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Los 'juegos' políticos con el agua del que son víctimas los mexicanos

  • Written by Veronica Herrera, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Connecticut
Las inundaciones ocurren con bastante frecuencia en Nezahualcoyotl, una ciudad mexicana cerca de la capital.AP Photos/Eduardo Verdugo

Cuando Ciudad del Cabo reconoció en febrero que se quedaría sin agua en unos meses, Sudáfrica se convirtió repentinamente en un ejemplo de modelo global de la mala gestión de este...

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A return to earmarks could grease the wheels in Congress

  • Written by Diana Evans, Professor of political science, Trinity College
Members of Congress debated a government spending bill into the early morning on March 20. AP/J. Scott Applewhite

Congress passed a US$1.3 trillion spending bill last Thursday, March 22 – only narrowly averting a third government shutdown this year. President Trump signed the bill into law on Friday.

Congress’s inability to pass...

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Betsy DeVos said Common Core was 'dead' – it's not

  • Written by Nicholas Tampio, Associate Professor of Political Science, Fordham University
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In a speech in Washington earlier this year, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos called the education standards known as the Common Core a “disaster” and proclaimed: “At the U.S. Department of Education, Common Core is dead.”

The reality, however, is that the Common Core is still very much alive. As indicated in a...

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New federal program tackles spiraling costs of college textbooks

  • Written by MacKenzie Smith, University Librarian and Vice Provost for Digital Scholarship, University of California, Davis
A new $5 million federal program will bring free digital textbooks to students.Daniel M. Ernst/Shutterstock

College students will keep more money in their pockets thanks to a new US$5 million pilot program approved as part of the $1.3 trillion appropriations bill that President Donald J. Trump signed on March 23.

The new grant program, administered...

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Do you believe in miracles? Why they make perfect sense for many

  • Written by Richard Gunderman, Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
Depiction of the miracle of the Resurrection, the central belief in Christianity.Romalo Tavani/Shutterstock.com

This year, one of the most essential holy days in the Christian calendar, Easter, coincides with perhaps the silliest of annual secular celebrations, April Fools’ Day. Easter commemorates a miraculous event, the resurrection of...

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The ideal female body type is getting even harder to attain

  • Written by Frances Bozsik, PhD Candidate in Clinical Health Psychology, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Is muscle definition now being added to an already impossibly thin ideal?Mikhaylovskiy/Shutterstock.com

Day after day, we’re bombarded with so many media messages that rarely do we stop to think about what they’re telling us to think, do or feel.

Much has been written about the unrealistic beauty standards women have been held to. Female...

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Fewer diplomats, more armed force defines US leadership today

  • Written by Monica Duffy Toft, Professor of International Politics and Director, Center for Strategic Studies, Fletcher School, Tufts University
Members of the U.S. Army Special Forces on Aug. 30, 2002 in Afghanistan. AP Photo/Wally Santana

A strong legacy of U.S. leadership and engagement in global politics has been reduced today to what I call kinetic diplomacy – diplomacy by armed force.

As of March 2018, the Trump administration has appointed only 70 of 188 U.S. ambassadors. At...

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Trump's $60 billion in China tariffs will create more problems than they solve

  • Written by William Hauk, Associate Professor of Economics, University of South Carolina
Business such as California winemakers could be hurt by the new tariffs as a result of retaliation.AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein

After spending seven months investigating whether China is engaged in unfair trade practices, the Trump administration announced March 22 that it will impose tariffs on as much as US$60 billion in Chinese imports.

The...

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Gun control and March for Our Lives: 4 essential reads

  • Written by Naomi Schalit, Senior Editor, Politics + Society, The Conversation US

Editor’s note: The following is a roundup of stories from The Conversation’s archive.

Students from across the country will march in Washington, D.C., on Saturday. Similar marches will take place elsewhere in the U.S. Organized by survivors of the Parkland school shooting in Florida, the protesters want Congress to pass gun control...

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March for Our Lives awakens the spirit of student and media activism of the 1960s

  • Written by Errol Salamon, Postdoctoral Researcher and Visting Scholar in Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Students rally in front of the White House in Washington, March 14, 2018.AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster

A student movement against gun violence is receiving sustained news coverage.

Students are using social and news media to build momentum and advocate for legislation in the wake of a Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland,...

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  7. Don't quit Facebook, but don't trust it, either
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  12. How energy storage is starting to rewire the electricity industry
  13. School resource officers can prevent tragedies, but training is key
  14. Public support for animal rights goes beyond keeping dogs out of overhead bins
  15. Red state, blue state: How colors took sides in politics
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  17. I treat patients on Medicaid, and I don't see undeserving poor people
  18. Regulating Facebook won't prevent data breaches
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  23. Threat assessments crucial to prevent school shootings
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  25. Facebook is killing democracy with its personality profiling data
  26. Tariffs won't save American steel jobs. But we can still help steelworkers
  27. Buried, altered, silenced: 4 ways government climate information has changed since Trump took office
  28. Eager to dye your hair with 'nontoxic' graphene nanoparticles? Not so fast!
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  31. Merit matters in US immigration, but agreeing on what 'merit' means is complicated
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  33. Why Denmark dominates the World Happiness Report rankings year after year
  34. MS-13 is a street gang, not a drug cartel – and the difference matters
  35. Trump believes he can make an Israeli-Palestinian deal. Don't hold your breath
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