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Conservatives value personal stories more than liberals do when evaluating scientific evidence

  • Written by Randy Stein, Assistant Professor of Marketing, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
imageWhen science and anecdote share a podium, you must decide how to value each.Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

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Conservatives tend to see expert evidence and personal experience as more equally legitimate than liberals, who put a lot more weight on the scientific...

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Farmers are depleting the Ogallala Aquifer because the government pays them to do it

  • Written by Matthew R Sanderson, Professor of Sociology and Professor of Geography and Geospatial Sciences, Kansas State University
imageA center-pivot sprinkler with precision application drop nozzles irrigates cotton in Texas.USDA NRCS/Wikipedia

A slow-moving crisis threatens the U.S. Central Plains, which grow a quarter of the nation’s crops. Underground, the region’s lifeblood – water – is disappearing, placing one of the world’s major...

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So-called 'Latino vote' is 32 million Americans with diverse political opinions and national origins

  • Written by Lisa García Bedolla, Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Dean of the Graduate Division, Professor of Education, University of California, Berkeley
imageBiden, here at an Oct. 9 event in Nevada, won Latinos – but not necessarily because his campaign did a great job reaching out to them.Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Pundits are expressing surprise that so many Latinos voted for Donald Trump.

But pollsters who specialize in the Latino vote knew for months before the...

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The complicated origin of the expression 'peanut gallery'

  • Written by Roger J. Kreuz, Associate Dean and Professor of Psychology, University of Memphis
imageChildren in the live audience of 'Howdy Doody' were seated in what was known as the peanut gallery.NBC Television via wikimedia.org

“No comments from the peanut gallery!” For many Americans who were born in the 1940s or 1950s, this phrase conjures up fond memories of the “Howdy Doody” show. It launched in 1947 as one of the...

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Why Republicans and others concerned about the economy have reason to celebrate Biden in the White House

  • Written by William Chittenden, Associate Dean for Graduate Programs and Presidential Fellow, Texas State University
imagePresident-elect Joe Biden speaks to supporters on Nov. 7 in Wilmington, Del.AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster

On day one, a newly inaugurated President Joe Biden will have to address a devastated economy – much like he and former President Barack Obama did a decade ago.

What can the country expect?

Forecasting how the economy will perform under a new...

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Georgia's political shift – a tale of urban and suburban change

  • Written by Jan Nijman, Distinguished University Professor, Urban Studies Institute and Geosciences Department, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University
imageIncumbent Republican US Sen. David Perdue wanted to avoid a runoff.Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Over the past 36 years, the state of Georgia has voted for Republican presidential candidates in every cycle except 1992, when voters backed Bill Clinton. In the past 20 years, it voted consistently for Republican governors and for Republicans in the...

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Biden wins – experts on what it means for race relations, US foreign policy and the Supreme Court

  • Written by Brian J Purnell, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History, Bowdoin College
imagePresident-elect Biden promises a new White House agenda and style.AP Photo/Andrew Harnik

The American public has had its say and for the first time in a generation denied a sitting president a second term.

President Donald Trump’s tenure lasted just four years, but in that time he dragged policy on an array of key issues in a dramatic new...

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How votes are counted in Pennsylvania: Changing numbers are a sign of transparency, not fraud, during an ongoing process

  • Written by Kristin Kanthak, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh
imageElection officials counting ballots at the Allegheny County elections warehouse Friday in Pittsburgh. Jeff Swensen/Getty Images

Last week I was grading an online exam for my students. We’re working with a new learning management system at my university and I didn’t realize my students could actually see their grades moving up and down...

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Has Donald Trump had his Joe McCarthy moment?

  • Written by Chris Lamb, Professor of Journalism, IUPUI
imageThe moment Lester Holt of NBC News cut into a statement from President Donald Trump.NBC News via YouTube

When CBS, NBC and ABC cut away from President Donald Trump’s news conference at the White House on the evening of Nov. 5, they took pains to explain why they were shutting off the nation’s commander-in-chief.

It was a moment that for...

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