look to the past – not the future

  • Written by J. Edwin Benton, Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, University of South Florida
Where will Americans want to go in 2020?C Z/shutterstock.com

There’s one question that almost every American voter asks him- or herself when casting their vote for president.

Has the incumbent’s – or the incumbent party’s – past performance in office been sufficient to merit another term?

Unlike voters in many other...

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China-US trade war heats up: 3 reasons it won't cool down anytime soon

  • Written by Greg Wright, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Merced

The truce in the U.S.-China trade war is in tatters.

China said on May 13 that it will impose new tariffs on a range of American goods in retaliation for President Donald Trump’s decision to raise duties on US$200 billion in Chinese imports.

Although trade talks may continue, for now the trade war that Trump began in January 2018 is back on,...

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Charging asylum application fees is the latest way the US could make immigrants pay for its red tape

  • Written by Sarah R. Sherman-Stokes, Lecturer and Clinical Instructor of Law; Associate Director of the Immigrants’ Rights and Human Trafficking Clinic, Boston University
Asylum seekers, lining up in Tijuana in 2018AP Photo/Gregory Bull

The Trump administration wants to make people fleeing persecution in their home countries pay for something they’ve long gotten for free: the right to apply for asylum in the United States.

As an immigration attorney and a law professor who has represented people seeking asylum...

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Worried about sexual harassment – or false allegations? Our team asked Americans about their experiences and beliefs

  • Written by Anita Raj, Professor of Society and Health, Medicine, and Education Studies, and Founding Director of the Center on Gender Equity and Health, University of California San Diego
In a survey, 81% of women and 43% of men said that they had experienced sexual harassment or assault at least once.Mihai Surdu/shutterstock.com

Since the launch of #MeToo, there’s been a lot of attention on problems of sexual harassment and assault in the U.S.

Unfortunately, this has not amounted to much progress in terms of reductions in...

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Demise of Walmart 'greeters' reveals shortcomings in the Americans with Disabilities Act

  • Written by Stacy Hickox, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
Putting up signs is easy. Providing workplace accommodations is harder. Supannee_Hickman/Shutterstock.com

Walmart’s decision to eliminate the “greeter” position in all its stores is a case study of why the Americans with Disabilities Act is falling short of its original vision.

Back in 2015, the retailer began experimenting with a...

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Are yoga and mindfulness in schools religious?

  • Written by Candy Gunther Brown, Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University
Yoga classes are becoming more prevalent in America's schools.Africa Studio / www.shutterstock.com

The number of U.S. children age 4 to 17 practicing yoga rose from 2.3% to 8.4% – or from 1.3 million to 4.9 million – between 2007 and 2017, federal data show. The number of children meditating rose to 3.1 million during the same period.

The...

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The unique harm of sexual abuse in the black community

  • Written by Jennifer M. Gómez, Postdoctoral Fellow in Trauma Psychology, Wayne State University
Anita Hill in Beverly Hills, California, Dec. 8, 2017.Willy Sanjuna/Invision/AP

What makes R. Kelly’s alleged sexual abuse of black girls different than that of other big-name alleged perpetrators, like Woody Allen?

What are the different pressures faced by Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford regarding their testimonies of alleged sexual and...

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How cryptocurrency scams work

  • Written by Nir Kshetri, Professor of Management, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
Don't end up like this person.fizkes/Shutterstock.com

Millions of cryptocurrency investors have been scammed out of massive sums of real money. In 2018, losses from cryptocurrency-related crimes amounted to US$1.7 billion. The criminals use both old-fashioned and new-technology tactics to swindle their marks in schemes based on digital currencies...

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Truth, justice and declassification: Secret archives show US helped Argentine military wage 'dirty war' that killed 30,000

  • Written by Rut Diamint, Political Science Profesor, Torcuato di Tella University

History books may never tell the full story of the dictatorship that terrorized Argentina from 1976 to 1984.

But newly declassified United States military and intelligence documents recently delivered to Argentina offer new details about the country’s brutal military junta.

The archival documents were the fourth and final batch of 43,000...

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What happens when a raindrop hits a puddle?

  • Written by Nate Barlow, Assistant Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology
The math of raindrops.Stefan Holm/shutterstock.com

Have you ever taken a walk through the rain on a warm spring day and seen that perfect puddle? You know, the one where the raindrops seem to touch down at just the right pace, causing a dance of vanishing circles?

Even before I entered the field of fluid flow research nearly 15 years ago, I was...

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