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You'll hear these 4 arguments in defense of the Electoral College – here's why they're wrong

  • Written by Robert Speel, Associate Professor of Political Science, Erie campus, Pennsylvania State University

For the first time in the country’s modern history, the existence of the Electoral College has become a campaign issue.

Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren recently called for the abolition of the Electoral College, while other Democratic presidential candidates, including former U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke and Sen. Kamala Harris,...

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DOJ efforts to kill Obamacare, the cat with 9 lives, could cause health care havoc for millions

  • Written by J.B. Silvers, Professor of Health Finance, Weatherhead School of Management & School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., announces legislation at the Capitol on March 26 to lower health care costs and protect people with pre-existing conditions.J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo

If the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, were a cat, it would be just about out of its nine lives.

It is amazing that this law, which represented a sea...

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Supreme Court to rule on use of religious symbols in war memorials

  • Written by Corey D. B. Walker, Visiting Professor, University of Richmond
The 40-foot Peace Cross dedicated to World War I soldiers.AP Photo/Kevin Wolf

The Supreme Court recently heard arguments in a case regarding the constitutional validity of a war memorial in Maryland in the shape of a Christian cross. The memorial is known as the Bladensburg Peace Cross and stands on government property. At issue in the case is a...

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The science and politics of genetically engineered salmon: 5 questions answered

  • Written by Alison Van Eenennaam, Researcher, Department of Animal Science, University of California, Davis
After decades of work, a salmon product engineered to grow faster may be coming to the U.S.Daniel Mennerich, CC BY-NC-ND

A Massachusetts-based company earlier this month cleared the last regulatory hurdle from the Food and Drug Administration to sell genetically engineered salmon in the U.S. Animal genomics expert Alison Van Eenennaam, who served...

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How higher ed can earn the public's trust after the admissions scandal

  • Written by Genevieve Shaker, Associate Professor of Philanthropic Studies, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, IUPUI
Carol Folt, the next president of the University of Southern California. AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, CC BY-ND

The college admissions scandal is exposing illegal and unethical conduct by dozens of people who paid or took bribes to get students into the University of Southern California and other elite universities. Concerns about social justice, mer...

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Statistics ruined baseball by perfecting it

  • Written by Edwin Amenta, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine
The game is becoming less exciting for fans.Daniel Padavona/shutterstock.com

Since sportswriter Henry Chadwick popularized the box score in the 19th century, baseball fans have had a love affair with statistics. Many can recite records like Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak, Rickey Henderson’s 130 stolen bases or Barry Bonds’...

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Beyond 'Bandersnatch,' the future of interactive TV is bright

  • Written by David Schwartz, Associate Professor of Interactive Games and Media, Rochester Institute of Technology
Make a choice to see the next phase of the story.Netflix

Make a choice: Do you want to engage with your media passively or actively?

The December 2018 premiere of Netflix’s “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch” offered consumers a new way to influence the entertainment they’re watching. Netflix has a growing list of...

Read more: Beyond 'Bandersnatch,' the future of interactive TV is bright

How social media is helping Big Tobacco hook a new generation of smokers

  • Written by Robert Kozinets, Hufschmid Chair of Strategic Public Relations, University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Documents show tobacco companies have marketed their products to young people. Canna Obscura/shutterstock.com

Big Tobacco is increasingly using social media to find new ways to hook young people on smoking, circumventing decades of laws restricting the marketing of traditional cigarettes to minors.

In major cities around the world such as Rio de...

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Trump and obstruction of justice: An explainer

  • Written by David Orentlicher, Professor of Law and Co-Director, Health Law Program, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Special counsel Robert Mueller reached no definitive conclusion about whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice in firing FBI Director James Comey or attacking his own investigation.Reuters/Hyungwon Kang, AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Reuters/Jonathan Ernst, Twitter

Special counsel Robert Mueller did not find evidence that Trump or his campaign...

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Russia responds to Mueller report: Moscow wins, Putin is stronger than Trump and US is a 'global pain in the a--'

  • Written by Cynthia Hooper, Associate Professor of History, College of the Holy Cross
Cars pass the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, March 25, 2019.AP/Pavel Golovkin

“A mountain has given birth to a mouse. The ‘Russian affair’ falls to pieces before our eyes.”

So pronounced the Russian news site Gazeta.ru, as word of the completed Mueller report swept around the world.

Thus far, official Russian response to the...

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  11. The promise and peril of the Dominican baseball pipeline
  12. Why the Vatican needs to open its archives on Pope Pius XII
  13. Saudi women are going to college, running for office and changing the conservative country
  14. Why Trump's recognition of the Golan Heights as Israeli territory matters
  15. Despite consumer worries, the future of aviation will be more automated
  16. How Trump and Barr could stretch claims of executive privilege and grand jury secrecy
  17. Does Monsanto's Roundup cause cancer? The law says yes, the science says maybe
  18. Cars are regulated for safety – why not information technology?
  19. What President Trump's executive order on campus free speech is really meant to do
  20. Boeing 737 Max: The FAA wanted a safe plane – but didn't want to hurt America’s biggest exporter either
  21. Electronic health records cannot replace a doctor who knows you
  22. Journalism needs to practice transparency in a different way to rebuild credibility
  23. Skip this chore: Cleaning your air conditioner condenser probably won't make it work better
  24. Why flood insurance needs an overhaul: 6 questions answered
  25. Baseball's biggest problem isn't pace of play – it's teams tanking
  26. A new procedure may preserve fertility in kids with cancer after chemo or radiation
  27. March Madness: With gambling legal in eight states, who really wins?
  28. Will more genetically engineered foods be approved under the FDA's new leadership?
  29. We need more teachers of color, so why do we use tests that keep them out of the classroom?
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  31. Nuns were secluded to avoid scandals in early Christian monastic communities
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  33. Why social movements like #MeToo seem to come out of nowhere
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  36. Death penalty moratorium in California – what it means for the state and for the nation
  37. Even if Netanyahu goes, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will continue
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  40. Violence against women is overlooked in its role in opioid epidemic
  41. A case against a moratorium on germline gene editing
  42. White nationalism, born in the USA, is now a global terror threat
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  44. The politics of fear: How it manipulates us to tribalism
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