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Free-speech ruling won't help declining civil discourse

  • Written by Nancy Costello, Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Michigan State University
imageA Supreme Court ruling on free speech does nothing about toxic online discourse.Francesco Carta fotografo/Moment via Getty Images

A Supreme Court decision saying a school district could not punish a student for profane complaints made on a weekend and off school grounds will not stem the torrent of crude, disrespectful speech in American society.

In...

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What are tax havens? The answer explains why the G-7 effort to end them is unlikely to succeed

  • Written by Beverly Moran, Professor Emerita of Law, Vanderbilt University
imageNot all tax havens come with fancy resorts and sun-drenched beaches. Westend61/Getty Images

Close your eyes and imagine a tax haven. Does a Caribbean island come to mind? Sand, surf and thousands of post office boxes housing shell corporations?

Some tax havens, like the Cayman Islands or Bermuda, fit that description. Many others do not.

The key to...

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What today's GOP demonstrates about the dangers of partisan conformity

  • Written by Robert B. Talisse, W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
imageRep. Liz Cheney talks to reporters after House Republicans voted to remove her as conference chair on May 12, 2021, in Washington, D.C. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Directly following the 2020 election, Republicans seemed to be through with Donald Trump. Party leaders stopped speaking to him and voters began abandoning the GOP, apparently in...

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Youth sports and other challenges of a nonbinary world: 3 essential reads

  • Written by Nick Lehr, Arts + Culture Editor
imageThe issue of trans rights was bound to butt up against realms of American society separated by gender.Jon Cartwright/Getty Images

While recognition and acceptance of people who don’t identify as strictly male or female is growing, many aspects of American society, from language to sports to fashion, remain structured or separated by gender.

So...

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Closures of Black K-12 schools across the nation threaten neighborhood stability

  • Written by Jerome Morris, Professor of Urban Education, University of Missouri-St. Louis
imageA June 2021 protest to keep Dunbar Elementary School in St. Louis from becoming a virtual-only school.Tenille Rose Martin, CC BY-NC-ND

Residents of the St. Louis neighborhood known as The Ville have been fighting for years to stop the closing of Charles H. Sumner High School, the oldest historically Black high school west of the Mississippi River.

Su...

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Tour de France: How many calories will the winner burn?

  • Written by John Eric Goff, Professor of Physics, University of Lynchburg
imageTour de France riders have to eat constantly to replenish the energy they burn. Filip Bossuyt/Flickr, CC BY-NDimageCC-BY-ND.

Imagine you begin pedaling from the start of Stage 17 of this year’s Tour de France. First, you would bike approximately 70 miles (112 km) with a gradual increase in elevation of around 1,300 feet (400 m). But you’ve...

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Research that shines light on how cells recover from threats may lead to new insights into Alzheimer's and ALS

  • Written by Brian Andrew Maxwell, Scientist in Cell Biology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
imageUbiquitin tags in cells serve different functions depending on stress conditions.Michael Hughes, CC BY-ND

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.

The big idea

Our bodies contain a special protein tag that plays a role in how cells recover from specific threats to their survival, according to new research I co-authored....

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Schools must act carefully on students' off-campus speech, Supreme Court rules

  • Written by Katy Harriger, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Wake Forest University
imageThe Supreme Court ruled that a school could not punish a student for a profane Snapchat post made off campus.Eshma/iStock / Getty Images Plus

For decades, U.S. courts have ruled that public school students “do not shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech and expression at the schoolhouse gate,” as the Supreme Court said in...

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Why it's such a big deal that the NFL's Carl Nassib came out as gay

  • Written by John Affleck, Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society, Penn State
imageAfter Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib came out as gay, his jersey became a top-seller on Fanatics, an online retailer of sportswear.Ethan Miller/Getty Images

The video was short and simple, but for America’s gay community it was a blockbuster event.

In an Instagram post, Las Vegas Raiders defensive lineman Carl Nassib announced...

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Conversion therapy is discredited and increases risk of suicide -- yet fewer than half of US states have bans in place

  • Written by Donna Sheperis, Professor of Counseling, Palo Alto University
imageGov. Andy Beshear is in favor of making Kentucky the 21st state to ban conversion therapy.AP Photo/Bryan Woolston

Pride Month is being marked by some lawmakers in Kentucky with a renewed push to ban “conversion therapy – the discredited practice of trying to change someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity.

If successful, th...

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