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Why proactive leadership is important – or how Congress could have prevented Trump's Helsinki fiasco

  • Written by Thomas Bateman, Professor of Management, University of Virginia
Trump and Putin shake hands at the conclusion of their joint news conference.AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais

Imagine you’re speeding along on a highway. Suddenly, the traffic ahead of you slows, forcing you to hit the breaks. Eventually you arrive at the source of the bottleneck: a mattress lying in the right lane. One by one, your fellow...

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The brainwashing myth

  • Written by Rebecca Moore, Emerita Professor of Religious Studies, San Diego State University
We'll say someone's brainwashed only when we disagree with their beliefs or actions.lolloj/Shutterstock.com

Nearly 40 years ago, my two sisters, Carolyn Layton and Annie Moore, were among those who planned the mass deaths in Jonestown on Nov. 18, 1978.

Part of a movement called Peoples Temple, which was led by a charismatic pastor named Jim Jones,...

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How refugees in Britain went from living in old bunkers and stately homes to being detained in cells

  • Written by Jordanna Bailkin, Professor of History, University of Washington

Mass movement of refugees has turned into mass detention in many liberal democracies.

These are strange days to be writing about camps and refugees. As a historian of Britain and a scholar of refugee studies, I have studied how the U.K. handled mass encampments in its recent past, from the First World War to the 1980s.

As I write, the U.S....

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Why attorneys represent immigrants for free

  • Written by Eduardo Capulong, Associate Dean for Clinical and Experiential Education; Professor of Law, The University of Montana
Honduran mother and child with a Border Patrol agent.

Scores of lawyers, paralegals and law students are volunteering to help immigrant families caught in the crosshairs of the Trump administration’s bid to drastically reduce the number of people without papers in the U.S. One of these movement’s highest priorities is assisting the more...

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Why Trump hasn't been impeached – and likely won't be

  • Written by Jacob Neiheisel, Assistant Professor in Political Science, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Trump with the men who would replace him -- Vice President Mike Pence on the left and House Speaker Paul Ryan on the left. Win McNamee/AP Pool

Editor’s note: Removing a president from office is a two-step process. The first step is impeachment. That’s when members of the House indict, or charge, an official with an impeachable offense....

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Americans distrusted US democracy long before Trump's Russia problem

  • Written by Ian Anson, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Historically, the high-water mark for American dissatisfaction with government was the 1970s — the era of Vietnam, Nixon and Watergate. AP Photo/John Duricka

White House special counsel Robert Mueller recently issued 12 indictments alleging that Russian intelligence agents sought to tilt the vote in Donald Trump’s favor by hacking...

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Electric scooters on collision course with pedestrians and lawmakers

  • Written by Jim Sallis, Professorial Fellow, Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research, Australian Catholic University; Emeritus Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California San Diego
A man in downtown Atlanta with an electric scooter on June 26, 2018. Brinley Hineman/ AP Photo

Electric scooters are appearing in many major cities across the country, bringing fun to riders, profits to scooter makers – and lots of potential risks to walkers and riders.

San Diego, where I live, is at the forefront of the proliferation of...

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Cómo vino la Iglesia Católica a oponerse al control de natalidad

  • Written by Lisa McClain, Professor of History and Gender Studies, Boise State University
El Papa Pablo VI prohibió el uso de anticonceptivos en 1968.AP Photo/Jim Pringle

Julio 2018 marca el 50 aniversario de la histórica “Humanae Vitae”, la estricta prohibición del Papa Pablo VI de la anticoncepción artificial, publicada después del desarrollo y evolución de la píldora...

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Microprocessor designers realize security must be a primary concern

  • Written by Mark Hempstead, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tufts University
Are microchips as secure as you think they should be?Yevhenii Kuchynskyi/Shutterstock.com

Computers’ amazing abilities to entertain people, help them work, and even respond to voice commands are, at their heart, the results of decades of technological development and innovation in microprocessor design. Under constant pressure to extract more...

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The rescued Thai boys are considering becoming monks — here's why

  • Written by Andrew Alan Johnson, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University
Thai monks pray during a cleansing ceremony and memorial service for Saman Gunan, the Thai SEAL diver who died while trying to rescue the boys trapped in the cave. AP Photo/Vincent Thian

After their dramatic rescue from Nang Non cave, 12 Thai boys and their soccer coach are mourning the loss of a Thai Navy SEAL, Saman Gunan, who died during the...

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  7. Thing-makers, tool freaks and prototypers: How the Whole Earth Catalog's optimistic message reinvented the environmental movement in 1968
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  19. 3 charts explain how Russians see Trump and US
  20. As Putin-Trump summit nears, 3 charts explain how Russians see the US
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  22. Revisiting Jimmy Carter's truth-telling sermon to Americans
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  24. Central American kids come to the US fleeing record-high youth murder rates at home
  25. Spain's majority-female cabinet embodies women's global rise to power
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  27. Scientist at work: Identifying individual gray wolves by their howls
  28. When Trump calls Russia a 'competitor' for the US, he might be talking about natural gas exports
  29. Trade wars will boost digital manufacturing – at consumers' own homes with personal 3D printers
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  31. As the World Cup winds down and the summit nears, Trump is playing Putin's game
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  33. Why meeting with Putin may just give Trump a popularity boost
  34. Are you suddenly interested in the Supreme Court? You're not alone
  35. Even self-driving cars need driver education
  36. All wildfires are not alike, but the US is fighting them that way
  37. Why vaccine opponents think they know more than medical experts
  38. Here's how to encourage more girls to pursue science and math careers
  39. Why the case of Jahi McMath is important for understanding the role of race for black patients
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