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How a group of California nuns challenged the Catholic Church

  • Written by Diane Winston, Associate Professor and Knight Center Chair in Media & Religion, University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
imageImmaculate Heart College Art Department c. 1955. Photograph by Fred Swartz. Image courtesy of the Corita Art Center, Immaculate Heart Community, Los Angeles.

California in the 1960s was the epicenter for spiritual experimentation. Indian gurus and New Age prophets, Jesus freaks and Scientologists all found followings in the Golden State.

But among...

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Venezuela's elections are just a new way for Maduro to cling to power

  • Written by Benigno Alarcón, Director of the Center for Political Studies, Andres Bello Catholic University (UCAB)

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Nicolás Maduro, president of crisis-stricken Venezuela, will run for reelection in Venezuela in 2018, Vice President Tarick Al Aisammi announced in a Nov. 29 press conference.

Just a few months ago, it would have seemed unlikely that the Maduro regime would opt for elections as a way to hold onto power. After three...

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Bajo Maduro, las elecciones venezolanas son otra forma de mantener el poder

  • Written by Benigno Alarcón, Director of the Center for Political Studies, Andres Bello Catholic University (UCAB)

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El Presidente venezolano, Nicolás Maduro, buscará reelección en 2018, según anunció Vice Presidente Tarick Al Aisammi el 29 de noviembre.

Hace unos meses atrás habría sido difícil predecir que el régimen de Maduro se animaría a emprender una secuencia de...

Read more: Bajo Maduro, las elecciones venezolanas son otra forma de mantener el poder

The obscure federal agency that soon could raise your electric bill: 5 questions answered on FERC

  • Written by Joshua D. Rhodes, Research Fellow of Energy, University of Texas at Austin
imageMaking sense of the Department of Energy's plan. Shutterstock.com

Editor’s note: On or before Dec. 11, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is expected to take action on a controversial proposal by Energy Secretary Rick Perry that seeks to prevent noncompetitive coal and nuclear power plants from retiring...

Read more: The obscure federal agency that soon could raise your electric bill: 5 questions answered on FERC

President Trump's national monument rollback is illegal and likely to be reversed in court

  • Written by Nicholas Bryner, Emmett/Frankel Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy, University of California, Los Angeles
imageSupporters of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments during a rally Saturday, Dec. 2, 2017 in Salt Lake City.AP Photo/Rick Bowmer

On Dec. 4, President Trump traveled to Utah to sign proclamations downsizing Bears Ears National Monument by 85 percent and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument by nearly 50 percent....

Read more: President Trump's national monument rollback is illegal and likely to be reversed in court

The constitutional right to education is long overdue

  • Written by Derek W. Black, Professor of Law, University of South Carolina
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Public school funding has shrunk over the past decade. School discipline rates reached historic highs. Large achievement gaps persist. And the overall performance of our nation’s students falls well below our international peers.

These bleak numbers beg the question: Don’t students have a constitutional...

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Why the president's anti-Muslim tweets could increase tensions

  • Written by Michael Pasek, NSF Graduate Research Fellow, Pennsylvania State University
imageAP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File

Last week, President Trump retweeted to his nearly 44 million followers a series of videos purporting to show Muslims assaulting people and destroying Christian statues. These videos, originally shared by an extremist anti-Muslim group in the U.K., were shown to be inaccurate and misleading.

In response to widespread...

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A new collaborative approach to investigate what happens in the brain when it makes a decision

  • Written by Anne Churchland, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
imageWhat's going on in there when you decide?Sergey Nivens/Shutterstock.com

Decisions span a vast range of complexity. There are really simple ones: Do I want an apple or a piece of cake with my lunch? Then there are much more complicated ones: Which car should I buy, or which career should I choose?

Neuroscientists like me have identified some of the...

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How the tax bill opens wide a big back door to overhaul health care

  • Written by Simon Haeder, Assistant Professor of Political Science, West Virginia University
imageSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in a Nov. 30, 2017 photo as he talked to small business owners about the tax bill. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

The U.S. Senate on Dec. 2 passed its version of one of the most sweeping tax reform bills on a party-line vote of 51-49. After reconciliation with a House version, the bill is expected to be passed...

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Turning hurricanes into music: Can listening to storms help us understand them better?

  • Written by Mark Ballora, Professor of Music Technology, Pennsylvania State University
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During the 2017 hurricane season, major storms in the North Atlantic devastated communities in and around Houston, Florida, Puerto Rico and the wider Caribbean.

The destruction shows how important it is to understand and communicate the serious threats that these storms pose. Scientists...

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