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Founders: Removal from office is not the only purpose of impeachment

  • Written by Clark D. Cunningham, W. Lee Burge Chair in Law & Ethics; Director, National Institute for Teaching Ethics & Professionalism, Georgia State University
Benjamin Franklin was a leading voice in the debates framing the Constitution.Howard Chandler Christy/Architect of the Capitol

As Congress moves toward a possible formal impeachment of President Donald Trump, they should consider words spoken at the Constitutional Convention, when the Founders explained that impeachment was intended to have many...

Read more: Founders: Removal from office is not the only purpose of impeachment

Would ousting Trump rebuild the country's faith in government? Lessons from Latin America

  • Written by Rachel E. Bowen, Associate Professor of Political Science, The Ohio State University
Reporters ask Nancy Pelosi about the formal impeachment inquiry against Trump.AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

The House of Representatives has opened an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. But what happens if a president is impeached?

The vice president would take his place, but other parts of the government continue unchanged. Partisan...

Read more: Would ousting Trump rebuild the country's faith in government? Lessons from Latin America

Recycling rates could rise significantly with this simple tweak

  • Written by Karen Winterich, Professor of Marketing, Frank and Mary Smeal Research Fellow, Pennsylvania State University
Americans are not good recyclers. siam.pukkato/Shutterstock.com

Have you ever thought about what happens to the empty Coke cans and food takeout containers you toss in your recycling bins?

Our research suggests that if you’re like most Americans, you’ve probably never considered this question. This was surprising to us given that, by...

Read more: Recycling rates could rise significantly with this simple tweak

The history of the cross and its many meanings over the centuries

  • Written by Joanne M. Pierce, Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
A procession of Christian girls, venerating the Cross, in the village of Qanat Bekish, Lebanon.AP Photo/Hussein Malla

In the fall, Catholics and some other Christian churches celebrate the Feast of the Holy Cross. With the feast, Christians commemorate Jesus Christ’s life, especially his salvific death on the cross and his later...

Read more: The history of the cross and its many meanings over the centuries

Curious Kids: Why do old people hate new music?

  • Written by Frank T. McAndrew, Cornelia H. Dudley Professor of Psychology, Knox College
For many older people, today's music goes in one ear and out the other.Shutterstock.com/photograph.kiev

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com.

Why do old people hate new music? – Holly L., age 14, Belmont, Mass.

When I was a...

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Why are private prisons controversial? 3 questions answered

  • Written by John M. Eason, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The US is one of a few countries that still uses private prisons.AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki

Editor’s note: Private prisons have long stirred controversy, most recently over their role in housing undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border. Several states have banned them, several banks have vowed to stop financing them and...

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California polluters may soon buy carbon “offsets” from the Amazon — is that ethical?

  • Written by Maron Greenleaf, Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer, Dartmouth College
The El Segundo Chevron oil refinery, left, and the Bom Futuro National Forest, right.Pedro Szekely/WikimediaCommons, Reuters/Nacho Doce

Fires in the Brazilian Amazon have outraged the world. But what can people living far from the world’s largest rainforest do to save it?

California thinks it has an answer.

On Sept. 19, the California Air...

Read more: California polluters may soon buy carbon “offsets” from the Amazon — is that ethical?

Trump, Ukraine and a whistleblower: Ever since 1796, Congress has struggled to keep presidents in check

  • Written by Jennifer Selin, Kinder Institute Assistant Professor of Constitutional Democracy, University of Missouri-Columbia

George Washington, hero of the American Revolution and the country’s first president, in 1796 withheld documents the House of Representatives had requested from him regarding treaty negotiations with France.

Washington thought that giving the House papers respecting a negotiation with a foreign power would be to establish a dangerous...

Read more: Trump, Ukraine and a whistleblower: Ever since 1796, Congress has struggled to keep presidents in...

Another grim climate report on oceans – what will it take to address the compounding problems?

