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Reviving the war on drugs will further harm police-community relations

  • Written by Dean A. Dabney, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice & Criminology, Georgia State University
imageAn officer and his dog walk the halls at a school in Indianapolis.AP Photo/Michael Conroy

The United States has been waging a war on drugs for nearly 50 years.

Hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent on this long campaign to thwart the production, distribution, sale and use of illegal drugs. This sustained investment has resulted in millions...

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What marsupials taught us about embryo implantation could help women using IVF

  • Written by Oliver Griffith, Postdoctoral Associate in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
imageShe must have had a successful pregnancy.Ryan Snyder, CC BY

What do a swollen sprained ankle and a new pregnancy have in common? Believe it or not, they’re both closely tied to the body’s inflammation response.

Inflammation is usually the first reaction of the immune system to the presence of injury or infection. It’s characterized...

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To restore our soils, feed the microbes

  • Written by Matthew Wallenstein, Associate Professor and Director, Innovation Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Colorado State University
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Our soils are in trouble. Over the past century, we’ve abused them with plowing, tilling and too much fertilizer.

What many think of as “just dirt” is actually an incredibly complex mixture of rock-derived minerals, plant-derived organic matter, dissolved nutrients, gases and a rich food web of...

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The D.A.R.E. Sessions wants is better than D.A.R.E.

  • Written by Paul Boxer, Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University Newark
imageHas D.A.R.E. moved beyond the "just say no" days of the '80's and '90's?AP Photo/Nick Ut

Americans of a certain generation will remember this mantra from the 1980s: Just say no.

This simple phrase was the cornerstone of Nancy Reagan’s drug abuse awareness initiative, rolled out in response to perceptions of sharp increases in youth drug use...

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Trump's 'America first' strategy for NAFTA talks won't benefit US workers

  • Written by Robert A. Blecker, Professor of Economics, American University

The Trump administration is plowing ahead with plans to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Canada and Mexico, with talks set to begin on Aug. 16.

Having made restoring the United States’ manufacturing might a cornerstone of his “America first” nationalism, Trump seems to think that obtaining what he...

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Self-driving cars are coming – but are we ready?

  • Written by Johanna Zmud, Senior Research Scientist, Texas A&M Transportation Institute, Texas A&M University
imageHow will we react when cars start driving themselves?Patramansky Oleg/Shutterstock.com

It’s been 60 years since the cover of Popular Mechanics magazine gave us the promise of flying cars. But our personal mobility options remain, today and for the foreseeable future, earthbound. Will the promise of self-driving cars be as elusive? In short,...

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When the federal budget funds scientific research, it's the economy that benefits

  • Written by Christopher Keane, Vice President for Research and Professor of Physics, Washington State University
imageImpacts of federal research funding can be felt region-wide.f11photo/Shutterstock.com

Emergency: You need more disposable diapers, right away. You hop into your car and trust your ride will be a safe one. Thanks to your phone’s GPS and the microchips that run it, you map out how to get to the store fast. Once there, the barcode on the package...

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George Romero's zombies will make Americans reflect on racial violence long after his death

  • Written by Erin C. Cassese, Associate Professor of Political Science, West Virginia University
imageAnnual 2010 zombie march in Madrid, an homage to George A. Romero.AP Photo/Paul White

“What’s your zombie apocalypse survival plan?”

The question invites the liveliest discussions of the semester. I teach a course on social movements in fiction and film at West Virginia University, where I also conduct research on race and gender p...

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Do we have too many national monuments? 4 essential reads

  • Written by Jennifer Weeks, Editor, Environment and Energy, The Conversation
imageBrowns Canyon National Monument, Colorado.Bob Wick, BLM, CC BY

Editor’s note: The following is a roundup of archival stories.

Under an order from President Trump, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is reviewing the status of 27 national monuments that were designated or expanded by presidents as far back as Jan. 1, 1996, using authority under the...

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When Pat and Bob nearly saved health care reform: A lesson in Senatorial bedside manner

  • Written by Joseph J. Fins, E. William Davis Jr, MD Professor of Medical Ethics, Professor of Medicine and Chief, Division of Medical Ethics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University
imageSen. Robert Dole, Republican of Kansas, left, with Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Democrat of New York, on Capitol Hill in 1993.AP Photo/John Duricka

With Senator John McCain’s heroic return and Vice President Mike Pence’s tie-breaking vote on a health care bill July 25, Senate Republicans managed to cobble together 51 votes simply to...

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  4. Kris Kobach and Kansas' SAFE Act
  5. 100 years ago African-Americans marched down 5th Avenue to declare that black lives matter
  6. Stranded in our own communities: Transit deserts make it hard for people to find jobs and stay healthy
  7. The bigotry baked into welfare cuts
  8. Helping your student with disabilities prepare for the future
  9. Glioblastoma, a formidable foe, faces a 'reservoir of resilience' in McCain
  10. A philosopher argues why no one has the right to refuse services to LGBT people
  11. The hidden extra costs of living with a disability
  12. How public feuds on social media and reality TV play out​ in court
  13. Senate GOP opens health care debate. Now what?
  14. Learning disabilities do not define us
  15. How to succeed in college with a disability
  16. Hong Kong's democratic struggle and the rise of Chinese authoritarianism
  17. Do challenges make school seem impossible or worthwhile?
  18. What influences American giving?
  19. A bold, bipartisan plan to return the US to the vanguard of 21st-century technological innovation
  20. Biologics: The pricey drugs transforming medicine
  21. How killing the ACA could lead to more opioid deaths in West Virginia and other Trump states
  22. Fulfilling the promise of the Americans with Disabilities Act
  23. Venezuela's getting a new constitution whether the people want it or not
  24. History shows that stacking federal science advisory committees doesn't work
  25. How a job acquires a gender (and less authority if it's female)
  26. Mitch McConnell, the president's man in the Senate
  27. Why the Catholic Church bans gluten-free communion wafers
  28. Sharkathon 2017 is here: How to watch it like a scientist
  29. Who's avoiding sex, and why
  30. The Supreme Court made it harder for states to ban sex offenders from social media. Here’s why
  31. The Georgia peach may be vanishing, but its mythology is alive and well
  32. How some rich people are trying to dismantle inequality
  33. The Library of Congress opened its catalogs to the world. Here's why it matters
  34. Explaining the rise in hate crimes against Muslims in the US
  35. How Lula evolved from Brazil's top politician to its most notable convict
  36. Can Trump use the presidential pardon to thwart the Russia investigations?
  37. Why the US doesn't understand Chinese thought – and must
  38. Here's the three-pronged approach we're using in our own research to tackle the reproducibility issue
  39. Protecting your smartphone from voice impersonators
  40. How to make sure we all benefit when nonprofits patent technologies like CRISPR
  41. Dunkirk survivors’ terror didn’t end when they were rescued
  42. What's the deal with the debt ceiling? 5 questions answered
  43. Republicans fail on health care. Here's why the rest of Trump's agenda won't be 'so easy,' either
  44. Engaging Colombia's students may be key to long-term peace
  45. Human noise pollution is disrupting parks and wild places
  46. Why Trump's threat to slap tariffs on foreign steel is a bad idea
  47. Four charts that show who loses out if the White House cuts food stamps
  48. The real costs of cheap surveillance
  49. How the social gospel movement explains the roots of today's religious left
  50. Warnings on US cigarette packs not as effective as those in other countries