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Why the war on poverty in the US isn't over, in 4 charts

  • Written by Robert L. Fischer, Co-Director of the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, Case Western Reserve University
About 12.7 percent of Americans lived below the poverty line in 2016.StanislauV/shutterstock.com

On July 12, President Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers concluded that America’s long-running war on poverty “is largely over and a success.”

I am a researcher who has studied poverty for nearly 20 years in Cleveland, a city...

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Bloody uprising in Nicaragua could trigger the next Central American refugee crisis

  • Written by Jose Miguel Cruz, Director of Research, Florida International University
Militias guard a barricade after police and pro-government militias stormed a rebel-held neighborhood in Masaya, Nicaragua, on July 17, 2018. AP Photo/Cristibal Venegas

Central American migrants have long been at the center of what consecutive U.S. administrations have called the immigration “crisis.”

Each year, thousands of Central...

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How virtual worlds can recreate the geographic history of life

  • Written by Robert K. Colwell, Distinguished Research Professor, University of Connecticut
Forest near Sarayaku, Ecuador.skifatenum, CC BY

The Amazon and the adjacent Andean slopes in South America host an astonishing richness of plants and animals. These species have been sources of food, shelter and medicine since the arrival of humans and a target of scientific curiosity since the days of the earliest European naturalist explorers.

Wh...

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Cómo las ciudades pueden ayudar a los inmigrantes a sentirse en casa: 4 gráficos

  • Written by Ernesto Castañeda, Assistant Professor of Sociology, American University

Al mismo tiempo que crece el sentimiento antimigrante en varios lugares desde Alemania hasta Estados Unidos, varias ciudades hallan maneras para hacer que los inmigrantes se sientan como en casa.

Durante más de una década, he realizado cientos de entrevistas en Nueva York, París y Barcelona para comprender cómo cada...

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What makes Putin's vision of a Russian-US oil alliance a pipedream

  • Written by Anna Mikulska, Nonresident Fellow in Energy Studies, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University
One historic handshake in HelsinkiAP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais

When Russian leader Vladimir Putin addressed the media in Helsinki alongside President Donald Trump, he proposed that their countries “work together” to make oil and gas markets calmer.

Trump didn’t say whether he supported the idea but he repeated his frequent...

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US health care companies begin exploring blockchain technologies

  • Written by Ana Santos Rutschman, Assistant Professor of Law, Saint Louis University
Finding ways to link health care data in a secure and confidential way.PopTika/Shutterstock.com

The sprawling U.S. health care industry has trouble managing patient information: Every doctor, medical office, hospital, pharmacy, therapist and insurance company needs different pieces of data to properly care for patients. These records are scattered...

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MGM is suing the victims of the worst mass shooting in US history. Here's why

  • Written by Timothy D. Lytton, Distinguished University Professor & Professor of Law, Georgia State University
The scene in Las Vegas several days after the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.AP Photo/Gregory Bull

Last October, Stephen Paddock unleashed a barrage of automatic gunfire from a 32nd-floor hotel room overlooking a large crowd of concertgoers attending a country music festival in Las Vegas. With a body count of 59 dead and another 500 wounded,...

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Reeling from the news? Train your brain to feel better with these 4 techniques

  • Written by Laurel Mellin, Associate Clinical Professor of Family & Community Medicine and Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, President Donald Trump and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras before the NATO summit in Brussels July 11, 2018. AP Photo/Ludovic Marin

Americans have been barraged in the past couple of weeks by a series of major news events – some of them unsettling. President Trump’s trip to Europe left many...

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What is heaven?

  • Written by Joanne M. Pierce, Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
Illustration of Dante's Paradiso.Giovanni di Paolo

When a family member or a friend passes away, we often find ourselves reflecting on the question “where are they now?” As mortal beings, it is a question of ultimate significance to each of us.

Different cultural groups, and different individuals within them, respond with numerous,...

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How the PROSPER Act could negatively impact LGBTQ students

  • Written by Timothy R. Bussey, Assistant Director for the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Kenyon College
Congress is currently considering the PROSPER Act, which could have a dramatic impact on LGTBQ students.Peshkova/www.shutterstock.com

The PROSPER Act, a bill to reauthorize and overhaul key elements of higher education law, could be brought for a vote in the House of Representatives any day now. Even so, the actual level of support for the PROSPER...

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  7. Health clubs using tanning beds to attract members despite cancer risks, new study shows
  8. What criminal conspiracy charges against an alleged Russian spy might mean for the NRA: 3 questions answered
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  10. The brainwashing myth
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  12. Why attorneys represent immigrants for free
  13. Why Trump hasn't been impeached – and likely won't be
  14. Americans distrusted US democracy long before Trump's Russia problem
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  19. Harvesting rain could help Caribbean countries keep the water on after hurricanes
  20. Multilingual learners doing better in US schools than previously thought
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  23. How man and machine can work together to diagnose diseases in medical scans
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  40. Revisiting Jimmy Carter's truth-telling sermon to Americans
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