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More and more restaurants list calories on their menus. What about salt?

  • Written by Alyssa Moran, Sc.D. candidate in the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University
Do you know how much salt is in your food?Jorge Royan, CC BY-SA

Which do you think has more salt: a Panera Bread wild blueberry scone or a large order of Burger King french fries?

Starting May 5, restaurants and food stores across the U.S. were going to be required to include calorie counts on their menus. The Trump administration has delayed calorie...

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Rewriting NAFTA has serious implications beyond just trade

  • Written by Jessica Trisko Darden, Assistant Professor of International Affairs, American University School of International Service

President Donald J. Trump has called the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) our “worst trade deal.”

After flip-flopping between scrapping NAFTA altogether and saying that the agreement required only tweaks, President Trump is trying to force a renegotiation of a deal that supports three million American jobs.

While this may seem...

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How did health insurance get so complicated? Here are some answers

  • Written by J.B. Silvers, Professor of Health Finance, Case Western Reserve University
Rep. Fred Upton, left, (R-Mich.) and Rep. Greg Waldon (R-Ore.) outside the White House on May 3, 2017, after meeting with Pres. Trump to discuss the heath care law. Susan Walsh/AP

With the passage of the Republicans’ health care act, the House of Representatives seems to be saying that coming up with a plan to insure Americans really...

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The future is in interactive storytelling

  • Written by Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Professor of Computational Media, University of California, Santa Cruz
Seeking to make stories that surround us.'Screen,' by Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Robert Coover, Shawn Greenlee, Andrew McClain, and Ben "Sascha" Shine, CC BY-ND

Marvel’s new blockbuster, “Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2,” carries audiences through a narrative carefully curated by the film’s creators. That’s also what...

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How funding to house mentally ill, homeless is a financial gain, not drain

  • Written by Carol Caton, Professor of Sociomedical Sciences (Psychiatry and Public Health), Columbia University Medical Center
A director of a supportive housing center in Bronx, New York, talks with a resident and case worker in December 2015. Bebeto Matthews/AP

As Congress considers the federal budget proposal for fiscal year 2018 to reduce funding for services to poor and homeless Americans, programs with proven cost-effectiveness should not be on the chopping block....

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Anti-terror rules are blocking aid to conflict zones

  • Written by Sabith Khan, Visiting Researcher, Georgetown University
Rules imposed after the 9/11 attacks can obstruct aid to Somalia's internally displaced people.Omar Abdisalan/AMISOM Photo

The famines looming in countries like war-torn Yemen and Somalia and the conflicts entrenched in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere are making it hard for aid workers to reach everyone who desperately needs help. However, U.S....

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Heroes and American politics

  • Written by Bruce Peabody, Professor of American Politics, Fairleigh Dickinson University
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Who counts as a hero in the 21st century?

How is heroism adapting to an age of nonstop news, hyper-partisanship and intense political scrutiny?

Research I recently conducted with my colleague Krista Jenkins focuses on the evolving profile and significance of U.S. heroism over the past century.

After examining decades of survey...

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Helping student activists move past 'us vs. them'

  • Written by Steven Fesmire, Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies, Green Mountain College
High school and college students protested Trump's inauguration at Seattle Central College in January.AP Photo/Elaine Thompson

Protest turned violent on the Berkeley and Middlebury campuses; students shouted down speakers at MacMaster University and UCLA and blocked entry to a talk at Claremont McKenna: These are among the many recent incidents...

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Macron and LePen are battling for France’s heart and soul in election runoff

  • Written by Richard Fogarty, Professor of History, University at Albany, State University of New York

On April 24, the day after her second-place finish in the first round of the French presidential elections, Marine Le Pen thundered against her opponent, Emmanuel Macron, declaring, “Nothing in Monsieur Macron’s plan, nor anything in his behavior indicates the least evidence of love for France.”

She went on to invoke his supposed...

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