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John Chau may have been influenced by past evangelical missions and their belief in power of faith

  • Written by William Svelmoe, Professor of History, Saint Mary's College
What might have motivated the young missionary killed on a remote island in India?AP Photo/Sarah Prince

The recent killing of a 26-year-old U.S. missionary, John Allen Chau, on a remote island in India has raised many questions about global evangelical Protestant missions.

Chau was on a personal mission to convert the Sentinelese, a protected tribe...

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Nominating a crony, loyalist or old buddy for attorney general is a US presidential tradition

  • Written by Austin Sarat, Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
Sen. Jeff Sessions and Donald Trump on the presidential campaign trail, February 2016.AP/John Bazemore

With President Donald Trump’s announcement that he would nominate former Attorney General William P. Barr to fill the position again, Trump chose a prominent Republican lawyer with extensive government experience to run the Justice...

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Mass protests in Colombia mar president's first 100 days but reveal a nation marching toward peace

  • Written by Fabio Andres Diaz, Researcher on Conflict, Peace and Development, International Institute of Social Studies
University students ask for a higher budget for public higher education.AP Photo/Fernando Vergara

Ivan Duque has only been Colombia’s president since August, but already his government is in crisis.

The country that has been gripped by near-constant protest since the 42-year-old conservative took power. But the mass demonstrations that...

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Beware of natural supplements for sex gain and weight loss

  • Written by C. Michael White, Professor and Head of the Department of Pharmacy Practice, University of Connecticut
Natural supplements may be popular, but they can have dangerous side effects when they include prescription drugs.Oleksandr Zamuruiev/Shutterstock.com

Many consumers consider dietary supplements to be natural and, therefore, safe. In fact, the Council for Responsible Nutrition reported in 2017 that 87 percent of U.S. consumers have confidence that...

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Fight for federal right to education takes a new turn

  • Written by Derek W. Black, Professor of Law, University of South Carolina
The nation's founders saw education as key to self-rule.Joseph Sohm/www.shutterstock.com

A new fight to secure a federal constitutional right to education is spreading across the country. This fight has been a long time coming and is now suddenly at full steam.

In 1973, plaintiffs in San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez argued that...

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I used facial recognition technology on birds

  • Written by Lewis Barnett, Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Richmond
Do you know this downy woodpecker?Lewis Barnett, CC BY-SA

As a birder, I had heard that if you paid careful attention to the head feathers on the downy woodpeckers that visited your bird feeders, you could begin to recognize individual birds. This intrigued me. I even went so far as to try sketching birds at my own feeders and had found this to be...

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Hunting for rare isotopes: The mysterious radioactive atomic nuclei that will be in tomorrow's technology

  • Written by Artemis Spyrou, Associate Professor of Nuclear Physics, Michigan State University
Researchers have identified 3,000 radioactive isotopes – and predict 4,000 more are out there.GiroScience/Shutterstock.com

When you hear the term “radioactive” you likely think “bad news,” maybe along the lines of fallout from an atomic bomb.

But radioactive materials are actually used in a wide range of beneficial...

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3 ways Facebook and other social media companies could clean up their acts – if they wanted to

  • Written by Anthony M. Nadler, Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies, Ursinus College
Under fire, but not without options.AP Photo/Francois Mori

Facebook is in crisis mode, but the company can take major steps to fix itself – and the global community it says it wants to promote. Facebook founder, CEO and majority shareholder Mark Zuckerberg need not wait for governments to impose regulations. If he and other industry leaders...

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Could a recession be just around the corner?

  • Written by Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, Rochester Institute of Technology

The U.S. economy is growing at the fastest pace in five years, American companies are earning record profits and unemployment is at the lowest level in almost half a century.

So why are Wall Street and some economists suddenly worried about a recession?

Financial markets in particular have been signaling that trouble is brewing. The Standard &...

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Zika y embarazo: análisis de sangre prenatal podría predecir malformaciones fetales

  • Written by Suan-Sin Foo, Postdoctoral scholar, University of Southern California
Madres y familiares sosteniendo en brazos a bebés que nacieron con microcefalia, uno de los muchos problemas médicos graves causados por el síndrome congénito por el virus del Zika.AP Photo/Felipe Dana

El brote repentino y descontrolado del virus del Zika en 2016 aterrorizó a las mujeres embarazadas, especialmente...

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  5. The John Birch Society is still influencing American politics, 60 years after its founding
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  13. What Hanukkah's portrayal in pop culture means to American Jews
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  17. George H.W. Bush's overlooked legacy in space exploration
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  22. White nationalist groups are really street gangs, and law enforcement needs to treat them that way
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