The Conversation

Lending a helping paw: Dogs will aid their crying human

Written by Julia Meyers-Manor, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Ripon College

I'll try to be there for you 100 percent.Chris Gladis, CC BY-ND

From Lassie to Balto, pop culture loves stories of a dog coming to a person’s rescue. Anecdotally, people experience their dogs coming to their aid every day, like when one of us found herself “trapped” by her children under a pile of pillows only to be...

3 questions about tequila, answered

Written by Jeffrey Miller, Associate Professor and Program Coordinator, Hospitality Management, Colorado State University

An agave plant cutter, or 'jimador,' cuts the tips off from agave branches at a Jose Cuervo blue agave field.AP Photo/Guillermo Arias

In less than a decade, worldwide sales of tequila have doubled, while sales of premium and ultra-premium brands have shot up by 292 percent and 706 percent, respectively.

In recent years, you may have heard of tequila...

Sex education lessons from Mississippi and Nigeria

Written by Rachel Sullivan Robinson, Associate Professor, American University School of International Service

A poster on the wall of the International Centre for Sexual Reproductive Rights, an NGO based in Minna, NigeriaAuthor provided

Nigeria and Mississippi are a world apart physically, but the rural American state and the African country have much in common when it comes to the obstacles they had to overcome to implement sex education in their schools.

T...

Putin's interference in US elections undermines faith in American democracy

Written by Pippa Norris, ARC Laureate Fellow, Professor of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney and McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics, Harvard University

Is your faith in democracy waning?AP Photo/Andrew Harnik

Questions about the legitimacy of the 2016 U.S. presidential election continue to reverberate and deepen partisan mistrust in America.

Doubts have been compounded by the indictment of 12 Russians following intelligence reports of Russian interference with the election. Reports allege the...

Por qué Trump no ha sido impugnado y es probable que nunca lo sea

Written by Jacob Neiheisel, Assistant Professor in Political Science, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

Main Standfirst: Trump con los hombres que podrían reemplazarlo: el vicepresidente Mike Pence, a la izquierda, y el presidente de la Cámara Paul Ryan, a la derecha.Win McNamee/AP Pool

Nota del editor: Destituir a un presidente estadounidense de sus funciones es un proceso que requiere dos pasos. El primer paso es la...

Uso del español en EEUU no aumenta, pese a la inmigración latina

Written by Phillip M Carter, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Florida International University

Subyacente en el acalorado debate sobre la inmigración en Estados Unidos acecha una preocupación a menudo tácita: el lenguaje. Específicamente, si la inmigración de los países de habla hispana podría o no amenazar el dominio del idioma inglés.

Desde hace tiempo, el lenguaje y la...

El uso del español en EEUU no aumenta, pese a la inmigración latina

Written by Phillip M Carter, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Florida International University

Subyacente en el acalorado debate sobre la inmigración en Estados Unidos acecha una preocupación a menudo tácita: la lengua. Específicamente, si la inmigración de los países de habla hispana podría o no amenazar el dominio del idioma inglés.

Desde hace tiempo, el idioma y la...

No aumenta el uso del español en EEUU, a pesar del miedo político sobre la inmigración

Written by Phillip M Carter, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Florida International University

Desde hace tiempo, el lenguaje y la...

How the Mormon church's past shapes its position on immigration today

Written by Matthew Bowman, Associate Professor of History, Henderson State University

Brigham Young and other men are shown preparing women in dresses for war.Harper's Weekly, volume v. 1, November 28, 1857, p. 768. Scan from BX8609.A1a#466, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee library, Brigham Young University.

On July 24, 1847, Brigham Young and 146 other Mormon pioneers made their way into the Salt Lake Valley. They...

As emerging economies bring their citizens online, global trust in internet media is changing

Written by Bhaskar Chakravorti, Dean of Global Business, The Fletcher School, Tufts University

Digital technology was dreamed of as the ultimate connector and leveler, the ideal destroyer of borders and boundaries. The digital community that assembled itself around this summer’s FIFA World Cup shows one example of a true global village, in which people share the same obsessions on the digital planet. That’s a significant...