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Fox News isn’t the problem, it’s the media’s obsession with Fox News

  • Written by Michael J. Socolow, Associate Professor, Communication and Journalism, University of Maine
A security guard looks out of the the News Corp. headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, April 2017AP/Mary Altaffer

The American press seems fixated on Fox News and its owners, the Murdoch family.

Recently, The New York Times purported to explain “How Rupert Murdoch’s Empire of Influence Remade the World.” This followed The New...

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Campus free speech laws being enacted in many states, but some may do more harm than good

  • Written by Neal H. Hutchens, Professor of Higher Education, University of Mississippi
More states are passing laws that deal with campus free speech.Chad Zuber from shutterstock.com

Continuing a recent trend, more states are passing laws that deal with free speech rights on college campuses.

Action has also come at the federal level with President Donald Trump’s March 21 executive order on campus free speech. There have also...

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The pitfalls of the narcissistic NBA player

  • Written by Emily Grijalva, Assistant Professor of Organization and Human Resources, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Was Kyrie Irving's leadership style a factor in the Boston Celtics' struggles this season?AP Photo/Matt Slocum

Why do star players sometimes hurt their team’s performance?

Last season, the Boston Celtics made the Eastern Conference Finals without two of their stars, Gordon Hayward and Kyrie Irving.

With Hayward and Irving returning this year,...

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Why Americans appear more likely to support Christian refugees

  • Written by Joannie Tremblay-Boire, Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland
About a million Rohingya refugees are living in Bangladesh.AP Photo/Dar Yasin

An estimated 70 million people worldwide have been forcibly displaced, according to the United Nations. Every two seconds, someone in countries like Syria, Afghanistan, South Sudan and Myanmar is being forced to leave their home. Although 24.5 million of these people have...

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What makes the Impossible Burger look and taste like real beef?

  • Written by Mark R. O'Brian, Professor and Chair of Biochemistry, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
An Impossible Burger sidewalk sign in San Francisco. Chris Allan/Shutterstock.com

People eat animals that eat plants. If we just eliminate that middle step and eat plants directly, we would diminish our carbon footprint, decrease agricultural land usage, eliminate health risks associated with red meat and alleviate ethical concerns over animal...

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Why it's hard to remove, or even diagnose, mentally ill or unstable presidents

  • Written by John Rogan, Visiting Clinical Professor of Law, Fordham University
Richard Nixon flashes the victory sign on the night he received the Republican nomination for president Aug. 9, 1968 in Miami.AP File/AP Photo

In the wake of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, members of Congress set out to update the procedures for handling an unable president. They soon realized that some situations would be far...

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Migrants' stories: Why they flee

  • Written by Anthony W. Fontes, Assistant Professor of Human Security, American University School of International Service
A man hugs his family before leaving for the U.S. border with a migrant caravan from San Salvador, El Salvador, Jan. 16, 2019. AP/Salvador Melendez

Massive influxes of Central American families seeking asylum in the United States are overwhelming U.S. immigration facilities.

The crisis along the U.S. southern border led directly to the forced resig...

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Does legalizing marijuana help or harm Americans? Weighing the statistical evidence

  • Written by Liberty Vittert, Visiting Assistant Professor in Statistics, Washington University in St Louis
More states are giving marijuana the green light.r.classen/shutterstock.com

The legalization of marijuana has been a topic of contention and confusion for both sides of the debate.

The federal government still deems it illegal. But marijuana has been legalized for recreational use in 10 states and the District of Columbia, and a further 21 broadly...

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An analysis of nearly 4 million pitches shows just how many mistakes umpires make

  • Written by Mark T. Williams, James E. Freeman Lecturer in Management, Boston University
Umpire Quinn Wolcott signals a strike out during an at-bat by Toronto Blue Jays' Josh Thole.AP Photo/Ted S. Warren

Baseball is back, and fans can anticipate another season of amazing catches, overpowering pitching, tape-measure home runs – and, yes, controversial calls that lead to blow-ups between umpires and players.

Home plate umpires are...

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For the 'political-infotainment-media complex,' the Mueller investigation was a gold mine

  • Written by Matthew Jordan, Associate Professor of Media Studies, Pennsylvania State University
In the first year of 'Russiagate' coverage, the combined profits from Fox News, MSNBC and CNN increased by 13 percent.Nick Lehr/The Conversation

Almost 60 years ago, President Dwight Eisenhower warned of a new force that fed off and profited from Cold War paranoia: the military-industrial complex.

Over the past couple of years, with Russia...

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