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Supreme Court strikes down California's nonprofit donor disclosure requirements: 4 questions answered

  • Written by Dana Brakman Reiser, Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
imageWho's giving to whom just became less transparent.crazydiva/iStock via Getty Images Plus

The Supreme Court tossed out a California law requiring nonprofits to report their major donors to state officials. In a 6-3 ruling, the court said the law, intended to fight fraud, subjected donors to potential harassment and violated their First Amendment...

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Supreme Court blunts voting rights in Arizona – and potentially nationwide – in controversial ruling

  • Written by Cornell William Clayton, C.O. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Washington State University
imageThe Supreme Court waited until the final day of its 2020-2021 term, July 1, 2021, to issue two controversial decisions, including one that may dramatically limit voting rights in the US.Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

Arizona may keep two voting laws that Republicans say protect election integrity and Democrats believe will make it harder for some...

Read more: Supreme Court blunts voting rights in Arizona – and potentially nationwide – in controversial ruling

Trump Organization indictment hints at downsides of having no independent oversight – unlike companies traded on Wall Street

  • Written by Bert Spector, Associate Professor of International Business and Strategy at the D'Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University
imageThe Trump Organization is run by Trump's children and loyalists like Allen Weisselberg, seen here in the background.AP Photo/Evan Vucci

A Manhattan grand jury on July 1, 2021, indicted the Trump Organization and one of its top executives, Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg, over his failure to pay taxes over 15 years. The company and...

Read more: Trump Organization indictment hints at downsides of having no independent oversight – unlike...

'Megadrought' along border strains US-Mexico water relations

  • Written by Robert Gabriel Varady, Research Professor of Environmental Policy, University of Arizona
imageLake Mead, which serves seven U.S. states and three Mexican states, is drying up.Ethan Miller/Getty Images

The United States and Mexico are tussling over their dwindling shared water supplies after years of unprecedented heat and insufficient rainfall.

imageThe Colorado River Basin.U.S. Geological Survey

Sustained drought on the middle-lower Rio Grande...

Read more: 'Megadrought' along border strains US-Mexico water relations

Infighting in the Southern Baptist Convention shouldn't be a surprise – the denomination has been defined by such squabbles for 400 years

  • Written by Susan M. Shaw, Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Oregon State University
imageEach local congregation of the Southern Baptist Convention is autonomous and self-governing. Disagreements take place frequently.Joe Raedle/Getty images

Concerned over the direction that some leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention have recently taken, a number of pastors in the denomination have formed the “Conservative Baptist Network.&r...

Read more: Infighting in the Southern Baptist Convention shouldn't be a surprise – the denomination has been...

A medical moonshot would help fix inequality in American health care

  • Written by Dana Goldman, Leonard D. Schaeffer Chair and Distinguished Professor of Public Policy, Pharmacy, and Economics, University of Southern California
imageMedical breakthroughs like the COVID-19 vaccines need to be matched with programs that tackle health inequality. John Cherry/Stringer via Getty

COVID-19 has put the American health care system’s deeply entrenched inequities into high relief. The social, economic and political structures that predated the pandemic’s public health crisis...

Read more: A medical moonshot would help fix inequality in American health care

Benjamin Franklin's fight against a deadly virus: Colonial America was divided over smallpox inoculation, but he championed science to skeptics

  • Written by Mark Canada, Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Indiana University Kokomo
imageAs a printer's apprentice in 1721, Franklin had a front-row seat to the controversy around a new prevention technique.ClassicStock/Archive Photos via Getty Images

Exactly 300 years ago, in 1721, Benjamin Franklin and his fellow American colonists faced a deadly smallpox outbreak. Their varying responses constitute an eerily prescient object lesson...

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What's a ghost kitchen? A food industry expert explains

  • Written by Jeffrey Miller, Associate Professor of Hospitality Management, Colorado State University
imageThe co-founder of a takeout business called The Bussdown plates a dish at the ghost kitchen he cooks out of in Oakland.Stephen Lam/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

While the phrase “ghost kitchen” may conjure up images of haunted houses, the reality is a bit more mundane.

Ghost kitchens are food prep operations with no...

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Racism lurks behind decisions to deny Black high school students from being recognized as the top in their class

  • Written by Jamel K. Donnor, Associate Professor of Education, William & Mary
imageWas 'white fragility' the reason behind two Black Mississippi high schoolers' losing their valedictorian/salutatorian status?Sue Barr/Getty Images

Two Black students – Ikeria Washington and Layla Temple – were named valedictorian and salutatorian at West Point High School in Mississippi in 2021. Shortly afterward, two white parents ques...

Read more: Racism lurks behind decisions to deny Black high school students from being recognized as the top...

Trustees' handling of Nikole Hannah-Jones' tenure application shows how university boards often fail the accountability test

  • Written by Felecia Commodore, Assistant Professor, Educational Foundations & Leadership, Old Dominion University
imageDemonstrators gather June 25, 2021, on University of North Carolina campus in Chapel Hill, N.C., to demand that the university offer tenure to award-winning investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones. AP Photo/Jonathan Drew

University boards of trustees hold considerable power over the institutions they govern, but get attention only when...

Read more: Trustees' handling of Nikole Hannah-Jones' tenure application shows how university boards often...

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