NewsPronto

 
Men's Weekly

.

The Conversation

Dynasties still run the world

  • Written by Farida Jalalzai, Professor and Hannah Atkins Endowed Chair of Political Science, Oklahoma State University
Worldwide, 1 in 10 presidents and prime ministers has relatives who were already in politics. Europe and Latin America, both democratic regions, have the highest proportion of leaders who come from political families.Shutterstock

Want to get into politics? It helps if you come from the right family.

Our new study, published in the journal Historical...

Read more: Dynasties still run the world

Boeing is doing crisis management all wrong – here's what a company needs to do to restore the public's trust

  • Written by Kelli Matthews, Senior Instructor of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon

In a crisis, time is not on your side.

A crisis creates a vacuum, an informational void that gets filled one way or another. The longer a company or other organization at the center of the crisis waits to communicate, the more likely that void will be filled by critics.

That’s exactly what’s happening to Boeing.

On March 10, Ethiopian...

Read more: Boeing is doing crisis management all wrong – here's what a company needs to do to restore the...

A chess program helped this 8-year-old raise $240,000 and get his family out of a homeless shelter – here's what to look for in a chess program for your child

  • Written by Alexey W. Root, Lecturer in Education, University of Texas at Dallas
Third-grader Tanitoluwa Adewumi was crowned as a New York State Scholastic chess champion on March 10.GoFundMe

Before he won the primary (K-3) championship section of the New York State Scholastic Championships earlier this month, 8-year-old Tanitoluwa Adewumi was living in a New York City homeless shelter with his family, who came to the United...

Read more: A chess program helped this 8-year-old raise $240,000 and get his family out of a homeless shelter...

The promise and peril of the Dominican baseball pipeline

  • Written by Rob Ruck, Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh
Boys practice baseball at a park in San Antonio de Guerra, a small municipality in the Dominican Republic.Reuters/Ricardo Rojas

Latinos will comprise about 30 percent of Major League Baseball rosters on Opening Day, in large part because MLB has systematized its recruiting and developmental programs in the Caribbean over the last 25 years.

While res...

Read more: The promise and peril of the Dominican baseball pipeline

Why the Vatican needs to open its archives on Pope Pius XII

  • Written by Alan Avery-Peck, Kraft-Hiatt Professor in Judaic Studies, College of the Holy Cross
Pope Pius XII.AP Photo

Pope Francis announced recently that, in 2020, the Vatican will open to researchers its archival materials related to Pius XII, who served as pope from 1939 to 1958.

The Vatican generally waits roughly 70 years after the end of a papacy before making archival materials available. In this case, the Vatican has decided to allow...

Read more: Why the Vatican needs to open its archives on Pope Pius XII

Saudi women are going to college, running for office and changing the conservative country

  • Written by Alainna Liloia, Graduate Associate, Ph.D. Student, University of Arizona

Saudi Arabia is a notoriously difficult place to be a woman.

The kingdom enforces a strict interpretation of Islamic law that sees the separation of men and women as a defining aspect of an Islamic society. It also puts men in charge of their female relatives. Under this “guardianship system,” as it’s known, Saudi women must get...

Read more: Saudi women are going to college, running for office and changing the conservative country

Why Trump's recognition of the Golan Heights as Israeli territory matters

  • Written by Dina Badie, Associate Professor of Politics and International Studies, Centre College
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, left, and U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, right, in the Israeli-held Golan Heights on March 11, 2019Ronen Zvulun/Pool via AP

Responding to pressure from the Israeli government, President Donald Trump has signaled via Twitter that his administration is...

Read more: Why Trump's recognition of the Golan Heights as Israeli territory matters

Despite consumer worries, the future of aviation will be more automated

  • Written by Stephen Rice, Associate Professor of Human Factors, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Human pilots, surrounded by automation.Sorbis/Shutterstock.com

In the wake of the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines crashes of Boeing 737 Max planes, people are thinking about how much of their air travel is handled by software and automated systems – as opposed to the friendly pilots sitting in the cockpit.

Older commercial airliners, such as...

Read more: Despite consumer worries, the future of aviation will be more automated

How Trump and Barr could stretch claims of executive privilege and grand jury secrecy

  • Written by Charles Tiefer, Professor of law, University of Baltimore
Attorney General William P. Barr, appointed by Donald Trump, has provided Congress with only a summary of Mueller's report.AP Photo/Alex Brandon/Jose Luis Magana

Attorney General William Barr’s letter to Congress, delivered Sunday, purports to brief lawmakers about the Mueller report.

