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Trump travel ban targeting Muslims will not make America safer

  • Written by Rebecca Jayne Wolfe, Fellow, Program for Refugees, Forced Migration and Humanitarian Action, Yale University
People protest the U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding President Donald Trump's travel ban outside the Supreme Court in Washington, June 26, 2018.AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster

The U.S. Supreme Court recently upheld the Trump administration’s policy barring people from several predominantly Muslim nations from entering the U.S., ruling that the...

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Today’s US-Mexico 'border crisis' in 6 charts

  • Written by Douglas Massey, Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
A Border Patrol agent in New Mexico.REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

The news today is full of dire pronouncements about the “crisis” at the Mexico-U.S. border. In reality, there is no crisis, at least as portrayed in the press and by the Trump administration.

Undocumented entries across the border are, in fact, at all-time lows. The mass...

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¿Amnistía para traficantes? Eso propone este candidato presidencial mexicano

  • Written by Luis Gómez Romero, Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Wollongong
¿Puede México convertirse en una “república amorosa” construida en el perdón en vez del castigo?Shutterstock/Nalidsa

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Con más de 29.000 asesinatos, 2017 ha sido el año más mortífero del que se guarde registro en México. Casi dos tercios de los mexicanos afirman...

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The long history of separating families in the US and how the trauma lingers

  • Written by Jessica Pryce, Executive Director, The Florida Institute for Child Welfare, Florida State University
Immigrant children play inside the Catholic Charities RGV in Texas. AP Photo/David J. Phillip

During the last few weeks, hundreds of families have been separated, following the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy towards illegal immigrants. Even though the separations have reportedly stopped, it is not clear when the...

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Supreme Court ruling adds privacy protection for the digital age

  • Written by Jonathan Weinberg, Professor of Law, Wayne State University
Your phone knows where you've been.LightAndShare/Shutterstock.com

The Supreme Court has handed down a landmark privacy decision in a case about cellphone location data, suggesting there should be stronger protections against government searches for the increasing amount of private information that’s stored online.

The case relates to location...

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Bitcoin price manipulation puts trust in cryptocurrencies at risk

  • Written by Neil Gandal, Professor of Economics, Tel Aviv University

Cryptocurrencies like bitcoin have grown in popularity in large part because they can be bought and sold without a government or other third party overseeing everything. But there’s a flipside: Unlike in markets for other assets such as stocks or bonds, it makes it much harder to uncover price manipulation and fraud.

But that’s what the...

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New data shows US hate crimes continued to rise in 2017

  • Written by Brian Levin, Professor, Department of Criminal Justice and Director, Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism, California State University San Bernardino
Hate crimes increased in many major cities in 2016 and 2017.Christopher Penler/shutterstock

Published FBI data currently covers hate crimes only up to 2016, when totals increased across the nation for the second year in a row.

Our team of academic researchers specialize in analyzing and forecasting hate crime trends. We have collected new police...

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A new world is dawning, and the US will no longer lead it

  • Written by Gordon Adams, Professor Emeritus, American University School of International Service
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center, speaks with U.S. President Donald Trump, at the contentious G7 Leaders Summit in Canada in June. AP/Jesco Denzel/German Federal Government

From pulling out of treaties to denigrating allies to starting trade wars, the impulsive actions of President Donald Trump are upending the international order that has...

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Treating pain in children can teach us about treating pain in adults

  • Written by Hilary A. Marusak, Postdoctoral research fellow, Wayne State University
Instructor Sensei Giuseppe of Kids Kicking Cancer Italy, teaching a young cancer patient in Bergamo, Italy, on June 6, 2018. Elimelech Goldberg/Kids Kicking Cancer Italy , CC BY-SA

The U.S. government declared a national public health emergency in October 2017 to address the opioid addiction crisis. More than six months later, the country is still...

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Growth mindset interventions yield impressive results

  • Written by Carol Dweck, Professor of Psychology, Stanford University
Growth mindset interventions are becoming increasingly popular in schools.Lightspring/www.shutterstock.com

A growth mindset is the belief that intellectual abilities are not fixed, but can be developed. Do students who are taught a growth mindset earn higher grades and test scores?

Brooke Macnamara and her colleagues, who conducted a meta-analysis...

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  1. Schools are buying 'growth mindset' interventions despite scant evidence that they work well
  2. Why it's time to curb widespread use of neonicotinoid pesticides
  3. For many immigrant families, the fight for reunification is just beginning
  4. Searching for diversity in Silicon Valley tech firms – and finding some
  5. The latest blood pressure guidelines: What they mean for you
  6. The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is in trouble – but the ground beneath it may buy some time
  7. How immigration court works
  8. School safety commission should not worry about violence in entertainment media
  9. Social impact bonds, explained
  10. How colleges must collaborate to lift up the communities just outside their door
  11. Helping plants remove natural toxins could boost crop yields by 47 percent
  12. How Catholic women fought against Vatican's prohibition on contraceptives
  13. Why care about undocumented immigrants? For one thing, they've become vital to key sectors of the US economy
  14. Trump's new plan to consolidate federal food safety efforts won't work. Here's why
  15. Nationalism and piety dominate Turkey's election
  16. Las bebidas light pueden perjudicar tu dieta
  17. El bombardeo de noticias falsas distorsiona la realidad en Venezuela
  18. Physical therapy could lower need for opioids, but lack of money and time are hurdles
  19. The Bezos-Buffett-Dimon health care venture: Eliminate the middlemen
  20. China cannot spend its way to soccer greatness
  21. Preventing crimes against humanity in the US
  22. The 3 stages of giving: Deference, arrogance and inquiry
  23. Making art 'should be uncomfortable' – a conversation with visual artist Lorna Simpson
  24. It's time for a new approach to travel
  25. A sudden and lasting separation from a parent can permanently alter brain development
  26. Corporate CEOs' political voice growing louder as they criticize Trump policies like separating migrant children
  27. Why our brains see the world as 'us' versus 'them'
  28. Sitting and diabetes in older adults: Does timing matter?
  29. What the US can learn from other countries in dealing with pain and the opioid crisis
  30. How the Trump Foundation could undercut the public trust in charitable giving
  31. After volcano eruption, Guatemalans lead their own disaster recovery
  32. How refugee children make American education stronger
  33. Opioids don't have to be addictive – the new versions will treat pain without triggering pleasure
  34. Breaking up families? America looks like a Dickens novel
  35. In retirement, most ex-presidents can't resist the urge to stay relevant
  36. Misinformation and biases infect social media, both intentionally and accidentally
  37. 9 essential reads on the Supreme Court and gerrymandering
  38. Why turning homelessness into a crime is cruel and costly
  39. A way around opioids: Target the type of pain for better pain relief
  40. Extreme stress during childhood can hurt social learning for years to come
  41. Trump and Sessions can end immigrant family separations without Congress' help
  42. Forced migration from Central America: 5 essential reads
  43. Yoga isn't timeless: it's changing to meet contemporary needs
  44. How setting a schedule can make you less productive
  45. How to heal African-Americans' traumatic history
  46. Juneteenth: Freedom's promise is still denied to thousands of blacks unable to make bail
  47. The public health benefits of adding offshore wind to the grid
  48. 30 years ago global warming became front-page news – and both Republicans and Democrats took it seriously
  49. More mental health care alone will not stop gun violence
  50. What it means to be a Christian in America today