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Emmett Till's life matters

  • Written by Davis W. Houck, Professor, Florida State University
A 1950s photograph of Emmett Till and his mother Mamie Till Mobley, during a visit to Jackson, Miss.AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis

The U.S. federal government is again investigating the case of Emmett Till’s murder, the Department of Justice has announced, bringing optimism that some measure of justice might ultimately prevail.

Nearly 63 years...

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Central American kids come to the US fleeing record-high youth murder rates at home

  • Written by Julio Ernesto Acuna Garcia, Assistant Professor, Economics Department, Universidad San Fracisco de Quito (Ecuador)

Gang violence and expanding criminal networks have made El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala – an area of Central America known as the “Northern Triangle” – some of the world’s most dangerous countries.

El Salvador’s homicide rate in 2016 – 109 murders per 100,000 people – was more than 25 times that...

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Spain's majority-female cabinet embodies women's global rise to power

  • Written by Susan Franceschet, Professor of Political Science, University of Calgary

Gender-equal governments, which include the same number of men and women as ministry heads and in other cabinet posts, used to be the purview of woman-friendly Nordic countries and highly progressive societies like Canada and Costa Rica.

No longer.

Mexico’s president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who takes office in...

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What is Novichok? A neurotoxicologist explains

  • Written by William Atchison, Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Michigan State University
In this file photo taken on on Oct. 4, 1987, a Soviet army officer presents ammunition rigged with chemical agents during a visit by Western diplomats and journalists to a chemical weapons research facility in Shikhany, Saratov region, Russia. The facility in Shikhany led the efforts to develop Soviet chemical weapons, including Novichok-class...

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Scientist at work: Identifying individual gray wolves by their howls

  • Written by Angela Dassow, Assistant Professor of Biology, Carthage College
Each wolf calls with its own 'voice.'Angela Dassow, CC BY-ND

Love them or hate them, wolves are vital members of natural ecosystems and the health of a wolf population can be an important factor in maintaining balance among species. Wolf populations are growing in North America – the Great Lakes region in particular now supports over 3,700...

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When Trump calls Russia a 'competitor' for the US, he might be talking about natural gas exports

  • Written by Anna Mikulska, Nonresident Fellow in Energy Studies, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University
Vladimir Putin, autographing a natural gas pipeline in VladivostokAP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin

President Donald Trump complained during recent NATO meetings and through Twitter about how, in his opinion, Germany is “captive to Russia” because of that country’s reliance on Russian energy, especially natural gas.

This...

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Trade wars will boost digital manufacturing – at consumers' own homes with personal 3D printers

  • Written by Joshua M. Pearce, Professor, Michigan Technological University
Is this the future of U.S. manufacturing?Deezmaker

The U.S. is in multiple international trade wars. After President Trump ordered higher taxes on some Chinese imports, the Chinese retaliated. The trade dispute now involves as much as US$200 billion worth of Chinese-made goods. Trump has also targeted the European Union, Canada and Mexico with...

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Why trade wars can be perilous: 5 essential reads

  • Written by Bryan Keogh, Economics + Business Editor
Kentucky bourbon is among the products targeted with retaliatory tariffs by the EU.AP Photo/Jeff Chiu

Depending on whom you ask, the odds of the United States winning its trade war with China and the rest of the world is either probable, possible, unlikely, out of the question or irrelevant.

Economists generally agree, however, that American...

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As the World Cup winds down and the summit nears, Trump is playing Putin's game

  • Written by Cynthia Hooper, Associate Professor of History, College of the Holy Cross
Russian-government backed show Comedy Club's Trump and Putin impersonatorsRUTube

It seems incredible that White House aides would schedule the first U.S.-Russia summit of the Donald Trump Presidency for the day after the World Cup final soccer match in Moscow, given the assiduous attention to detail that has, historically, governed every meeting...

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The IceCube observatory detects neutrino and discovers a blazar as its source

  • Written by Doug Cowen, Professor of Physics and Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University
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About four billion years ago, when the planet Earth was still in its infancy, the axis of a black hole about one billion times more massive than the sun happened to be pointing right to where our planet was going to be on September 22, 2017.

Blazar shoots neutrinos and gamma rays to Earth: Blazars are a type of active galactic nucleus with...

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  3. Even self-driving cars need driver education
  4. All wildfires are not alike, but the US is fighting them that way
  5. Why vaccine opponents think they know more than medical experts
  6. Here's how to encourage more girls to pursue science and math careers
  7. Why the case of Jahi McMath is important for understanding the role of race for black patients
  8. Does thinking you look fat affect how much money you earn?
  9. The US is facing a serious shortage of airline pilots
  10. Derecho de asilo: El abuso doméstico y la violencia anti-gay sí se califican como 'persecución'
  11. Nicaragua intenta derrocar a un dictador (de nuevo)
  12. The travel ban in numbers: Why families and refugees lose big
  13. Triclosan, often maligned, may have a good side — treating cystic fibrosis infections
  14. Breastfeeding has been the best public health policy throughout history
  15. The pace of nonprofit media growth is picking up
  16. Trump isn't the first leader to rattle the world order
  17. How cities help immigrants feel at home: 4 charts
  18. Harnessing natural gas to harvest water from the air might solve 2 big problems at once
  19. Meet the foodies who are changing the way Americans eat
  20. Could human cancer treatments be the key to saving sea turtles from a disfiguring tumor disease?
  21. Silicon Valley, from 'heart’s delight' to toxic wasteland
  22. A long fuse: 'The Population Bomb' is still ticking 50 years after its publication
  23. AT T-Time Warner, net neutrality and how to make sense of the media merger frenzy
  24. Russia is top on NATO's agenda and Trump is the wild card
  25. Which 3-letter agency is enforcing US immigration laws at the border?
  26. Green-baiting lawmakers are accusing environmentalists of doubling as ‘foreign agents’
  27. Mourning death by suicide: How you can provide support for the bereaved
  28. Rock 'n' roll is noise pollution – with ecological implications that can spread through a food web
  29. To improve digital well-being, put your phone down and talk to people
  30. Supreme Court polarization is not inevitable — just look at Europe
  31. Inside the sacred danger of Thailand's caves
  32. A rare instance when preventative screening is worth the dollar cost
  33. Por qué el censo de 2020 no debería preguntar sobre tu ciudadanía
  34. Why is the Strait of Hormuz important?
  35. Silicon Valley's cautionary tale shows what can go wrong when charities get obsessed with growth
  36. 7.5 billion and counting: How many humans can the Earth support?
  37. How the Catholic Church came to oppose birth control
  38. Considering race in college admissions – 3 questions answered
  39. Alcohol's health benefits hard to prove, but harms are easy to document
  40. Is the Supreme Court's legitimacy undermined in a polarized age?
  41. What next for the EPA? Here's what Reagan did
  42. We estimate China only makes $8.46 from an iPhone – and that's why Trump's trade war is futile
  43. Poland's judicial purge another step toward authoritarian democracy
  44. Support for refugees increases when refugees participate in integration programs
  45. Sex and gender diversity is growing across the US
  46. The monster festival: A pilgrimage to small town America
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  49. What the Nazis driving people from homes taught philosopher Hannah Arendt about the rights of refugees
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