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Rap music and threats of violence: A case for the Supreme Court to decide

  • Written by Clay Calvert, Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication, University of Florida
Jamal Knox, the rapper known as 'Mayhem Mal.'Screenshot, KDKA CBS Pittsburgh

Kendrick Lamar won a Pulitzer Prize last year and Eminem set a record in 2019 for streams on Spotify. But the acceptance and embrace of rap music in mainstream culture isn’t shared by everyone – and that sometimes includes the police.

Controversy between the...

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How Gates Foundation's push for 'high-quality' curriculum will stifle teaching

  • Written by Nicholas Tampio, Associate Professor of Political Science, Fordham University
A new grant from the Gates Foundation to promote 'high-quality' curriculum comes with strings that could constrain teachers.Kues/www.shutterstock.com

For much of American history, local school districts had a large amount of discretion over what they taught and how.

In my book on the Common Core, I show how the national education standards in...

Read more: How Gates Foundation's push for 'high-quality' curriculum will stifle teaching

The shutdown took so long to end because it became a moral issue

  • Written by Timothy Ryan, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
President Donald Trump speaks in the Rose Garden.AP Photo/ Evan Vucci

Even as the partial shutdown of the federal government came to an end, many Americans were left baffled.

Why didn’t Congress and the president strike a deal sooner?

Hundreds of thousands of federal employees were asked to work without pay because of a fight over a border...

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Separation of powers: An invitation to struggle

  • Written by Bruce Peabody, Professor of American Politics, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Letter from President Trump to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.AP/Wayne Partlow

There’s been a lot of trouble in the nation’s capital lately.

The United States just endured a monthlong government shutdown affecting services ranging from airline travel to tax collection.

Congress and the president have battled over where and even whether to hol...

Read more: Separation of powers: An invitation to struggle

Amazon deforestation, already rising, may spike under Bolsonaro

  • Written by Robert T. Walker, Professor of Latin American Studies, University of Florida
Munduruku tribal people are demanding that Brazil's government respect their land rights.AP Photo/Eraldo Peres

Over the past 25 years that I have been conducting environmental research in the Amazon, I have witnessed the the ongoing destruction of the world’s biggest rainforest. Twenty percent of it has been deforested by now – an area...

Read more: Amazon deforestation, already rising, may spike under Bolsonaro

Sylvia Plath's new short story was never 'lost' – so why is the media saying it was 'just discovered'?

  • Written by Bethany Anderson, University Archivist, University of Virginia
Archivists put an immense amount of work into organizing, digitizing and maintaining repositories.AP Photo/Matt Dunham

The recent publication of Sylvia Plath’s short story “Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom” has been met with much fanfare, with the media eager to highlight that the story had been “lost,” only to have...

Read more: Sylvia Plath's new short story was never 'lost' – so why is the media saying it was 'just...

A proposal to reduce vaccine exemptions while respecting rights of conscience

  • Written by Stacie Kershner, Associate Director, Center for Law, Health & Society, Georgia State University
Many parents object to vaccination for religious reasons, while others may file for exemptions for convenience. Africa Studios/Shutterstock.com

Vaccine resistance is one of the top 10 threats to global health in 2019, according to the World Health Organization. Here in the U.S., New York City is currently experiencing its worst outbreak of measles i...

Read more: A proposal to reduce vaccine exemptions while respecting rights of conscience

Rural people with disabilities are still struggling to recover from the recession

  • Written by Lillie Greiman, Project Director, RTC: Rural, The University of Montana
Since the Great Recession, the employment rate has gone up — but some rural groups lag behind.Josh Sorenson, CC BY

After the devastating losses of the Great Recession, the U.S. has enjoyed one of the longest expansions in its recorded history. For nearly 100 straight months, the U.S. economy has added jobs.

But not all groups have shared...

Read more: Rural people with disabilities are still struggling to recover from the recession

Can you life-hack your way to love?

