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Sexual harassment: 5 essential reads

  • Written by Danielle Douez, Associate Editor, Politics + Society, The Conversation
imageHarvey Weinstein in 2013.Chris Pizzello/Invision/APimage

Editor’s note: On Friday, Oct. 13, “Third Rail with OZY” will ask: Is sexual harassment inevitable in the workplace?

This roundup of stories from The Conversation archive explores sexual harassment.

1. Delayed disclosures

More women are stepping forward to share their experiences of...

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Sent to Haiti to keep the peace, departing UN troops leave a damaged nation in their wake

  • Written by Siobhán Wills, Professor of Law, University of Ulster

On Oct. 15, 2017, the United Nations will withdraw its peacekeeping troops from Haiti, ending its 13-year mission there.

One might expect mixed feelings about the soldiers’ departure. After all, since the arrival of the U.N. Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) in June 2004, after former President Jean-Bertrande Aristide was forced out...

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Until youth soccer is fixed, US men's national team is destined to fail

  • Written by Rick Eckstein, Professor of Sociology, Villanova University
imageDefender Matt Besler sits on the field after losing to Trinidad and Tobago in a 2018 World Cup qualifying match.Rebecca Blackwell/AP Photo

David beating Goliath is very exciting – unless you’re a fan of Goliath.

The United States has 330 million people and a massive youth soccer system, yet its men’s national soccer team just got...

Read more: Until youth soccer is fixed, US men's national team is destined to fail

Why Trump's executive order may compound the health insurance industry's problems

  • Written by J.B. Silvers, Professor of Health Finance, Weatherhead School of Management & School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University
imageUnraveling Obamacare will be easier than fixing the nation's insurance problems. AP Photo/Evan Vucci

President Donald Trump has issued the first of what promises to be a series of health insurance executive orders aimed at dismantling the Affordable Care Act.

It instructs the government to essentially exempt small businesses and potentially...

Read more: Why Trump's executive order may compound the health insurance industry's problems

How to combat racial bias: Start in childhood

  • Written by Gail Heyman, Professor of Psychology, University of California, San Diego
imageComputer training can decrease children's biases.Jeff Inglis, CC BY-ND

Racial bias can seem like an intractable problem. Psychologists and other social scientists have had difficulty finding effective ways to counter it – even among people who say they support a fairer, more egalitarian society. One likely reason for the difficulty is that...

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Trump administration's zeal to peel back regulations is leading us to another era of robber barons

  • Written by Jeremi Suri, Professor of History and Public Affairs, Mack Brown Distinguished Chair, University of Texas at Austin
imageEPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is an unabashed ally of the fossil fuels – industry his agency is supposed to regulate. AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar

The Trump administration has a clear economic objective: deregulate. Loosening regulations on industries, the White House believes, will lead to faster growth and more jobs. This is the stated reason f...

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In Mexico, undocumented migrants risk deportation to aid earthquake victims

  • Written by Luis Gómez Romero, Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Wollongong
imageUndocumented migrants are among those helping to rebuild the hardest-hit areas of Oaxaca state, where federal aid has been slow to trickle down.Presidencia de la República Mexicana CC-by-2.0, CC BY-SA

After two earthquakes that left more than 450 dead and 150,000 houses damaged, my home country of Mexico faces huge challenges in recovery.

Acc...

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Marketing a devastated Puerto Rico should not be the priority

  • Written by Carlos A Suárez Carrasquillo, Lecturer in Political Science, University of Florida

President Donald Trump’s recent visit to Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria added one more moment of infamy to Puerto Rico’s 119 years as a colonial territory.

Trump was taken to Muñoz Rivera, a middle-class neighborhood in Guaynabo. Most homes there are made of concrete and saw little impact from Hurricane Maria....

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In Las Vegas, excess and fantasy bleed into tragedy

  • Written by Mark Gottdiener, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
imageTourists play slot machines at the Paris Las Vegas hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.Jae C. Hong/AP Photo

In Sin City, people often do bad things to themselves.

Rather than deal with their lapses – moral, financial, marital – there’s a ready-made marketing slogan to fall back on: “What happens in Vegas stays in...

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How closing the door on the estate tax could reduce American giving

  • Written by Patrick Rooney, Executive Associate Dean for Academic Programs, Professor of Economics and Philanthropic Studies, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
imageTaxing inherited wealth builds in an incentive for the rich to give more and splurge less. 1000 Words/Shutterstock.com

Soon after the U.S. gained independence, Uncle Sam began to tax inherited wealth. These levies applied only intermittently, however, until 1916, when Congress and the Wilson administration established the modern estate tax in time...

Read more: How closing the door on the estate tax could reduce American giving

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