The Conversation

How can we better protect crowds from terrorism?

Written by Robert Friedmann, Founding Director, Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange (GILEE) and Professor Emeritus of Criminal Justice, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University

It's almost impossible to adequately protect soft targets like public gatherings. 'Crowd' via www.shutterstock.com

If it seems like every week, there’s another terrorist attack – well, you’re not wrong. According to one crowdsourcing map, there have been over 500 attacks around the world since the start of 2017, with over 3,500...

Should we put juveniles away for life? Meet the teen who sparked a debate

Written by Dan Birman, Professor of Professional Practice, University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

Cyntoia after guilty verdictBirman Productions, CC BY

Inside the Juvenile Justice Center in Nashville, Tennessee is a steel door fitted with a high-security system. Push a button and the door unlocks, revealing another steel door with a slot for IDs. When that door buzzes, I walk through with video gear. I’m searched, as is the gear. An hour...

How math education can catch up to the 21st century

Written by Mary E. Pilgrim, Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education, Colorado State University

A student in Cape Coast solves a math problem.World Bank/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

In 1939, the fictional professor J. Abner Pediwell published a curious book called “The Saber-Tooth Curriculum.”

Through a series of satirical lectures, Pediwell (or the actual author, education professor Harold R. W. Benjamin) describes a Paleolithic curriculum...

What Trump’s education budget could mean for students in poverty

Written by Komla Dzigbede, Assistant Professor of Public Administration, Binghamton University, State University of New York

Cuts to the 2018 federal education budget jeopardize access for students from low-income families.Mattomedia Werbeagentur / Shutterstock.com

Dubbed “A New Foundation for American Greatness,” President Donald Trump’s budget proposal for 2018 seeks to achieve faster economic growth and debt reduction. But only US$59 billion of that...

Hillary Clinton is starting a social welfare group. What does that mean?

Written by Roger Colinvaux, Director, Law and Public Policy Program and Professor of Law, Catholic University of America

Some nonprofits, including the NAACP, can operate different divisions subject to different IRS rules but with the same branding.AP Photo/Andrew Harnik

Hillary Clinton recently announced that she was setting up a new group called Onward Together, offering few details other than that it will support an array of progressive causes, such as Swing Left,...

The end of America's global leadership?

Written by Simon Reich, Professor in The Division of Global Affairs and The Department of Political Science, Rutgers University Newark

American presidents in recent decades have spent a great deal of time proclaiming U.S. leadership of the global system. The decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement undermines much of what they have said. For any student of global politics, it represents a watershed moment when it comes to debating America’s role in the world.

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Are we overreacting to US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on climate?

Written by Nives Dolsak, Professor of Environmental Policy, University of Washington

There's strong support for wind power, which aids in addressing climate change, in Kansas and other red states for economic reasons. AP Photo/Charlie Riedel

The Trump administration has announced the U.S. will withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change. Should we expect any substantive effect on global climate efforts or changes to...

How bad could Trump's Paris Agreement withdrawal be? A scientist's perspective

Written by Robert Kopp, Professor, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, and Director, Coastal Climate Risk & Resilience Initiative, Rutgers University

The U.S. failing to meet its Paris commitment would cause about $100 billion of damage to the global economy.Cammie Czuchnicki/shutterstcok.com

Even before the Paris Agreement was signed in December 2015, market forces and policy measures were starting to tilt the world toward a lower-carbon future. U.S. carbon dioxide emissions peaked in 2007, and...

Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris accord cedes global leadership to China

Written by Wanyun Shao, Assistant Professor of Geography, Auburn University

Solar generation in Golmud, China.Vinaykumar8687/Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

President Trump has made clear through executive orders and appointments that he does not care much about climate change in particular or environmental protection in general. Trump’s announcement that the United States will withdraw from the Paris climate agreement shows...

Why Trump's decision to leave Paris accord hurts the US and the world

Written by Travis N. Rieder, Research Scholar at the Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University

Editor’s note: President Donald Trump stunned the world on June 1 by announcing his intention to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord, a landmark global agreement to lower greenhouse gas emissions and minimize the harm from climate change. We’ve assembled a panel of academics and scientists to analyze what this...