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Why having the sex talk early and often with your kids is good for them

  • Written by Veronica I. Johnson, Associate Professor, Counselor Education, The University of Montana
imageTalking to your kids about sex is important, even if they don't welcome the conversation. SpeedKingz/Shutterstock.com

Parents may be uncomfortable initiating “the sex talk,” but whether they want to or not, parents teach their kids about sex and sexuality. Kids learn early what a sexual relationship looks like.

Broaching the topic of...

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How the US government created and coddled the gun industry

  • Written by Brian DeLay, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley
imageA U.S. soldier fires a Colt M16 in Vietnam in 1967.U.S. Army

After Stephen Paddock opened fire on Las Vegas concertgoers on Oct. 1, many people responded with calls for more gun control to help prevent mass shootings and the routine violence ravaging U.S. neighborhoods.

But besides a rare consensus on restricting the availability of so-called bump...

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Economist who helped behavioral 'nudges' go mainstream wins Nobel

  • Written by Jay L. Zagorsky, Economist and Research Scientist, The Ohio State University
imageAs a founder of behavioral economics, Thaler has helped change the way economists look at the world. AP Photo/Paul Beaty

The 2017 Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to University of Chicago’s Richard Thaler for his work in behavioral economics, which is the integration of economics with psychology.

While the award was not a total...

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Why would the Trump administration ban travel from Chad?

  • Written by Tricia Bacon, Assistant Professor of Justice, Law & Criminology, American University

In September, the Trump administration issued a revised travel ban after conducting a “worldwide review” to determine whether citizens from other countries posed a security or safety threat.

The administration continued to ban citizens from most of the Muslim majority countries sanctioned in the original order – Somalia, Libya,...

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Why Rick Perry's proposed subsidies for coal fail Economics 101

  • Written by Meredith Fowlie, Associate Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
imageDemolishing the coal-fired R.E. Burger Power Station in Shadyside, Ohio, July 29, 2016.PROFirstEnergy Corp., CC BY-ND

In a controversial proposal, Energy Secretary Rick Perry has asked federal regulators to effectively subsidize coal and nuclear power plants at ratepayers’ expense. Under Perry’s proposal, plants that operate in...

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For Native Americans, a river is more than a 'person,' it is also a sacred place

  • Written by Rosalyn R. LaPier, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, The University of Montana
imageColorado River.AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File

The environmental group Deep Green Resistance recently filed a first-of-its-kind legal suit against the state of Colorado asking for personhood rights for the Colorado River.

If successful, it would mean lawsuits can brought on behalf of the river for any harm done to it, as if it were a person.

In the...

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Indigenous people invented the so-called 'American Dream'

  • Written by Lewis Borck, Archaeologist, Leiden University

When President Barack Obama created Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the 2012 program that offered undocumented young people brought to the U.S. as children a path into society, for a moment the ideals of the American Dream seemed, at least for this group, real.

We call these kids (many of whom are now adults) “Dreamers,”...

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What makes American society so violent? 4 essential reads

  • Written by Emily Costello, Senior Editor, Politics + Society, The Conversation
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Editor’s Note: On Friday, Oct. 6, “Third Rail with OZY” will discuss violence in the United States.

These stories from The Conversation archive explore how violence permeates different aspects of American society.

#1. Kids today

Do American parents teach their kids violent behavior through the use of corporal punishment?...

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The 'inevitable sadness' of Kazuo Ishiguro's fiction

  • Written by Cynthia F. Wong, Professor of English, University of Colorado Denver
imageBritish novelist Kazuo Ishiguro listens to a question during a press conference at his home in London on Oct. 5, 2017.Alastair Grant/AP Photo

On a damp October day in 2006, I followed Kazuo Ishiguro and my 10-year-old daughter Grace to a back table at a bustling cafe in London for an interview. As Ishiguro answered my questions, he explained how he...

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How Columbus, of all people, became a national symbol

  • Written by William Francis Keegan, Curator of Caribbean Archaeology, University of Florida
imageAgricultural Building at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, circa 1893. University of Maryland Digital Collections

Christopher Columbus was a narcissist.

He believed he was personally chosen by God for a mission that no one else could achieve. After 1493, he signed his name “xpo ferens” – “the...

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