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Mine wars: The struggle for coal miners' health care and pension benefits comes to a head

  • Written by Simon Haeder, Assistant Professor of Political Science, West Virginia University
imageUnited Mine Workers members rally in September on Capitol Hill for benefits for retired miners that are at risk.Jose Louis Magana/AP

During the 2016 presidential campaign, then-candidate Trump repeatedly expressed his support for coal miners and their communities. Voters in the country’s old mining regions of Appalachia rewarded these...

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To have impact, the People's Climate March needs to reach beyond activists

  • Written by Jill Hopke, Assistant Professor of Journalism, DePaul University
imageThe 2014 People's Climate March in New York City.Annette Bernhardt/flickr, CC BY-NC-SA

Following closely on last week’s March for Science, activists are preparing for the People’s Climate March on Saturday, April 29. This event will mark President Donald Trump’s 100th day in office, and comes as the Trump administration is...

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100 days of presidential threats

  • Written by Jennifer Mercieca, Associate Professor of Communication and Director of the Aggie Agora, Texas A&M University
imageTrump points a finger.AP Photo/Andrew Harnik

President Donald Trump threatens people a lot. He menaces, he bullies and then he explains his words away.

As a scholar of American political rhetoric, I have paid close attention to Trump’s use of words. In particular, I’ve focused on something called ad baculum – or threats. Ad baculum...

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Syria’s forgotten pluralism and why it matters today

  • Written by Andrea Williams, Director, International Studies, Colorado State University
imageSyrian Christians and Muslims offer prayers for nuns held by rebels, at the Greek Orthodox Mariamiya Church in Damascus, Syria, in 2013.AP Photo

The Syrian Civil War has been raging for six years. It has killed nearly half a million people and left over 12 million, about half of Syria’s total population, without a home. A few weeks ago, a deva...

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'Anumeric' people: What happens when a language has no words for numbers?

  • Written by Caleb Everett, Andrew Carnegie Fellow, Professor of Anthropology, University of Miami
imageA Pirahã family.Caleb Everett, CC BY-SA

Numbers do not exist in all cultures. There are numberless hunter-gatherers embedded deep in Amazonia, living along branches of the world’s largest river tree. Instead of using words for precise quantities, these people rely exclusively on terms analogous to “a few” or...

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Can Bill Nye – or any other science show – really save the world?

  • Written by Heather Akin, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania
imageWill Bill Nye's new show find a wider audience than Neil deGrasse Tyson's 'Cosmos' did?Vince Bucci/Invision for the Television Academy/AP Images

Netflix’s new talk show, “Bill Nye Saves the World,” debuted the night before people around the world joined together to demonstrate and March for Science. Many have lauded the timing and...

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Cutting EPA budget puts babies at risk – and makes little economic sense

  • Written by Patricia Smith, Professor of Economics, University of Michigan

President Donald Trump recently ordered an air strike on Syria, fueled in part by moral outrage at images of babies being injured and killed by airborne toxins.

American babies are under threat as well. In this case, the culprit is the Trump administration’s proposal to slash the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget by 31 percent,...

Read more: Cutting EPA budget puts babies at risk – and makes little economic sense

Police around the world learn to fight global-scale cybercrime

  • Written by Frank J. Cilluffo, Director, Center for Cyber and Homeland Security, George Washington University
imagePolice must join forces across international borders to take on modern cybercriminals.wutzkohphoto/Shutterstock.com

From 2009 to 2016, a cybercrime network called Avalanche grew into one of the world’s most sophisticated criminal syndicates. It resembled an international conglomerate, staffed by corporate executives, advertising salespeople...

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Confused about Trump's border wall?: 7 essential reads

  • Written by Bryan Keogh, Editor, Economics and Business, The Conversation

Editor’s note: The following is a roundup of archival stories.

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump promised Mexico would pay for a border war separating it from the U.S.

With that unlikely anytime soon, the president has been demanding Congress include funding for his proposed barrier in the budget lawmakers are hastily trying to finish by...

Read more: Confused about Trump's border wall?: 7 essential reads

Why cuts in funding for UN, climate change research imperil fight against malaria

  • Written by Julio Frenk, President, University of Miami
imageMosquitoes could expand their reach if money for climate change research is cut. Centers for Disease Control.

Diseases don’t stop at borders. On World Malaria Day, this is especially important to understand and to consider.

We’ve been fighting malaria for decades, and yet it still claimed nearly half a million lives in 2015. About 70...

Read more: Why cuts in funding for UN, climate change research imperil fight against malaria

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