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Beto O'Rourke won't beat Ted Cruz in Texas – here's why

  • Written by James Henson, Director of the Texas Politics Project and Lecturer, Dept. of Government, University of Texas at Austin

With Election Day now only a few weeks away, the race between incumbent Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke has attracted national and international attention.

For Cruz, a star in national conservative politics, losing to O'Rourke would be a particularly bitter pill. Cruz rose to prominence during the heyday of the Tea Party,...

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Could an artificial intelligence be considered a person under the law?

  • Written by Roman V. Yampolskiy, Associate Professor of Computer Engineering and Computer Science, University of Louisville
Sophia, a robot granted citizenship in Saudi Arabia.MSC/wikimedia, CC BY

Humans aren’t the only people in society – at least according to the law. In the U.S., corporations have been given rights of free speech and religion. Some natural features also have person-like rights. But both of those required changes to the legal system. A new...

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For mothers who lose their babies, donating breast milk is a healing ritual

  • Written by Ayelet Oreg, Ph.D. Candidate, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Donated breast milkAP Photo/Matt Rourke

Stillbirth and neonatal loss are painful in many ways.

But increasingly, some of the more than 24,000 American women whose pregnancies end with the loss of their babies are choosing to do something they find both demanding and healing – giving their breast milk away.

As a social worker, a scholar of...

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'Bystander effect' and sexual assault: What the research says

  • Written by Heather Hensman Kettrey, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Clemson University

Sexual assault, pushed into public conversation by the #MeToo movement, once again dominates the U.S. news cycle. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh faces allegations that he sexually assaulted professor Christine Blasey Ford, a former high school classmate.

The allegations have led to a number of important questions regarding victim testimony,...

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Massacres, disappearances and 1968: Mexicans remember the victims of a 'perfect dictatorship'

  • Written by Luis Gómez Romero, Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Wollongong
Mexican soldiers killed up to 300 student protesters and arrested 1,000 more on Oct. 3, 1968, in an event that's come to be known as the Tlatelolco massacre.AP Photo

Ten days before the opening ceremony of the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, uniformed soldiers and rooftop snipers opened fire on student protesters in a plaza in the capital...

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'Coming of Age in Mississippi' still speaks to nation's racial discord, 50 years later

  • Written by Leigh Ann Wheeler, Professor of History, Binghamton University, State University of New York

Most memoirs are soon forgotten.

A rare exception is Anne Moody’s “Coming of Age in Mississippi,” which was published in 1968. It spoke to the day’s pressing issues – poverty, race and civil rights – with an urgent timeliness.

Fifty years later, the book still commands a wide readership. Read each year by...

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5 habilidades matemáticas que los niños en edad preescolar deben aprender: enséñeselas de forma divertida

  • Written by Susan Sonnenschein, Professor, Applied Development Psychology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Cómo lograr que su hijo esté listo para la escuela.Studio.g photography/shutterstock

Los padres desempeñan un papel fundamental en la enseñanza temprana de matemáticas de sus hijos: no solo pueden proporcionar juguetes y entretenimientos relacionados con las matemáticas, sino que pueden convertirse en el...

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Why trade deficits aren't so bad

  • Written by William D. Lastrapes, Professor of Economics, University of Georgia
The trade deficit, and how much a country exports or imports, is only part of the story. AP Photo/Reed Saxon

Most Americans seem to think international trade deficits are a bad thing.

A March poll, for example, showed that more than two-thirds think the U.S. should take steps to reduce the trade deficit with China, even if a resulting trade war...

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Does a man's social class have anything to do with the likelihood he'll commit sexual assault?

  • Written by Jamie L. Small, Assistant Professor, University of Dayton
Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, arrives in the East Room of the White House, July 9, 2018. AP/Alex Brandon

Defending his reputation against Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations of sexual assault, Judge Brett Kavanaugh worked hard, and angrily, to present himself as a respectable man in his statement...

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Controversial young adult novel offers insight into Kavanaugh hearings, sexual assault

  • Written by Kelly Roberts, Associate Professor of English; Program Coordinator, 6-9 and 9-12 licensure programs in English, Meredith College
Young adult fiction books on display at an independent bookstore.Andrew Cline/www.shutterstock.com

The confirmation hearing of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh should remind educators of the vital need to talk to young people about sexual assault, consent, underage drinking – and how the choices they make as teenagers can affect the rest...

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  19. 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: a turning point in the war on cancer
  20. Kavanaugh sexual assault hearing evokes early Soviet mock trials
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  22. Why we're training the next generation of lawyers in big data
  23. Safe, efficient self-driving cars could block walkable, livable communities
  24. The Catholic Church resists change – but Vatican II shows it's possible
  25. Brett Kavanaugh goes to the movies
  26. Kids with cellphones more likely to be bullies – or get bullied. Here are 6 tips for parents
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  36. Kavanaugh confirmation a reminder: Accused sexual harassers get promoted anyway
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  39. 50 years of the Boeing 747: How the 'queen of the skies' reigned over air travel
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