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Israel's political stalemate reveals the power of ultra-Orthodox Jews

  • Written by Joyce Dalsheim, Association Professor of Global Studies, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and former Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman. AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File

Benjamin Netanyahu has hit a snag that could derail his chances of becoming the longest-serving prime minister in the history of Israel.

Netanyahu failed to form a governing coalition and dissolved parliament on...

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What Israel's new election reveals about the struggle over Jewishness

  • Written by Joyce Dalsheim, Association Professor of Global Studies, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and former Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman. AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File

Benjamin Netanyahu has hit a snag that could derail his chances of becoming the longest-serving prime minister in the history of Israel.

Netanyahu failed to form a governing coalition and dissolved parliament on...

Read more: What Israel's new election reveals about the struggle over Jewishness

The US drinking water supply is mostly safe, but that's not good enough

  • Written by Joan Rose, Laboratory Director/Principal Investigator in Water Research, Michigan State University
Bottled water distribution in Glenwood, Iowa, where massive spring flooding along the Missouri River disrupted drinking water treatment, April 3, 2019.AP Photo/Nati Harnik

Most Americans take clean drinking water for granted as a convenience of modern life. The United States has one of the world’s safest drinking water supplies, but new...

Read more: The US drinking water supply is mostly safe, but that's not good enough

A radical idea to get a high-renewable electric grid: Build way more solar and wind than needed

  • Written by Richard Perez, Senior Research Associate in Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, University at Albany, State University of New York
Expanding solar power potential more than it's needed could replace more expensive energy storage.Jamey Stillings, CC BY-SA

The famous inventor Edwin Land said, “It’s not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.” He seemed to be telling us that solutions lie just beyond our old habits of thinking.

Cities,...

Read more: A radical idea to get a high-renewable electric grid: Build way more solar and wind than needed

This year the flu came in two waves – here’s why

  • Written by Patricia L. Foster, Professor Emerita of Biology, Indiana University
They're not perfect, but flu shots are still good to get.AP Photo/David Goldman

The just-ended 2018-2019 flu season was relatively mild compared to the last season, during which nearly 80,000 people in the U.S. died of flu-related illness, according to estimates by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

This year’s death toll is...

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We're in a golden age of black horror films

  • Written by Robin R. Means Coleman, Vice President and Associate Provost for Diversity; Professor, Department of Communication, Texas A&M University
Octavia Spencer is one of the few black women to have a lead role in a horror film.Universal Pictures/YouTube

In the horror genre, black is definitely back.

The movie “Ma,” which premieres on May 31, will star Academy Award winner Octavia Butler as Sue Ann, a lonely middle-age woman who clings to a group of teens to the point of...

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Congressional action on Yemen may be the first salvo against presidential war powers

  • Written by R. Joseph Parrott, Assistant Professor of History, The Ohio State University
Police officers loyal to the Houthi rebels march during a military parade in Sanaa, Yemen in July 2017. The placards read: 'Allah is the greatest. Death to America, death to Israel, a curse on the Jews, victory to Islam.'REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

The Trump administration on May 24 announced an emergency declaration to sell billions of dollars worth...

Read more: Congressional action on Yemen may be the first salvo against presidential war powers

Gene-edited babies don't grow in test tubes -- mothers' roles shouldn't be erased

  • Written by Rachel Adams, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
He Jiankui claims he helped make the world's first genetically edited babies: twin girls whose DNA he said he altered. AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein

A baby with incandescent green eyes, a baby stamped with a bar code, another with a glowing gold brain: these are some of the images illustrating stories about the gene-edited twin girls born last...

Read more: Gene-edited babies don't grow in test tubes -- mothers' roles shouldn't be erased

Gene-edited babies don't grow in test tubes — mothers' roles shouldn't be erased

  • Written by Rachel Adams, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
He Jiankui claims he helped make the world's first genetically edited babies: twin girls whose DNA he said he altered. AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein

A baby with incandescent green eyes, a baby stamped with a bar code, another with a glowing gold brain: these are some of the images illustrating stories about the gene-edited twin girls born last...

Read more: Gene-edited babies don't grow in test tubes — mothers' roles shouldn't be erased

Gene-edited babies don't grow in test tubes – mothers' roles shouldn't be erased

  • Written by Rachel Adams, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
He Jiankui claims he helped make the world's first genetically edited babies: twin girls whose DNA he said he altered. AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein

A baby with incandescent green eyes, a baby stamped with a bar code, another with a glowing gold brain: these are some of the images illustrating stories about the gene-edited twin girls born last...

Read more: Gene-edited babies don't grow in test tubes – mothers' roles shouldn't be erased

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  14. 'World Heritage' site selection is Eurocentric – and that shapes which historic places get love and money
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