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Why China's soybean tariffs matter

  • Written by Ian Sheldon, Chair in Agricultural Marketing, Trade and Policy, The Ohio State University
A farmer harvest his soybean field in Loami, Ill. AP Photo/Seth Perlman

China’s plan to levy a 25 percent tariff on imports of U.S. soybeans may come as something of a surprise to most Americans. But to a professor of agricultural economics who studies international commodity markets for a living, this was not at all unexpected.

Even before...

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Sinclair-style employment contracts that require payment for quitting are very uncommon. Here's why

  • Written by Elizabeth C. Tippett, Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Oregon
Sinclair's employment contracts are kind of like a toll road. You have to pay to leave.oriontrail/Shutterstock.com

Sinclair Broadcast Group, a company that owns local news stations across the country, is itself in the news for requiring its newscasters to read a script about “one-sided news stories plaguing our country.”

While that kind...

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Why the Christian right opposes pornography but still supports Trump

  • Written by Kelsy Burke, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Stormy Daniels, an adult star, at a local restaurant in downtown New Orleans.AP Photo/Bill Haber

Many commentators have pointed out the hypocrisy of Christian leaders who claim a moral high ground while supporting President Donald Trump. The latest scandal involving an alleged extramarital affair with pornographic film star Stormy Daniels proves...

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Look up – it's a satellite!

  • Written by Christopher Palma, Associate Teaching Professor and Associate Department Head for Undergraduate Programs in Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University
The ISS sees us on Earth, but look up at night and you may see it, too.NASA , CC BY

I saw my first artificial satellite with my naked eyes during the summer of 1994. I was watching pieces of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact Jupiter from a small observatory with a college astronomy club when someone pointed up – away from the telescope –...

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Why are fewer and fewer Americans fixing their noses?

  • Written by Laurie Essig, Director and Professor of Gender, Sexuality, & Feminist Studies, Middlebury College
The nose isn't going under the knife like it once did.Lightspring/Shutterstock.com

Americans love cosmetic surgery.

Last year in the U.S., there were 1.8 million plastic surgeries and nearly 16 million nonsurgical procedures, like Botox – about one for every 20 Americans.

The US$8 billion industry now has entire beauty magazines devoted to...

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Behind the scenes of Venezuela's deadly prison fire

  • Written by Rebecca Hanson, Assistant Professor Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law and Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida
Families clashed with security forces outside the police station in Valencia, Venezuela, where nearly 70 prisoners died in a March 28 fire.AP Photo/Juan Carlos Hernandez

A fire killed scores of inmates after a riot in a Venezuelan jail in the early morning hours of March 28. Sixty-six detainees died in the flames, as did two female visitors.

The...

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Gaza's nonviolent protesters exploited by Hamas, but feared by Israel

  • Written by Dov Waxman, Professor of Political Science, International Affairs and Israel Studies, Northeastern University
Protesters pray in front of their tents during a demonstration along the Gaza Strip border with Israel, March 30, 2018AP/Adel Hana

Last Friday was an important day for Christians and Jews around the world. For Christians, it was Good Friday, the day that commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus; and for Jews, it was the beginning of the Passover...

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Sure, cancer mutates, but it has other ways to resist treatment

  • Written by Fabian V. Filipp, Assistant Professor of Systems Biology and Cancer Metabolism, University of California, Merced
Professor Fabian V. Filipp with his team working on precision targeting of malignant melanoma.Systems Biology and Cancer Metabolism Laboratory, CC BY-SA

Because of advances in drug design and precision medicine, researchers have been able to target certain molecules within a cell at the root of a particular disease and to develop specific therapies...

Read more: Sure, cancer mutates, but it has other ways to resist treatment

Driverless cars are already here but the roads aren't ready for them

  • Written by Mark Wilson, Professor and Program Director, Urban & Regional Planning, School of Planning, Design and Construction, Michigan State University
Jason Eichenholz, co-founder and chief technology officer of driverless vehicle industry startup Luminar TechnologiesAP Photo/Ben Margot

The recent deaths of a woman struck by a car Uber was testing in driverless mode and of a man whose Tesla Model X crashed when his hands were off the steering wheel because he was letting the car do some of the...

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  2. I’m suing Scott Pruitt’s broken EPA - here’s how to fix it
  3. Why are Sinclair's scripted news segments such a big deal?
  4. What meeting your spouse online has in common with arranged marriage
  5. Resisting technology, Appalachian style
  6. Half of Earth's satellites restrict use of climate data
  7. Why a census question about citizenship should worry you, whether you're a citizen or not
  8. Genes and environment have equal influence in learning for rich and poor kids, study finds
  9. 5 things to know about the teacher strike in Oklahoma
  10. Why bodycam footage might not clear things up
  11. A chicken in every backyard: Urban poultry needs more regulation to protect human and animal health
  12. It's not my fault, my brain implant made me do it
  13. Costa Rica looks a little less exceptional after its heated election
  14. Statesman, strongman, philosopher, autocrat: China's Xi is a man who contains multitudes
  15. Trump's military policy overlooks data on why transgender troops are fit to serve
  16. Why prime numbers still fascinate mathematicians, 2,300 years later
  17. Fabiano Caruana is poised to do what no American has done since Bobby Fischer. Here's the path he took to get there
  18. Colleges must confront sexual assault and sexual harassment head on
  19. FDR's forest army: How the New Deal helped seed the modern environmental movement 85 years ago
  20. MLK's vision matters today for the 43 million Americans living in poverty
  21. 'Oklahoma!' at 75: Has the musical withstood the test of time?
  22. Martin Luther King Jr. had a much more radical message than a dream of racial brotherhood
  23. How Cambridge Analytica’s Facebook targeting model really worked – according to the person who built it
  24. These are the VA's 3 main problems -- leadership isn't one of them
  25. Cuba's new president: What to expect
  26. Military mission in Puerto Rico after hurricane was better than critics say but suffered flaws
  27. Langston Hughes' hidden influence on MLK
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  30. The invisible power of 'flutter' – from plane crashes to snoring to free energy
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  32. A VA hospital you may not know: the Final Salute, and how much we doctors care
  33. Is the growing Russia crisis another Cold War conflict? Nyet
  34. Why you stink at fact-checking
  35. Discovery of a surprise multitasking gene helps explain how new functions and features evolve
  36. Bobbleheads and other free swag star in baseball tax dispute
  37. Why are more people doing gig work? They like it
  38. 4 charts show why Trump's tariffs will hurt everyone – not just China
  39. Why EPA's U-turn on auto efficiency rules gives China the upper hand
  40. Federal spending bill deals blow to school safety research
  41. Improving the lives of those with dementia – by using memories of baseball
  42. Space weather threatens high-tech life
  43. Democracy is in danger when the census undercounts vulnerable populations
  44. How to stay honest this tax season
  45. Busting Russia's fake news the European Union way
  46. Baseball teams need to protect fans from foul balls -- and US courts need to lift MLB's special liability exemption
  47. Abusive relationships: Why it's so hard for women to 'just leave'
  48. Active shooter drills may reshape how a generation of students views school
  49. Hospitals hit back on drug pricing, but will they knock out the problem?
  50. Pakistan's activist Supreme Court endangers a fragile democracy