  • Written by Joseph Reagle, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Northeastern University
True love could be hiding inside mounds of data.xtock/Shutterstock.com

There’s never been a shortage of dating advice from family, friends and self-help authors. Yet in the digital age, people are turning to nerdy hacker-types as guides.

At first, they might seem like an odd source of romantic advice, but think again: Computer programmers...

Read more: Can you life-hack your way to love?

How will generations that didn't experience the Holocaust remember it?

  • Written by Timothy Langille, Lecturer, Arizona State University
Childhood Holocaust survivors Simon Gronowski and Alice Gerstel Weit touring the Los Angeles Holocaust Museum.AP Photo/Reed Saxon

The Soviet Red Army liberated the most notorious of the Nazi death camps, Auschwitz-Birkenau, on Jan. 27, 1945.

This year, the United Nations and 39 countries will commemorate that date with International Holocaust...

Read more: How will generations that didn't experience the Holocaust remember it?

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  2. How corruption in forensic science is harming the criminal justice system
  3. In Haiti, climate aid comes with strings attached
  4. Live cargo: How scientists pack butterflies, frogs and sea turtles for safe travels
  5. 3 ways to make your voice heard besides protesting
  6. Why the Davos elites are still relevant
  7. I studied buttons for 7 years and learned these 5 lessons about how and why people push them
  8. University scientists feel the pain of the government shutdown, too
  9. Are federal workers being forced into involuntary servitude?
  10. There's a wider scandal suggested by the Trump investigations
  11. You can't control what you can't find: Detecting invasive species while they're still scarce
  12. Not so long ago, cities were starved for trees
  13. Gene drive technology makes mouse offspring inherit specific traits from parents
  14. Digital technology offers new ways to teach lessons from the Holocaust
  15. What Trump and Pelosi can learn from a different kind of shutdown that crippled the nation
  16. Venezuela power struggle plunges nation into turmoil: 3 essential reads
  17. Data privacy rules in the EU may leave the US behind
  18. Why it's wrong to label students 'at-risk'
  19. How to show gratitude to TSA workers
  20. Personal diplomacy has long been a presidential tactic, but Trump adds a twist
  21. Inside the Kingdom of Hayti, 'the Wakanda of the Western Hemisphere'
  22. Have you caught a catfish? Online dating can be deceptive
  23. Women are better than men at the free throw line
  24. We can't save everything from climate change – here's how to make choices
  25. The Trump administration wants to tighten SNAP work requirements, bypassing Congress
  26. Why paper maps still matter in the digital age
  27. Are microbes causing your milk allergy?
  28. Shutdown's economic impact is a forceful reminder of why government matters
  29. Lessons from 'Spider-Man': How video games could change college science education
  30. Nazis and communists tried it too: Foreign interference in US elections dates back decades
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  32. Howard Thurman – the Baptist minister who had a deep influence on MLK
  33. A teen scientist helped me discover tons of golf balls polluting the ocean
  34. America's public schools seldom bring rich and poor together – and MLK would disapprove
  35. Martin Luther King Jr., union man
  36. What a 16th-century mystic can teach us about making good decisions
  37. Bison are back, and that benefits many other species on the Great Plains
  38. How Central American migrants helped revive the US labor movement
  39. Food is medicine: How US policy is shifting toward nutrition for better health
  40. What’s an index fund?
  41. Can genetic engineering save disappearing forests?
  42. Data breaches are inevitable – here's how to protect yourself anyway
  43. Is winter miserable for wildlife?
  44. 3 ways Trump could disrupt health care for the better
  45. Razor burned: Why Gillette's campaign against toxic masculinity missed the mark
  46. El juicio al Chapo evidencia por qué un muro no detendrá el tráfico de drogas entre México y Estados Unidos
  47. A new way to curb nitrogen pollution: Regulate fertilizer producers, not just farmers
  48. Trump's interpreters for Putin meetings face ethical dilemma
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