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Venezuela's opposition is on the verge of collapse

  • Written by Marco Aponte-Moreno, Assistant Professor of Global Business, St Mary's College of California

It’s been a bittersweet couple of weeks for the Venezuelan opposition, which for six months this year staged daily protests against the authoritarian-leaning regime of president Nicolás Maduro.

On Oct. 26, the alliance – which began working together in 2008 to counterbalance Hugo Chávez’s “Chavista”...

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Stop doing companies' digital busywork for free

  • Written by Jordan Kraemer, Visiting Scholar in Anthropology, New York University
imageHow much time and energy do people spend rating, reviewing and answering surveys?Ditty_about_summer/Shutterstock.com

Over the past year, I stopped responding to customer surveys, providing user feedback or, mostly, contributing product reviews. Sometimes I feel obligated – even eager – to provide this information. Who doesn’t like...

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How donors can help make nonprofits more accountable

  • Written by Aseem Prakash, Walker Family Professor and Founding Director, Center for Environmental Politics, University of Washington
imageWasteful and fake charities are usually harder to spot than this. jefftakespics2/Shutterstock.com

As the devastating 2017 hurricane season got underway, the Internal Revenue Service warned Americans to watch out for scammers asking for donations to nonexistent charities.

But, especially as fundraising pitches pile up in their inboxes and mailboxes...

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US shouldn't give up benefits of 'green card lottery' over low risk of terrorism

  • Written by Ethan Lewis, Associate Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College
imageThe Statue of Liberty casts a wary eye at the bike path that runs along the western edge of Manhattan, where the Oct. 31 attack occurred. Songquan Deng/Shutterstock.com

After a man barreled down a New York City bike path on Oct. 31, killing eight, President Donald Trump reacted by calling for an end to the “green card lottery” program...

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What draws 'lone wolves' to the Islamic State?

  • Written by James L. Gelvin, Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, University of California, Los Angeles
imagePolice work near a damaged Home Depot truck on Nov. 1, 2017, after a motorist drove onto a bike path near the World Trade Center memorial. AP Photo/Andres Kudacki

The recent attack on a bike path in lower Manhattan once again compels us to ask: Why do people pledge allegiance to the Islamic State?

Sayfullo Saipov, the suspect in the attack, isn&rsquo...

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After months of feuding, Ecuador's president is ousted by his party

  • Written by Soledad Stoessel, Postdoctoral Researcher, Latin American Political Processes, National University of La Plata

After months of internal dissent and public feuding, Ecuador’s president, Lenin Moreno, has been kicked out of his party, the Alianza Pais. He will remain in office, though, and the decision – technically justified by Moreno’s absence from several meetings – is being hotly contested within the party.

Moreno served as vice...

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What ancient cultures teach us about grief, mourning and continuity of life

  • Written by Daniel Wojcik, Professor, English and Folklore Studies, University of Oregon, University of Oregon

Surprise! How Obamacare is beginning to look a lot like Medicaid

  • Written by J.B. Silvers, Professor of Health Finance, Weatherhead School of Management & School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University
imageA computer screen showing the Healthcare.gov website for this year's open enrollment.AP Photo/Alex Brandon

In a great irony, the Republicans, who promised to eliminate the Affordable Care Act and roll back Medicaid expansions, are in essence about to do the reverse – at a huge cost to the U.S. Treasury. This year Obamacare will become what...

Read more: Surprise! How Obamacare is beginning to look a lot like Medicaid

Guyana, one of South America's poorest countries, struck oil. Will it go boom or bust?

  • Written by Anthony T. Bryan, Professor of International Relations, The University of the West Indies: St. Augustine Campus

Today, Guyana is one of South America’s poorest countries, with an average per capita annual income of around US$4,000.

But within the decade, it could be among the richest. In 2015, ExxonMobil and its international partners discovered vast oil reserves off the Caribbean coast of this small country. By 2018, five new wells will be pumping out...

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Why tax cuts make us less happy

  • Written by Michael Krassa, Chair, Human Dimensions of Environmental Systems and Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
imageWhy so grim? Oh, tax cuts. AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais

Republicans recently announced their tax plan and are hoping to turn it into law before Thanksgiving. While details are in flux, it would likely eliminate the estate tax, lower the top marginal rate and slash corporate rates, producing, in sum, what the president has dubbed a “gigan...

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  2. In scandal after scandal, NCAA takes fall for complicit colleges
  3. Real security requires strong encryption – even if investigators get blocked
  4. California's higher education: From American dream to dilemma
  5. Imagining the 'California Dream'
  6. What public transit can learn from Uber and Lyft
  7. After tax cuts derailed the 'California dream,' is the state getting back on track?
  8. Synthetic sex in yeast promises safer medicines for people
  9. What Chinese philosophers can teach us about dealing with our own grief
  10. How Lincoln's embrace of embalming birthed the American funeral industry
  11. How has air quality been affected by the US fracking boom?
  12. How has the US fracking boom affected air pollution in shale areas?
  13. What the charges against Manafort, Gates and Papadopoulos could mean for Trump
  14. Will wildfires leave lasting economic scars on California's vital wine country?
  15. How the dead danced with the living in medieval society
  16. Measuring the implicit biases we may not even be aware we have
  17. The misguided campaign to remove a Thomas Hart Benton mural
  18. Why it's time to lay the stereotype of the 'teen brain' to rest
  19. Don't rely on China: North Korea won't kowtow to Beijing
  20. Will the iPhone X be a hit beyond Apple diehards? 3 questions answered
  21. What works in workplace giving
  22. Life after death: Americans are embracing new ways to leave their remains
  23. Understanding Chinese President Xi’s anti-corruption campaign
  24. Want to prevent sexual harassment and assault? Start by teaching kids
  25. Will the AI jobs revolution bring about human revolt, too?
  26. Why were California's wine country fires so destructive?
  27. Soy bibliotecaria en Puerto Rico y sobreviví al Huracán María. Esta es mi historia.
  28. I'm a librarian in Puerto Rico, and this is my Hurricane Maria survival story
  29. The science of fright: Why we love to be scared
  30. Why Puerto Rico 'doesn't count' to the US government
  31. How the US tax code bypasses women entrepreneurs
  32. How the god you worship influences the ghosts you see
  33. Tricking and treating has a history
  34. How I discovered a wellspring of sexual harassment complaints
  35. Don't blame California wildfires on a 'perfect storm' of weather events
  36. Is it time for a Cyber Peace Corps?
  37. Dark matter: The mystery substance physics still can't identify that makes up the majority of our universe
  38. Martin Luther's spiritual practice was key to the success of the Reformation
  39. Why aren't we curing the world's most curable diseases?
  40. For cattle farmers in the Brazilian Amazon, money can't buy happiness
  41. The best way to deal with failure
  42. Will anyone protect the Rohingya?
  43. It's not just O'Reilly and Weinstein: Sexual violence is a 'global pandemic'
  44. The mental health toll of Puerto Rico's prolonged power outages
  45. Cosmic alchemy: Colliding neutron stars show us how the universe creates gold
  46. How companies can learn to root out sexual harassment
  47. California needs to rethink urban fire risk after wine country tragedy
  48. A new clue into treatments for triple negative breast cancer, a mean disease
  49. Rebooting the mathematics behind gerrymandering
  50. Is @realDonaldTrump addicted to Twitter?