What it really does is set the stage for a battle royale...

Read more: How Trump and Barr could stretch claims of executive privilege and grand jury secrecy

Does Monsanto's Roundup cause cancer? The law says yes, the science says maybe

  • Written by Richard G. "Bugs" Stevens, Professor, School of Medicine, University of Connecticut
Law and science seek proof in similar ways, but at very different speedsChinnapong/Shutterstock

A federal jury in California has unanimously decided that the weedkiller Roundup was a “substantial factor” in causing the lymphoma of 70-year-old Edwin Hardeman, who had used Roundup on his property for many years. This is the second such...

Read more: Does Monsanto's Roundup cause cancer? The law says yes, the science says maybe

More Articles ...

  1. Cars are regulated for safety – why not information technology?
  2. What President Trump's executive order on campus free speech is really meant to do
  3. Boeing 737 Max: The FAA wanted a safe plane – but didn't want to hurt America’s biggest exporter either
  4. Electronic health records cannot replace a doctor who knows you
  5. Journalism needs to practice transparency in a different way to rebuild credibility
  6. Skip this chore: Cleaning your air conditioner condenser probably won't make it work better
  7. Why flood insurance needs an overhaul: 6 questions answered
  8. Baseball's biggest problem isn't pace of play – it's teams tanking
  9. A new procedure may preserve fertility in kids with cancer after chemo or radiation
  10. March Madness: With gambling legal in eight states, who really wins?
  11. Will more genetically engineered foods be approved under the FDA's new leadership?
  12. We need more teachers of color, so why do we use tests that keep them out of the classroom?
  13. Niger has the world's highest birth rate – and that may be a recipe for unrest
  14. Nuns were secluded to avoid scandals in early Christian monastic communities
  15. Livestreamed massacre means it's time to shut down Facebook Live
  16. Why social movements like #MeToo seem to come out of nowhere
  17. Your pet on pot, or even CBD: Not a good thing, a vet toxicologist explains
  18. Teens have less face time with their friends – and are lonelier than ever
  19. Death penalty moratorium in California – what it means for the state and for the nation
  20. Even if Netanyahu goes, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will continue
  21. The bias hiding in your library
  22. 5 ways summer camp makes a difference – and what to look for in a camp
  23. Violence against women is overlooked in its role in opioid epidemic
  24. A case against a moratorium on germline gene editing
  25. White nationalism, born in the USA, is now a global terror threat
  26. Does most of your paycheck go to rent? That may be hurting your health
  27. The politics of fear: How it manipulates us to tribalism
  28. What is the significance of Friday prayers in Islam?
  29. A half-century before the hashtag, artists were on the front lines of #MeToo
  30. Wastewater is an asset – it contains nutrients, energy and precious metals, and scientists are learning how to recover them
  31. Student loans and 'risk-sharing' – the problem with penalizing colleges when graduates can't pay
  32. For Native Americans, US-Mexico border is an 'imaginary line'
  33. Danger ahead in the constitutional standoff over Trump's emergency declaration
  34. Jupiter's Great Red Spot: A 300-year-old cyclone persists but is shrinking
  35. Why some counties are powerhouses for innovation
  36. Here's how airplane crash investigations work, according to an aviation safety expert
  37. New evidence for a human magnetic sense that lets your brain detect the Earth's magnetic field
  38. From 'Wild Horses' to 'Wild Things,' a window into Maurice Sendak's creative process
  39. Thich Nhat Hanh, the Buddhist monk who introduced mindfulness to the West, prepares to die
  40. Global study of pancreatic cancer offers possible insights into treatment and early detection
  41. Teaching in America's prisons has taught me to believe in second chances
  42. Racists in Congress fought statehood for Hawaii, but lost that battle 60 years ago
  43. Restoring tropical forests isn't meaningful if those forests only stand for 10 or 20 years
  44. Adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census would cost some states their congressional seats
  45. Automated control system caused Ethiopia crash, flight data suggests
  46. Editing genes shouldn't be too scary -- unless they are the ones that get passed to future generations
  47. Marijuana is a lot more than just THC - a pharmacologist looks at the untapped healing compounds
  48. Why a college admissions racket would funnel bribes through a fake charity
  49. Why rich parents are more likely to be unethical
  50. 5 ways the Syrian revolution continues