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'Moonlight' schooled Hollywood on race. Can it take on school discipline, too?

  • Written by Derek Black, Professor of Law, University of South Carolina
image2017's winner for Best Picture casts new light on the issue of school discipline reform.A24 Films

This year’s Academy Award winner for best picture tackles a difficult topic in the education world today: school discipline. In “Moonlight,” high school boys taunt the main character, Chiron, with homophobic slurs before beating him....

Read more: 'Moonlight' schooled Hollywood on race. Can it take on school discipline, too?

Four challenges for Moon Jae-in, South Korea's new president

  • Written by Markus Bell, Anthropologist and Lecturer in Korean and Japanese studies, University of Sheffield
imageSouth Korea's Moon Jae-in victorious on May 9, 2017.AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon

Democrat Moon Jae-in is the new president of South Korea.

Moon, a former special forces soldier turned human rights lawyer, won a snap election, following months of mass protests that ousted President Park Geun-hye last December.

The grace period for Moon will be short....

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To curb climate change, we need to protect and expand US forests

  • Written by William Moomaw, Professor Emeritus of International Environmental Policy, Tufts University
imageCypress swamp near Mandeville, Louisiana.Neal Wellons/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

Forests have been removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing carbon for more than 300 million years. When we cut down or burn trees and disturb forest soils, we release that stored carbon to the atmosphere. Since the start of the Industrial Revolution, one-third...

Read more: To curb climate change, we need to protect and expand US forests

How the refugee crisis is playing out on the German stage

  • Written by Emily Goodling, Ph.D. candidate in German Studies, Stanford University

Since 2015, over one million refugees have entered Germany. As a political event, the so-called refugee crisis continues to color public policy and political rhetoric in Germany and around the world.

Less well-known, however, is Germany’s artistic response to this crisis, especially on the stage.

Germany has a long history of political...

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Central American gangs like MS-13 were born out of failed anti-crime policies

  • Written by Jose Miguel Cruz, Director of Research, Florida International University
imageA Salvadoran man believed to be a member of the MS-13 gang as he is arrested.AP Photo/Josh Reynolds

The street gang Mara Salvatrucha 13, commonly known as MS-13, was born in the United States.

Despite what President Donald Trump and Attorney General Sessions have claimed, lax immigration policies are not what allowed MS-13 and other Central American...

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Iranian voters' economic gloom may doom President Rouhani's reelection bid

  • Written by Nader Habibi, Professor of the Economics of the Middle East at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University

Markets breathed a collective sigh of relief after Emmanuel Macron won the French presidency. But there’s another vote this month that’s just as consequential yet has received far less attention: Iran’s May 19 presidential election.

If the incumbent moderate Hassan Rouhani doesn’t win a second term, one of his conservative...

Read more: Iranian voters' economic gloom may doom President Rouhani's reelection bid

Throwing injuries in young baseball players: Is there something we are not considering?

  • Written by Jason Zaremski, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Florida
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Baseball marks the end of winter and the start of spring, and we as a nation delight in watching not only the pros but also our kids play this great game.

Unfortunately, we sports medicine doctors are seeing an increase in injuries to the throwing arm in youngsters, and many of these require surgery. Most worrisome is that...

Read more: Throwing injuries in young baseball players: Is there something we are not considering?

Brain-imaging modern people making Stone Age tools hints at evolution of human intelligence

  • Written by Shelby Putt, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Stone Age Institute and The Center for Research into the Anthropological Foundations of Technology, Indiana University
imageThe stone flakes are flying, but what brain regions are firing?Shelby S. Putt, CC BY-ND

How did humans get to be so smart, and when did this happen? To untangle this question, we need to know more about the intelligence of our human ancestors who lived 1.8 million years ago. It was at this point in time that a new type of stone tool hit the scene...

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In letters from Stalin's labor camps, a window into Soviet political oppression

  • Written by Emily Johnson, Associate Professor of Russian, University of Oklahoma
imageOver a period of 30 years, millions of criminals and political prisoners were sent to Soviet labor camps.Wikimedia Commons

In 2011, I was at the Hoover Institution Archives sifting through the papers of the Latvian poet and journalist Arsenii Formakov (1900-1983) when I noticed a folder of letters encased in clear plastic.

From the oval censorship...

Read more: In letters from Stalin's labor camps, a window into Soviet political oppression

People don’t trust scientific research when companies are involved

  • Written by John C. Besley, Associate Professor of Advertising and Public Relations, Michigan State University
imagePeople seem to think industry-funded research belongs in the garbage.mllejules/Shutterstock.com

A soda company sponsoring nutrition research. An oil conglomerate helping fund a climate-related research meeting. Does the public care who’s paying for science?

In a word, yes. When industry funds science, credibility suffers. And this does not...

Read more: People don’t trust scientific research when companies are involved

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