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3 questions about the FISA court answered

  • Written by Lacey Wallace, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Pennsylvania State University
The E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse houses the FISA court. AP Photo/ Evan Vucci

On Feb. 2, President Donald Trump allowed the release of the previously classified “Nunes memo.” The memo, written by Republican congressional aides, criticized information used as the basis for a FISA court surveillance application related to the...

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Trump and Nunes torch tradition of trust between Congress and FBI

  • Written by Douglas M. Charles, Associate Professor of History, Pennsylvania State University
Trump with FBI Director Christopher Wray on Dec. 15, 2017.AP Photo/Evan Vucci

President Donald Trump’s attacks on the FBI may have reached a climax.

In an apparent attempt to discredit Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, staff of the House Intelligence Committee on behalf of its chair Republican Devin Nunes of California, wrote and on Feb. 2 r...

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The complex history of 'In God We Trust'

  • Written by David Mislin, Assistant Professor, Intellectual Heritage Program, Temple University
'In God we Trust' on dollar bills.Stepan Lytovchenko via www.shutterstock.com

In his first State of the Union address President Donald Trump sought to link religion with American identity.

“Together, we are rediscovering the American way. In America, we know that faith and family, not government and bureaucracy, are the center of the American...

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How Americans came to embrace meditation, and with it, Hinduism

  • Written by Vasudha Narayanan, Distinguished Professor, University of Florida
Ben Merk (ANEFO) (GaHetNa (Nationaal Archief NL), via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

This week marks the death anniversary of Mahesh Yogi, the Indian guru who brought transcendental meditation to the West in the sixties and became a spiritual teacher to The Beatles, comedian Jerry Seinfeld and countless other celebrities.

Today, the legacy of the...

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The transformation of the Super Bowl ad experience

  • Written by Mark Bartholomew, Professor of Law, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Neuroscientists have been scanning the brains of select Super Bowl viewers to see how they're reacting to the commercials that air.thaikrit/Shutterstock.com

In an era of increasing media fragmentation, you could describe the Super Bowl as the only annual media event where a substantial portion of the U.S. population gathers at the same time to...

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Fed up with Big Beer's incursion, independent craft breweries push back

  • Written by Ellis Jones, Assistant Professor of Sociology, College of the Holy Cross
Many enthusiasts judge craft beer by more than its flavor. Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock.com

A new seal began to appear on bottles and cans of American craft beer in 2017. It both certifies that the beer came from one of the nation’s independently owned and small-scale breweries and signals that these upstarts are fighting back against the...

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Debunking 3 myths behind 'chain migration' and 'low-skilled' immigrants

  • Written by Raquel Aldana, Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Diversity and Professor of Law, University of California, Davis
A U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services naturalization ceremony.AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee

President Donald Trump has embraced the rhetoric of “chain migration” to spread the message that the United States is legally letting in too many of the wrong kind of immigrant.

That term, however, distorts the facts.

As a scholar on U.S....

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Are autonomous cars really safer than human drivers?

  • Written by Peter Hancock, Professor of Psychology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, University of Central Florida
A key factor is how well people and machines can avoid crashes.Tempe Police Department via AP

Much of the push toward self-driving cars has been underwritten by the hope that they will save lives by getting involved in fewer crashes with fewer injuries and deaths than human-driven cars. But so far, most comparisons between human drivers and...

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Does energy storage make the electric grid cleaner?

  • Written by Naga Srujana Goteti, PhD Student in Energy and Sustainabiltiy, Rochester Institute of Technology
Solar and wind compete with coal power plants when it comes to energy storage systems. AP Photo/Mel Evans

Carbon-free energy: Is the answer blowing in the wind? Perhaps, but the wind doesn’t always blow, nor does the sun always shine. The energy generated by wind and solar power is intermittent, meaning that the generated electricity goes up...

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