  • Written by Cassandra Brooks, Assistant Professor Environmental Studies, University of Colorado Boulder

The U.N.‘s climate panel report released Sept. 25 makes crystal clear that the planet’s oceans, snow and ice are in dire trouble and the damage is causing harm to the people who depend on them. Even with aggressive efforts to lower greenhouse gas emissions, many nations will struggle to adapt.

All people on Earth depend on the ocean...

Read more: Another grim climate report on oceans – what will it take to address the compounding problems?

Could climate change fuel the rise of right-wing nationalism?

  • Written by Joshua Conrad Jackson, Doctoral Student, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
When people feel threatened, they're more receptive to politicians who espouse xenophobic rhetoric.Trybex/Shutterstock.com

Two trends have defined the past decade and both have been on display at this year’s session of the United Nations General Assembly.

One has been the escalating effects of climate change, which were the focus of the...

Read more: Could climate change fuel the rise of right-wing nationalism?

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  2. What Amazon, Walmart employees risk when they use the workplace for activism
  3. Sneaky lions in Zambia are moving across areas thought uninhabitable for them
  4. US citizenship applications are backlogged, prolonging the wait for civil and voting rights
  5. Trump scorns United Nations as tensions with Iran flare over Saudi oil attacks
  6. France forgets own golden age of medical marijuana
  7. Christianity at the Supreme Court: From majority power to minority rights
  8. California law to restrict medical vaccine exemptions raises thorny questions over control
  9. Fidel's Cuba is long gone
  10. How fires weaken Amazon rainforests' ability to bounce back
  11. Repealing the Clean Water Rule will swamp the Trump administration in wetland litigation
  12. What the Jeffrey Epstein case reveals about female sex offenders
  13. What Trump's asylum ban will mean for the thousands waiting at the US-Mexico border
  14. Why does the CDC want us to 'Think Fungus'?
  15. Gas shortages paralyze Haiti, triggering protests against failing economy and dysfunctional politics
  16. Climate change created today's large crocodiles
  17. 3 tips for Justin Trudeau on how to say 'I'm sorry'
  18. Why the United Auto Workers GM strike is headed for failure
  19. Mississippi: African American voters sue over election law rooted in the state's racist past
  20. Curious Kids: What was the first computer?
  21. Attacks on Saudi oil – why didn't prices go crazy?
  22. There's evidence that climate activism could be swaying public opinion in the US
  23. 4 reasons why we'll never see another show like 'Friends'
  24. An origin story for the queer community
  25. 'Always sticking to your convictions' sounds like a good thing – but it isn't
  26. What if college athletes got paid? 3 questions answered
  27. It’s high time someone studied marijuana taxes – so we did
  28. What is the cryosphere? Hint: It's vital to farming, fishing and skiing
  29. Marriage could be good for your health – unless you're bisexual
  30. An Alzheimer's study used electrostimulation to evoke vivid memories – here's what it could mean
  31. Partisan divide creates different Americas, separate lives
  32. Textbook merger could create more problems than just higher prices
  33. From smoking to vaping: Why do we abuse our lungs?
  34. A digital archaeologist helps inaccessible collections be seen
  35. We're increasingly bombarded with choices – and it's stressing us out
  36. Fed’s rate cut signals a recession may be ahead – and it may not have enough ammunition to fight it
  37. 'Chernobyl' shows how mass mobilizations saved Europe and doomed the Soviet Union
  38. Moscow’s municipal elections illustrate the growing political crisis in Russia
  39. Youth climate movement puts ethics at the center of the global debate
  40. Reimagining eggshells and other everyday items to grow human tissues and organs
  41. Video games can bring history back to life
  42. Video games can bring older family members' personal history back to life
  43. Collagen in your coffee? A scientist says forget it
  44. How does the 'unidentified political object' that is the European Union really work?
  45. Malicious bots and trolls spread vaccine misinformation – now social media companies are fighting back
  46. Are conspiracy theories on the rise in the US?
  47. I researched Uighur society in China for 8 years and watched how technology opened new opportunities – then became a trap
  48. Fish larvae float across national borders, binding the world's oceans in a single network
  49. The 4 big questions that the next Israeli government will decide
  50. Wall Street is ignoring the omens of recession – here's why