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When race triggers a call to campus police

  • Written by Brian N. Williams, Visiting Professor of Public Policy, University of Virginia
College campuses can be unwelcoming environments for racial minorities.Mr. Doomits/www.shutterstock.com

On a beautiful spring afternoon on a picturesque college campus, two campus police officers responded to a black professor’s “good afternoon” with a request to see his identification.

The professor paused for a moment but decided...

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How your social network could save you from a disaster

  • Written by Daniel P. Aldrich, Professor of Political Science, Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Director, Security and Resilience Program, Northeastern University
Evacuating Corpus Christi, Texas ahead of Hurricane Bret in 1999.FEMA

In early November 2017, Brooks Fisher’s neighbor in Sonoma, California, pounded on his door at 2 a.m., rang the doorbell and shouted, “There’s a fire coming and you need to get out now! I can hear trees exploding!”

The sky was orange and the smell of smoke...

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3 charts explain how Russians see Trump and US

  • Written by Erik C. Nisbet, Associate Professor of Communication, Political Science, and Environmental Policy and Faculty Associate with the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, The Ohio State University

Just before the one-on-one summit between President Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump held on July 16, Russian pollster VCIOM asked the Russian public how they viewed the American president and U.S.-Russian relations.

Though an authoritarian country, public opinion is still an important factor that the Russian government takes into account when...

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As Putin-Trump summit nears, 3 charts explain how Russians see the US

  • Written by Erik C. Nisbet, Associate Professor of Communication, Political Science, and Environmental Policy and Faculty Associate with the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, The Ohio State University

Donald Trump sits down with Russian President Vladimir Putin on July 16 in Helsinki for their first one-on-one summit.

In anticipation of this event, Russian pollster VCIOM asked the Russian public this week about how they viewed the American president and U.S.-Russian relations. Though an authoritarian country, public opinion is still an...

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Securing America's voting systems against spying and meddling

  • Written by Jeff Inglis, Science + Technology Editor, The Conversation US
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The federal indictments of 12 Russian government agents accuse them of hacking computers to spy on and meddle with the U.S. 2016 presidential election – including state and county election databases.

With the 2018 midterm congressional elections approaching – along with countless state and local elections – here are...

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Revisiting Jimmy Carter's truth-telling sermon to Americans

  • Written by David Swartz, Associate Professor of History, Asbury University
Employees at a gas station in Los Angeles watch President Jimmy Carter giving his energy speech over national television on July 15, 1979.AP Photo/Mao

Nearly 40 years ago, on July 15, 1979, President Jimmy Carter went on national television to share with millions of Americans his diagnosis of a nation in crisis. “All the legislation in the...

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Emmett Till's life matters

  • Written by Davis W. Houck, Professor, Florida State University
A 1950s photograph of Emmett Till and his mother Mamie Till Mobley, during a visit to Jackson, Miss.AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis

The U.S. federal government is again investigating the case of Emmett Till’s murder, the Department of Justice has announced, bringing optimism that some measure of justice might ultimately prevail.

Nearly 63 years...

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Central American kids come to the US fleeing record-high youth murder rates at home

  • Written by Julio Ernesto Acuna Garcia, Assistant Professor, Economics Department, Universidad San Fracisco de Quito (Ecuador)

Gang violence and expanding criminal networks have made El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala – an area of Central America known as the “Northern Triangle” – some of the world’s most dangerous countries.

El Salvador’s homicide rate in 2016 – 109 murders per 100,000 people – was more than 25 times that...

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Spain's majority-female cabinet embodies women's global rise to power

  • Written by Susan Franceschet, Professor of Political Science, University of Calgary

Gender-equal governments, which include the same number of men and women as ministry heads and in other cabinet posts, used to be the purview of woman-friendly Nordic countries and highly progressive societies like Canada and Costa Rica.

No longer.

Mexico’s president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who takes office in...

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What is Novichok? A neurotoxicologist explains

  • Written by William Atchison, Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Michigan State University
In this file photo taken on on Oct. 4, 1987, a Soviet army officer presents ammunition rigged with chemical agents during a visit by Western diplomats and journalists to a chemical weapons research facility in Shikhany, Saratov region, Russia. The facility in Shikhany led the efforts to develop Soviet chemical weapons, including Novichok-class...

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  3. Trade wars will boost digital manufacturing – at consumers' own homes with personal 3D printers
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  5. As the World Cup winds down and the summit nears, Trump is playing Putin's game
  6. The IceCube observatory detects neutrino and discovers a blazar as its source
  7. Why meeting with Putin may just give Trump a popularity boost
  8. Are you suddenly interested in the Supreme Court? You're not alone
  9. Even self-driving cars need driver education
  10. All wildfires are not alike, but the US is fighting them that way
  11. Why vaccine opponents think they know more than medical experts
  12. Here's how to encourage more girls to pursue science and math careers
  13. Why the case of Jahi McMath is important for understanding the role of race for black patients
  14. Does thinking you look fat affect how much money you earn?
  15. The US is facing a serious shortage of airline pilots
  16. Derecho de asilo: El abuso doméstico y la violencia anti-gay sí se califican como 'persecución'
  17. Nicaragua intenta derrocar a un dictador (de nuevo)
  18. The travel ban in numbers: Why families and refugees lose big
  19. Triclosan, often maligned, may have a good side — treating cystic fibrosis infections
  20. Breastfeeding has been the best public health policy throughout history
  21. The pace of nonprofit media growth is picking up
  22. Trump isn't the first leader to rattle the world order
  23. How cities help immigrants feel at home: 4 charts
  24. Harnessing natural gas to harvest water from the air might solve 2 big problems at once
  25. Meet the foodies who are changing the way Americans eat
  26. Could human cancer treatments be the key to saving sea turtles from a disfiguring tumor disease?
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  28. A long fuse: 'The Population Bomb' is still ticking 50 years after its publication
  29. AT T-Time Warner, net neutrality and how to make sense of the media merger frenzy
  30. Russia is top on NATO's agenda and Trump is the wild card
  31. Which 3-letter agency is enforcing US immigration laws at the border?
  32. Green-baiting lawmakers are accusing environmentalists of doubling as ‘foreign agents’
  33. Mourning death by suicide: How you can provide support for the bereaved
  34. Rock 'n' roll is noise pollution – with ecological implications that can spread through a food web
  35. To improve digital well-being, put your phone down and talk to people
  36. Supreme Court polarization is not inevitable — just look at Europe
  37. Inside the sacred danger of Thailand's caves
  38. A rare instance when preventative screening is worth the dollar cost
  39. Por qué el censo de 2020 no debería preguntar sobre tu ciudadanía
  40. Why is the Strait of Hormuz important?
  41. Silicon Valley's cautionary tale shows what can go wrong when charities get obsessed with growth
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  43. How the Catholic Church came to oppose birth control
  44. Considering race in college admissions – 3 questions answered
  45. Alcohol's health benefits hard to prove, but harms are easy to document
  46. Is the Supreme Court's legitimacy undermined in a polarized age?
  47. What next for the EPA? Here's what Reagan did
  48. We estimate China only makes $8.46 from an iPhone – and that's why Trump's trade war is futile
  49. Poland's judicial purge another step toward authoritarian democracy
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