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Michael Cohen's testimony on Trump business reveals conduct that's widespread in corporate America

  • Written by Bert Spector, Associate Professor of International Business and Strategy at the D'Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University

The Trump Organization, Donald Trump’s private, family-run business, is well known to have operated at the fringes of what’s legal. Trump got his start in the rough-and-tumble atmosphere of New York City real estate development, after all.

And so, as someone who pays close attention to how businesses operate, I was glued to the Feb. 27...

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Michael Cohen's verbal somersault, 'I lied, but I'm not a liar,' translated by a rhetoric expert

  • Written by Jennifer Mercieca, Associate Professor of Communication, Texas A&M University

Michael Cohen, who admits to lying, also says he’s not a liar.

Can we separate what someone does from who they are? Cohen thinks we should and it would help us to understand both him and Trump better.

Cohen, Donald Trump’s former personal attorney and fixer, testified before Congress about his former client Wednesday.

Cohen claimed that...

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Cuba actualiza su Constitución, expandiendo derechos pero posponiendo cambios radicales

  • Written by María Isabel Alfonso, Professor of Spanish, St. Joseph's College of New York

Cuba no legaliza el matrimonio gay en su nueva Constitución, un paso percibido como un retroceso por algunos activistas LGBTQ en la isla.

Un artículo que redefinía al matrimonio como la unión “entre dos personas” – y no como “entre hombre y mujer” – fue eliminado de la...

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What Catholic Church records tell us about America's earliest black history

  • Written by Jane Landers, Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
St Augustine Catholic Church Archive.David LaFevor, CC BY

For most Americans, black history begins in 1619, when a Dutch ship brought some “20 and odd Negroes” as slaves to the English colony of Jamestown, in Virginia.

Many are not aware that black history in the United States goes back at least a century before this date.

In 1513, a...

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3 things schools should teach about America's history of white supremacy

  • Written by Noelle Hurd, Scully Family Discovery Associate Professor in Psychology, University of Virginia
A Ku Klux Klan parade in Washington, D.C., in 1926.Everett Historical from www.shutterstock.com

When it comes to how deeply embedded racism is in American society, blacks and whites have sharply different views.

For instance, 70 percent of whites believe that individual discrimination is a bigger problem than discrimination built into the...

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China is catching up to the US on artificial intelligence research

  • Written by Thomas H. Davenport, Professor of Information Technology and Management, Babson College
The U.S. may be ahead for now, but not by much.onime/Shutterstock.com

Researchers, companies and countries around the world are racing to explore – and exploit – the possibilities of artificial intelligence technology. China is working on an extremely aggressive multi-billion-dollar plan for government investment into AI research and...

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Will terrorism continue to decline in 2019?

  • Written by Gary LaFree, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland

Lost in the headlines, rapidly accelerating news cycles and the pervasive fear generated by terrorist threats is the fact that terrorist attacks worldwide have actually been declining – in some areas substantially.

Terrorism researchers like me have long noted that the number of terrorist attacks rises andfalls in waves – generally...

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A Danish word the world needs to combat stress: Pyt

  • Written by Marie Helweg-Larsen, Professor of Psychology, the Glenn E. & Mary Line Todd Chair in the Social Sciences, Dickinson College
Instead of overreacting to minor slights, it's healthier to just say, 'pyt.'Ezume Images/Shutterstock.com

Danes are some of the happiest people in the world, and they also happen to have a lot of cool words for ways to be happy.

You may have heard about “hygge,” which has been the subject of countless books, articles and commercials....

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Cuba expands rights but rejects radical change in updated constitution

  • Written by María Isabel Alfonso, Professor of Spanish, St. Joseph's College of New York

Cuba has rejected a proposal to legalize same-sex marriage in its new and revised constitution, a move that disappointed some gay rights activists.

An article that would have redefined marriage as a “union between two people” – rather than a “union between a man and a woman” – was eliminated from a proposed new...

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Cultured meat seems gross? It's much better than animal agriculture

  • Written by Matti Wilks, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Psychology, Yale University
World's first lab-grown beef burger. Would you eat it?David Parry / PA Wire, CC BY-ND

The world is in the grips of a food-tech revolution. One of the most compelling new developments is cultured meat, also known as clean, cell-based or slaughter-free meat. It’s grown from stem cells taken from a live animal without the need for slaughter.

Propo...

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