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How the Jim Crow internet is pushing back against Black Lives Matter

  • Written by Nicholas D. Mirzoeff, Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
imageA still image captured from a video from the Tulsa Police Department shows Terence Crutcher with his hands in the air. Tulsa Police Department Handout via REUTERS

Police killings of African-Americans on social media have become the visual hallmark of our time. This decade will be recalled through blurry cellphone and dash-cam videos of shootings....

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Trump and Clinton debate strategies that can make anyone a better public speaker

  • Written by Gleb Tsipursky, Professor in History of Behavioral Science, President of Intentional Insights, The Ohio State University

Public speaking is an anxiety-inducing task for most us, yet it’s also a necessary one, whether you’re a corporate CEO, a high school teacher or a presidential candidate. And like the rest of us, candidates stumble when speaking in public.

Donald Trump’s tendency to speak off the cuff, for example, has long rattled his campaign...

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Five key debate moments that altered the course of a presidential race

  • Written by Robert Speel, Associate Professor of Political Science, Pennsylvania State University

Every presidential election year in my American Political Campaigns and Elections course, I get an opportunity to spend a full lecture discussing with students some of the famous moments from historic presidential debates.

I explain to students that while the presidential candidate debates are supposed to be about presenting policy alternatives to...

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Public universities are under threat – not just by outside reformers

  • Written by Brendan Cantwell, Assistant Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education, Michigan State University
imageWhat are threats facing America's public universities?Matthew Ephraim, CC BY-NC

A new documentary, “Starving the Beast,” recently examined the state of public higher education. Directed by Austin-based award-winning documentarian Steve Mims, the film argues that a network of right-wing think tanks and educational reformers are...

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Can public transit and ride-share companies get along?

  • Written by Kyle Shelton, Program Manager and Fellow, Kinder Institute for Urban Research, Rice University
imageWho's in the driver's seat?Matthew Jude Brown, Alexander Torrenegra, CC BY-SA

In Centennial, Colorado and Altamonte Springs, Florida, residents and visitors can now get a free ride to the nearest train station. The ride is paid for by the local public transit agency, but it’s not a public bus that makes the trip. Rather, it’s a car...

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How do antibiotic-resistant bacteria get into the environment?

  • Written by Suzanne Young, Ph.D. student, University of South Florida

Antibiotic resistance is a growing public health problem. The United Nations recently acknowledged this as “one of the biggest threats to modern medicine,” dedicating a high-level meeting to the issue at the 2016 General Assembly.

In the U.S. at least two million people are infected with antibiotic resistant bacteria and 23,000 die each...

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Is Philippine President Duterte a threat to the peace in Southeast Asia?

  • Written by John Ciorciari, Associate Professor of Public Policy, University of Michigan

U.S. efforts to promote peace and stability in the South China Sea are facing a new challenge. This time, the difficulty comes not from China but from the leader of a U.S. treaty ally – President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines.

In recent weeks, the U.S.-Philippine alliance has come under strain as Duterte has rebuked the United States and...

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Feds: We can read all your email, and you'll never know

  • Written by Clark D. Cunningham, W. Lee Burge Chair in Law & Ethics; Director, National Institute for Teaching Ethics & Professionalism, Georgia State University
imageThe feds say they can secretly read all your email.FBI agent with computer via shutterstock.com

Fear of hackers reading private emails in cloud-based systems like Microsoft Outlook, Gmail or Yahoo has recently sent regular people and public officials scrambling to delete entire accounts full of messages dating back years. What we don’t expect...

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The NFL joins the data revolution in sports

  • Written by Galen Clavio, Associate Professor of Sports Media; Director of the National Sports Journalism Center, Indiana University, Bloomington
imageThe NFL joins the Age of Metrics.Chart with field via shutterstock.com

In some potentially game-changing news for the way we understand professional football, the National Football League began the 2016 preseason by placing tracking sensors in its footballs for the first time. The chips are also in balls used in Thursday night games.

Over the past...

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Refugees, migration addressed in first-time UN summit: What was accomplished?

  • Written by Jeffrey H. Cohen, Professor of Anthropology, The Ohio State University

This week the United Nations General Assembly held the first-ever Summit for Refugees and Migrants.

According to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the summit represented “a watershed moment to strengthen governance of international migration and a unique opportunity for creating a more responsible, predictable system for responding to large...

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