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Stronger fuel standards make sense, even when gas prices are low

  • Written by John DeCicco, Research Professor, University of Michigan
Staffers listen to EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt discuss this policy reversal AP Photo/Andrew Harnik

It’s official: The Trump administration is reversing steps its predecessor had taken to curb gasoline and diesel consumption through stricter car pollution and fuel economy standards.

Rather than heed growing concerns about climate change,...

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Why China's soybean tariffs matter

  • Written by Ian Sheldon, Chair in Agricultural Marketing, Trade and Policy, The Ohio State University
A farmer harvest his soybean field in Loami, Ill. AP Photo/Seth Perlman

China’s plan to levy a 25 percent tariff on imports of U.S. soybeans may come as something of a surprise to most Americans. But to a professor of agricultural economics who studies international commodity markets for a living, this was not at all unexpected.

Even before...

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Sinclair-style employment contracts that require payment for quitting are very uncommon. Here's why

  • Written by Elizabeth C. Tippett, Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Oregon
Sinclair's employment contracts are kind of like a toll road. You have to pay to leave.oriontrail/Shutterstock.com

Sinclair Broadcast Group, a company that owns local news stations across the country, is itself in the news for requiring its newscasters to read a script about “one-sided news stories plaguing our country.”

While that kind...

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Why the Christian right opposes pornography but still supports Trump

  • Written by Kelsy Burke, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Stormy Daniels, an adult star, at a local restaurant in downtown New Orleans.AP Photo/Bill Haber

Many commentators have pointed out the hypocrisy of Christian leaders who claim a moral high ground while supporting President Donald Trump. The latest scandal involving an alleged extramarital affair with pornographic film star Stormy Daniels proves...

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Look up – it's a satellite!

  • Written by Christopher Palma, Associate Teaching Professor and Associate Department Head for Undergraduate Programs in Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University
The ISS sees us on Earth, but look up at night and you may see it, too.NASA , CC BY

I saw my first artificial satellite with my naked eyes during the summer of 1994. I was watching pieces of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact Jupiter from a small observatory with a college astronomy club when someone pointed up – away from the telescope –...

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Why are fewer and fewer Americans fixing their noses?

  • Written by Laurie Essig, Director and Professor of Gender, Sexuality, & Feminist Studies, Middlebury College
The nose isn't going under the knife like it once did.Lightspring/Shutterstock.com

Americans love cosmetic surgery.

Last year in the U.S., there were 1.8 million plastic surgeries and nearly 16 million nonsurgical procedures, like Botox – about one for every 20 Americans.

The US$8 billion industry now has entire beauty magazines devoted to...

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Behind the scenes of Venezuela's deadly prison fire

  • Written by Rebecca Hanson, Assistant Professor Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law and Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida
Families clashed with security forces outside the police station in Valencia, Venezuela, where nearly 70 prisoners died in a March 28 fire.AP Photo/Juan Carlos Hernandez

A fire killed scores of inmates after a riot in a Venezuelan jail in the early morning hours of March 28. Sixty-six detainees died in the flames, as did two female visitors.

The...

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Gaza's nonviolent protesters exploited by Hamas, but feared by Israel

  • Written by Dov Waxman, Professor of Political Science, International Affairs and Israel Studies, Northeastern University
Protesters pray in front of their tents during a demonstration along the Gaza Strip border with Israel, March 30, 2018AP/Adel Hana

Last Friday was an important day for Christians and Jews around the world. For Christians, it was Good Friday, the day that commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus; and for Jews, it was the beginning of the Passover...

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Sure, cancer mutates, but it has other ways to resist treatment

  • Written by Fabian V. Filipp, Assistant Professor of Systems Biology and Cancer Metabolism, University of California, Merced
Professor Fabian V. Filipp with his team working on precision targeting of malignant melanoma.Systems Biology and Cancer Metabolism Laboratory, CC BY-SA

Because of advances in drug design and precision medicine, researchers have been able to target certain molecules within a cell at the root of a particular disease and to develop specific therapies...

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  2. Today's youth reject capitalism, but what do they want to replace it?
  3. I’m suing Scott Pruitt’s broken EPA - here’s how to fix it
  4. Why are Sinclair's scripted news segments such a big deal?
  5. What meeting your spouse online has in common with arranged marriage
  6. Resisting technology, Appalachian style
  7. Half of Earth's satellites restrict use of climate data
  8. Why a census question about citizenship should worry you, whether you're a citizen or not
  9. Genes and environment have equal influence in learning for rich and poor kids, study finds
  10. 5 things to know about the teacher strike in Oklahoma
  11. Why bodycam footage might not clear things up
  12. A chicken in every backyard: Urban poultry needs more regulation to protect human and animal health
  13. It's not my fault, my brain implant made me do it
  14. Costa Rica looks a little less exceptional after its heated election
  15. Statesman, strongman, philosopher, autocrat: China's Xi is a man who contains multitudes
  16. Trump's military policy overlooks data on why transgender troops are fit to serve
  17. Why prime numbers still fascinate mathematicians, 2,300 years later
  18. Fabiano Caruana is poised to do what no American has done since Bobby Fischer. Here's the path he took to get there
  19. Colleges must confront sexual assault and sexual harassment head on
  20. FDR's forest army: How the New Deal helped seed the modern environmental movement 85 years ago
  21. MLK's vision matters today for the 43 million Americans living in poverty
  22. 'Oklahoma!' at 75: Has the musical withstood the test of time?
  23. Martin Luther King Jr. had a much more radical message than a dream of racial brotherhood
  24. How Cambridge Analytica’s Facebook targeting model really worked – according to the person who built it
  25. These are the VA's 3 main problems -- leadership isn't one of them
  26. Cuba's new president: What to expect
  27. Military mission in Puerto Rico after hurricane was better than critics say but suffered flaws
  28. Langston Hughes' hidden influence on MLK
  29. This 'Final Four' takes place over the board – with talent from around the world
  30. Much of what you think you know about Linda Brown – a central figure in Brown v. Board of Education – is wrong
  31. The invisible power of 'flutter' – from plane crashes to snoring to free energy
  32. How Texas is 'building back better' from Hurricane Harvey
  33. A VA hospital you may not know: the Final Salute, and how much we doctors care
  34. Is the growing Russia crisis another Cold War conflict? Nyet
  35. Why you stink at fact-checking
  36. Discovery of a surprise multitasking gene helps explain how new functions and features evolve
  37. Bobbleheads and other free swag star in baseball tax dispute
  38. Why are more people doing gig work? They like it
  39. 4 charts show why Trump's tariffs will hurt everyone – not just China
  40. Why EPA's U-turn on auto efficiency rules gives China the upper hand
  41. Federal spending bill deals blow to school safety research
  42. Improving the lives of those with dementia – by using memories of baseball
  43. Space weather threatens high-tech life
  44. Democracy is in danger when the census undercounts vulnerable populations
  45. How to stay honest this tax season
  46. Busting Russia's fake news the European Union way
  47. Baseball teams need to protect fans from foul balls -- and US courts need to lift MLB's special liability exemption
  48. Abusive relationships: Why it's so hard for women to 'just leave'
  49. Active shooter drills may reshape how a generation of students views school
  50. Hospitals hit back on drug pricing, but will they knock out the problem?