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'Designated contrarians' could improve nonprofit boards by disrupting the kind of consensus and groupthink that contributed to the NRA's woes

  • Written by Dana Brakman Reiser, Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
imageSometimes it just takes one naysayer to illuminate a problem everyone else is ignoring.CreativeDesignArt/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images

More than three years after New York authorities sued the National Rifle Association and four of its current and former leaders, the trial will begin on Jan. 8, 2024.

In her complaint, New York Attorney...

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With higher fees and more ads, streaming services like Netflix, Disney+ and Hulu are cashing in by using the old tactics of cable TV

  • Written by Kathryn Cramer Brownell, Associate Professor of History, Purdue University
imageU.S. Sen. John Kerry grills representatives from the cable industry during a 1990 hearing on consumer protections.C-SPAN

There’s one thing that television viewers can count on in 2024: higher fees and more commercials.

The major streaming services – Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, Disney+ and Max – have all announced rate hikes and new...

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Trump's Iowa political organizing this year is nothing like his scattershot 2016 campaign

  • Written by Barbara A. Trish, Professor of Political Science, Grinnell College
imageDonald Trump has mounted a major effort to teach people how to caucus for him.AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File

Donald Trump is doing something new in Iowa.

The state is home to the first-in-the-nation GOP nomination event, the Iowa caucus, which takes place on Jan. 15, 2024, at 7 pm. Trump, the former president, holds a resounding lead over his...

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2 colonists had similar identities – but one felt compelled to remain loyal, the other to rebel

  • Written by Abby Chandler, Associate Professor of History, UMass Lowell
imageMartin Howard, left, and Stephen Hopkins came to opposing conclusions about their colonial British identities.Howard: John Singleton Copley via Wikimedia Commons; Hopkins: New York Public Library, CC BY-SA

Through the early 1750s, two men in the British colony of Rhode Island – Martin Howard and Stephen Hopkins – had similar backgrounds...

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How the Iowa caucuses became the first major challenge of US presidential campaigns

  • Written by Steffen W. Schmidt, Professor of Political Science, Iowa State University
imageGuests attend a rally for former U.S. President Donald Trump on Dec. 19, 2023, in Waterloo, Iowa.Scott Olson/Getty Images

The first and most visible test of Republican candidate support in the 2024 presidential election is the Iowa caucuses, which take place on Jan. 15, 2024.

This year, even though Democrat Joe Biden is not facing a serious...

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The chickadee in the snowbank: A 'canary in the coal mine' for climate change in the Sierra Nevada mountains

  • Written by Benjamin Sonnenberg, Ph.D. Candidate in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology, University of Nevada, Reno
imageMountain chickadees struggle with snow extremes.Benjamin Sonnenberg

Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb above 8,000 feet in the Sierra Nevada of eastern California, tugging a sled loaded with batteries, bolts, wire and 40 pounds of sunflower seeds critical to our mountain chickadee research.

As we reach the remote research...

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Pundits: Central to democracy, or partisan spewers of opinion who destroy trust

  • Written by Mike McDevitt, Professor of journalism and media studies, University of Colorado Boulder
imageTwo pundits – Jonah Goldberg, left, and Paul Begala, second from right – discus politics with journalists Kristen Holmes and Jake Tapper.The Conversation, CC BY-SA

Walter Lippmann, who lived from 1889 to 1974, was an early and prime example of the public intellectual as pundit commenting on news of the day.

Lippmann, a Pulitzer Prize...

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School board members could soon be blocked from blocking people − and deleting their comments − on social media

  • Written by Charles J. Russo, Joseph Panzer Chair in Education and Research Professor of Law, University of Dayton
imageA California couple sued two school board members who blocked them on Facebook after they made critical remarks.OsakaWayne Studios via Getty Images

If a school board member has a social media account, would it be wrong for them to block someone and delete their comments? That’s a question the Supreme Court has decided to take up after public...

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Seeing the human in every patient − from biblical texts to 21st century relational medicine

  • Written by Jonathan Weinkle, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine and Part-Time Instructor of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh
imageMaking patients feel seen and heard -- not just "treated."Tom Werner/Digital Vision via Getty Images

Patients frequently describe the U.S. health care system as impersonal, corporate and fragmented. One study even called the care delivered to many vulnerable patients “inhumane.” Seismic changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic –...

Read more: Seeing the human in every patient − from biblical texts to 21st century relational medicine

Drugs of the future will be easier and faster to make, thanks to mRNA – after researchers work out a few remaining kinks

  • Written by Li Li, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences, UMass Chan Medical School
imageTwo hurdles mRNA drugs face are a short half-life and impurities that trigger immune responses.BlackJack3D/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Vaccines have been reliably and affordably protecting people from diseases worldwide for centuries. Until the COVID-19 pandemic, however, vaccine development was still a long and idiosyncratic process....

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