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To Uber or not? Why car ownership may no longer be a good deal

  • Written by F. Todd Davidson, Research Associate, Energy Institute, University of Texas at Austin
imageYounger Americans tend to be comfortable relying on ride services and foregoing car ownership. BeyondDC, CC BY-NC-ND

Every day there’s more news about the inevitable arrival of autonomous vehicles. At the same time, more people are using ride-hailing and ride-sharing apps, and the percentage of teens getting their driver’s license contin...

Read more: To Uber or not? Why car ownership may no longer be a good deal

Ancient Greek wisdom for today’s leadership crisis

  • Written by Emily Anhalt, Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures, Sarah Lawrence College

What makes a good leader?

This question confronts us at every election and with every domestic and international policy decision. As a professor of classical languages and literature for more than 30 years, I marvel at our insistence on addressing this question as if it were brand new.

Centuries ago, myths helped the Greeks learn to reject...

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Why are Russian media outlets hyping the Mueller investigation?

  • Written by Cynthia Hooper, Associate Professor of History, College of the Holy Cross
imageIt seems that Russian state media is starting to chip away at Trump's burnished image.Maxim Apryatin

Four major Russia investigations are underway in Washington, along with at least six related federal inquiries.

Anxiety currently swirls around the Kremlin’s manipulation of popular social media platforms Facebook, YouTube and Instagram....

Read more: Why are Russian media outlets hyping the Mueller investigation?

Need another reason to help Puerto Rico? It's a key US economic and military asset

  • Written by Lilian Bobea, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Bentley University

Three weeks after Hurricane Maria ripped through Puerto Rico, half of the population still lacks fresh water and medicine, and almost 80 percent doesn’t have electricity. The scarce resources arriving from international private sources are quickly running out. Satellite communication remains limited.

Despite this crisis, President Donald...

Read more: Need another reason to help Puerto Rico? It's a key US economic and military asset

The pull of energy markets – and legal challenges – will blunt plans to roll back EPA carbon rules

  • Written by Hari Osofsky, Dean, Distinguished Professor of Law, Professor of International Affairs, Professor of Geography, Pennsylvania State University
imageGrid operators set the prices for energy markets and are structured to take the lowest prices – a disadvantage for coal and nuclear power.CC BY

On Oct. 10, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt formally announced a repeal of the Clean Power Plan, regulation intended to curb greenhouse gas emissions from existing coal- and natural gas-fired power...

Read more: The pull of energy markets – and legal challenges – will blunt plans to roll back EPA carbon rules

Under the Trump administration, US airstrikes are killing more civilians

  • Written by Steven Feldstein, Frank and Bethine Church Chair of Public Affairs & Associate Professor, School of Public Service, Boise State University
imageSmoke from an airstrike rises in the background as a man flees during fighting between Iraqi special forces and IS militants in Mosul, Iraq, on May 17, 2017. AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo

When President Donald Trump took office in January, it was unclear whether the bombast from his campaign would translate into an aggressive new strategy against...

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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...

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

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

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  1. How to combat racial bias: Start in childhood
  2. Trump administration's zeal to peel back regulations is leading us to another era of robber barons
  3. In Mexico, undocumented migrants risk deportation to aid earthquake victims
  4. Marketing a devastated Puerto Rico should not be the priority
  5. In Las Vegas, excess and fantasy bleed into tragedy
  6. How closing the door on the estate tax could reduce American giving
  7. Can you be hacked by the world around you?
  8. How a growing Christian movement is seeking to change America
  9. How to ensure the fourth industrial revolution is 'Made in the USA'
  10. Do people like government 'nudges'? Study says: Yes
  11. How Obamacare has helped poor cancer patients
  12. Marie Curie and her X-ray vehicles' contribution to World War I battlefield medicine
  13. Coastal protection on the edge: The challenge of preserving California's legacy
  14. Gentrification? Bring it
  15. In Latin America, is there a link between abortion rights and democracy?
  16. Trump's policies will harm coal-dependent communities instead of helping them
  17. What hundreds of American public libraries owe to Carnegie's disdain for inherited wealth
  18. How the stoicism of Roman philosophers can help us deal with depression
  19. Nobody reads privacy policies – here's how to fix that
  20. Why having the sex talk early and often with your kids is good for them
  21. How the US government created and coddled the gun industry
  22. Economist who helped behavioral 'nudges' go mainstream wins Nobel
  23. Why would the Trump administration ban travel from Chad?
  24. Why Rick Perry's proposed subsidies for coal fail Economics 101
  25. For Native Americans, a river is more than a 'person,' it is also a sacred place
  26. Indigenous people invented the so-called 'American Dream'
  27. What makes American society so violent? 4 essential reads
  28. The 'inevitable sadness' of Kazuo Ishiguro's fiction
  29. How Columbus, of all people, became a national symbol
  30. Why the Nobel Peace Prize brings little peace
  31. Bundy trial embodies everything dividing America today
  32. Are self-driving cars the future of mobility for disabled people?
  33. Urban noise pollution is worst in poor and minority neighborhoods and segregated cities
  34. Blade Runner's chillingly prescient vision of the future
  35. Knowing the signs of Lewy body dementia may help speed diagnosis
  36. Should Uncle Sam 'send in the Marines' after hurricanes?
  37. Catalonia's referendum unmasks authoritarianism in Spain
  38. The opioid epidemic in 6 charts
  39. How the Chinese cyberthreat has evolved
  40. How 'Germany's Hugh Hefner' created an entirely different sort of sex empire
  41. Chilled proteins and 3-D images: The cryo-electron microscopy technology that just won a Nobel Prize
  42. Do tax cuts stimulate the economy more than spending?
  43. The enduring power of print for learning in a digital world
  44. I've spent years looking at what was actually in Playboy, and it wasn't just objectification of women
  45. How inherited fitness may affect breast cancer risk
  46. Why people around the world fear climate change more than Americans do
  47. How fair is it for just three people to receive the Nobel Prize in physics?
  48. After a disaster, contaminated floodwater can pose a threat for months to come
  49. Scientists join forces to save Puerto Rico's 'Monkey Island'
  50. Governments, car companies must resolve their competing goals for self-driving cars