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A brief history of television interviews -- and why live TV helps those who lie and want to hide

  • Written by Michael J. Socolow, Associate Professor, Communication and Journalism, University of Maine
Chris Wallace interviewed White House adviser Stephen Miller about the impeachment investigation.Screenshot, Fox News

First, it happened on Fox News. Chris Wallace asked White House adviser Stephen Miller about the president’s decision to use private lawyers “to get information from the Ukrainian government rather than go through...

Read more: A brief history of television interviews -- and why live TV helps those who lie and want to hide

Ukraine's President Zelenskiy may come to regret his discussion with President Trump

  • Written by Lena Surzhko-Harned, Assistant Teaching Professor of Political Science, Pennsylvania State University
President Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Sept. 25, 2019, in New York. AP/Evan Vucci

The scandal that erupted in response to the July phone conversation between President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has had obvious consequences for Trump.

But there also are consequences for the...

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More frequent and intense tropical storms mean less recovery time for the world's coastlines

  • Written by Hans Paerl, Professor of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
More frequent coastal storms are stressing ecosystems like these North Carolina marshes.PumpkinSky/Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

Tropical cyclones – storms that bring strong, rotating winds and rain, and which can intensify into hurricanes or typhoons – affect coastal regions around the world. Our research team, centered at the University of...

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Low blood pressure could be a culprit in dementia, studies suggest

  • Written by Kenneth McLeod, Professor of Systems Science, and Director - Clinical Science and Engineering Research Laboratory, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Low blood pressure may cause problems for many older people.Satyrenko/Shutterstock.com

Decline in brain function often occurs as people age. People often worry that declining brain function is an inevitable part of growing old and will lead to dementia, but it is not. Many people do not experience age-related cognitive decline.

Clinical studies that...

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A father-physician tests if a little peanut a day keeps allergy away

  • Written by Edwin Kim, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics and Director of the UNC Food Allergy Initiative, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Creamy and smooth peanut butter and peanuts can trigger deadly reactions in those with allergies.inewsfoto/Shutterstock.com, CC BY-SA

No one I knew had food allergy, let alone peanut allergy, when I was a child. I grew up at a time when peanuts were given freely on airplanes, and there was no such thing as a peanut-free table at school. Fast...

Read more: A father-physician tests if a little peanut a day keeps allergy away

Could President Trump be impeached and convicted – but also reelected?

  • Written by Austin Sarat, Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
If he's kicked out, could he come back?AP Photo/Evan Vucci

The launching of an “official impeachment inquiry” into President Donald Trump’s conduct has sailed America into largely uncharted waters.

While there have been demands for the impeachment of many presidents, just three previous ones – Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon and...

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The Electoral College will never make everyone happy

  • Written by Mark Rush, Professor of Politics and Law and Director of Center for International Education, Washington and Lee University

With the presidential election looming, worried observers of politics have already asked whether the Electoral College will again deliver a victory to the candidate with less than a majority of the popular vote.

This has happened in two of the last five presidential elections.

Critics like Vox’s Ezra Klein contend that this phenomenon is not...

Read more: The Electoral College will never make everyone happy

What Gandhi believed is the purpose of a corporation

  • Written by Geoffrey Jones, Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Harvard Business School
Gandhi had a lot to say about how business leaders should behave. AP Photo/James A. Mills

Mahatma Gandhi is celebrated across the globe as an idealist who used civil disobedience to frustrate and overthrow British colonialists in India.

The popularity of his nonviolent teachings – which inspired civil rights activists such as Martin Luther...

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Leave 'em laughing instead of crying: Climate humor can break down barriers and find common ground

  • Written by Maxwell Boykoff, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Director, Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Colorado Boulder
Protest in Gauhati, India, on Sept. 20, 2019, part of worldwide demonstrations ahead of a U.N. summit in New York. AP Photo/Anupam Nath

Climate change is not inherently funny. Typically, the messengers are serious scientists describing how rising greenhouse gas emissions are harming the planet on land and at sea, or assessing what role it played in...

Read more: Leave 'em laughing instead of crying: Climate humor can break down barriers and find common ground

For male students, technical education in high school boosts earnings after graduation

  • Written by Shaun M. Dougherty, Associate Professor of Public Policy & Education, Vanderbilt University
Students in the electrical program at H.C. Wilcox Technical High School in Meriden, Connecticut practice their skills.Connecticut Technical Education and Career System

Job prospects for young men who only have a high school diploma are particularly bleak. They are even worse for those who have less education. When young men experience joblessness,...

Read more: For male students, technical education in high school boosts earnings after graduation

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