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In Central America, gangs like MS-13 are bad – but corrupt politicians may be worse

  • Written by Jose Miguel Cruz, Director of Research, Florida International University

Is Mara Salvatrucha, the Salvadoran youth gang menacing residents in some U.S. cities, really America’s public enemy number one?

After months of boasting that it would “destroy” MS-13, the Trump administration has now declared the group a top crime-fighting priority. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has instructed the...

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The IRS targeting scandal was fake, but IRS budget woes are a real problem

  • Written by Philip Hackney, James E. & Betty M. Phillips Professor of Law, Louisiana State University
imageMembers of the tea party movement seen rallying outside the Capitol in 2013. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

Conservatives have been seething since 2013 over what they say was an unfair and imbalanced effort by the IRS to scrutinize right-leaning organizations more closely than other groups seeking nonprofit status.

As a new report from the Treasury...

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Does regulating artificial intelligence save humanity or just stifle innovation?

  • Written by Jeremy Straub, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, North Dakota State University
imageShould robots and artificial intelligence face additional restrictions?maxuser/Shutterstock.com

Some people are afraid that heavily armed artificially intelligent robots might take over the world, enslaving humanity – or perhaps exterminating us. These people, including tech-industry billionaire Elon Musk and eminent physicist Stephen...

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Is local news on the cusp of a renaissance?

  • Written by Damian Radcliffe, Caroline S. Chambers Professor in Journalism, University of Oregon
imageBridget McPherson

It’s not an easy time to be a journalist in the United States. Since 2000, nearly half of newsroom jobs – more than 20,000 of them – have disappeared.

Rubbing salt into the wounds, CareerCast named “newspaper reporter” the worst of 200 jobs in 2016 for the third successive year. (Pest control worker...

Read more: Is local news on the cusp of a renaissance?

Breast cancer risk higher in western parts of time zones; is electric light to blame?

  • Written by Richard G. "Bugs" Stevens, Professor, School of Medicine, University of Connecticut
imageThere may be a very good reason for not wanting to get up in the morning when it's still dark.Ruigsantos/Shutterstock.com

The 2017 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded to three researchers “for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm.”

The circadian rhythm is an innate, approximately...

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Micro solutions for a macro problem: How marine algae could help feed the world

  • Written by William Moomaw, Professor Emeritus of International Environmental Policy, Tufts University
imageMicroalgae (shown here, _Haematococcus_) convert water and carbon dioxide to oxygen and nutritious biomass in the presence of light. Algaennovation, CC BY

Our planet faces a growing food crisis. According to the United Nations, more than 800 million people are regularly undernourished. By 2050, an additional 2 to 3 billion new guests will join the...

Read more: Micro solutions for a macro problem: How marine algae could help feed the world

In defense of cash: why we should bring back the $500 note and other big bills

  • Written by Jay L. Zagorsky, Economist and Research Scientist, The Ohio State University
imageThe 'war on cash' is slowly eliminating paper currency. Thanatos Media/Shutterstock.com

A world without cash seems wonderful at first glance since it is convenient and fast. You don’t need to withdraw dollars or euros ahead of time. You don’t have to worry about money being lost or stolen. Paying for things with your phone is a breeze.

Ma...

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Why bystanders rarely speak up when they witness sexual harassment

  • Written by George B. Cunningham, Professor of Sport Management, Faculty Affiliate of the Women's and Gender Studies Program, and Director, Laboratory for Diversity in Sport, Texas A&M University
imageIf you see something, say something. Photographee.eu

The uproar over allegations that Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein sexually abused and harassed dozens of the women he worked with is inspiring countless women (and some men) to share their own personal sexual harassment and assault stories.

With these issues trending on social media with the...

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How seeing problems in the brain makes stigma disappear

  • Written by David Rosenberg, Professor, Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Wayne State University
imageA pair of identical twins. The one on the right has OCD, while the one on the left does not.Brain Imaging Research Division, Wayne State University School of Medicine, CC BY-SA

As a psychiatrist, I find that one of the hardest parts of my job is telling parents and their children that they are not to blame for their illness.

Children with emotional...

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  8. Why the European Union's hands are tied over Catalonia
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  38. The pull of energy markets – and legal challenges – will blunt plans to roll back EPA carbon rules
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  42. Until youth soccer is fixed, US men's national team is destined to fail
  43. Why Trump's executive order may compound the health insurance industry's problems
  44. How to combat racial bias: Start in childhood
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