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What post-Weinstein Hollywood can learn from '90s sexual harassment training

  • Written by Elizabeth C. Tippett, Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Oregon

When accounts of Harvey Weinstein’s harassment emerged, they reminded me of vignettes from harassment videos made by professional human resources trainers in the 1980s and 1990s.

A female employee would be invited to some nonwork location on a professional pretext (here, Weinstein’s hotel suite). Then the man would proposition the...

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Three ways Trump's nuclear strategy misunderstands the mood in Iran

  • Written by Nancy Gallagher, Interim Director at the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM) and a Senior Research Scholar at the School of Public Policy, University of Maryland
imagePeople walk around the old main bazaar of Tehran, in Iran, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2017. AP Photo/Vahid Salemi

U.S. President Donald Trump has refused to tell Congress that the 2015 nuclear deal the Obama administration reached with Iran and five other world powers still serves U.S. national interests. This refusal, or decertification, went against top...

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One step at a time: Simple nudges can increase lifestyle physical activity

  • Written by Matthew Mclaughlin, Ph.D. Student, University of Newcastle
imageA man taking stairs at Washington-Dulles International Airport in 2013. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-NC-SA

You’ve heard this before, right? Physical activity is good for your heart, your overall health – and, believe it or not, even your bank account. While physical activity used to be unavoidable, over the years, those...

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World hunger is increasing thanks to wars and climate change

  • Written by Leah Samberg, Research Associate, Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota
imageSmallholder agriculture in southern Ethiopia. Smallholder farmers are particularly vulnerable to food insecurity.Leah Samberg

Around the globe, about 815 million people – 11 percent of the world’s population – went hungry in 2016, according to the latest data from the United Nations. This was the first increase in more than 15...

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Why hazing continues to be a rite of passage for some

  • Written by Hank Nuwer, Professor of Journalism, Franklin College
imageWhy does hazing happen?Roberto Herrera via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY

This fall has seen another tragic death due to hazing. Maxwell Gruver, an 18-year-old Phi Delta Theta pledge at Louisiana State University, died hours after participating in a mock quiz designed to get pledges disturbingly drunk – fast. Charges have been brought against 10...

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Why Harvey Weinstein can't redeem himself through charity alone

  • Written by Ted Lechterman, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society
imageFilmmaker Harvey Weinstein, shown attending a concert to raise money for the Robin Hood Foundation in 2013. Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP

As allegations of sexual harassment, abuse and rape topple his career and wipe out his clout, Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein is apparently trying to contain the blaze with generosity. So far, he isn’t...

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What the 'Fearless Girl' statue and Harvey Weinstein have in common

  • Written by Sarah Banet-Weiser, Vice Dean, Director of the School of Communication and Professor of Communication, University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

In March of this year, State Street Global Advisors unveiled the “Fearless Girl,” a statue of a little girl installed to face Wall Street’s famous “Charging Bull” statue. Her defiance was aimed at financial culture’s historical exclusion of women in the financial industry, especially in leadership positions.

In...

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Our calculator will guess how many healthy years of life you have left

  • Written by Jeyaraj Vadiveloo, Director of the Janet and Mark L. Goldenson Center for Actuarial Research, University of Connecticut
imageWe're living longer than ever. But how many of those years will we be healthy?Have a nice day photo/Shutterstock.com

As the old saying goes, the only things certain in life are death and taxes. While death is inevitable, the quality of life you experience until death is often within an individual’s control.

This is what our team at the...

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Just 120 days into his term, Ecuador's new president is already undoing his own party's legacy

  • Written by Soledad Stoessel, Postdoctoral Researcher, Latin American Political Processes., National University of La Plata

It may be a bit much to invoke Gustav Meyrink’s Golem – the indomitable clay creation that destroyed everything in its path, alive but soulless – but the lurching, paradoxical maneuvering of Ecuador’s president, Lenin Moreno, does lend itself to literary comparisons.

Moreno served as vice president for six years under Rafael...

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Cómo el nuevo presidente del Ecuador procura deshacer el legado del Correismo en solo 120 días

  • Written by Soledad Stoessel, Postdoctoral Researcher, Latin American Political Processes., National University of La Plata

Tal vez sea mucho compararlo con el Golem de Gustav Meyrink y la creación del rabino de Praga – una criatura de barro, indócil y destructora de todo lo que encontraba en su camino, con vida pero sin alma – pero el comportamiento actual de Lenin Moreno, el presidente del Ecuador, sí se da para metáforas...

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