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Betsy DeVos' 6-month report card: More undoing than doing

  • Written by Dustin Hornbeck, Ph.D. Student in Educational Leadership and Policy, Miami University
imageBetsy Devos has been busy advancing a conservative education agenda since her confirmation earlier this year.AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin

Since the inauguration of Donald Trump, the news cycle has been dominated by stories of White House controversy: a travel ban, North Korea, health care and more.

Meanwhile, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has been...

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What to do with Confederate statues?

  • Written by James Glaser, Professor, Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences, Tufts University

Could Russia teach us something about how to deal with difficult aspects of our national history?

Many places in the South – from New Orleans to Louisville – are in the process of bringing down statues that glorify the Confederacy. That process raises questions about what to do with these remnants of the past. Do we just toss them into...

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Rise in globalism doesn't mean the end for nationalists

  • Written by A. Burcu Bayram, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Arkansas

Are you more of a nationalist or a cosmopolitan? Or both?

Recent events suggest that a nationalist backlash to globalization is on the rise. The United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union, Donald Trump’s win in the U.S. presidential election and the growing popularity of right-wing parties in France, Austria and Germany attest...

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The slippery slope of the oligarchy media model

  • Written by Rodney Benson, Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University

On July 28, Apple heiress Laurene Powell Jobs bought a majority stake in The Atlantic.

It’s the latest media purchase by the billionaire class, a group that includes Amazon founder Jeff Bezos (the Washington Post), Boston Red Sox owner John Henry (the Boston Globe), billionaire Glen Taylor (the Minneapolis Star-Tribune) and casino magnate...

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Why the withering nuclear power industry threatens US national security

  • Written by Michael E. Webber, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Deputy Director of the Energy Institute, University of Texas at Austin
imageAfter spending $9 billion on a nuclear power plant construction in South Carolina, project developers have pulled the plug. SCE&G, CC BY

These are tough times for nuclear power in the U.S. Power plants under construction are facing serious delays, halts and cost overruns. Utilities in South Carolina abandoned a project to complete construction...

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What the Google gender 'manifesto' really says about Silicon Valley

  • Written by Marie Hicks, Assistant Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
imageOh the terrible irony.Photo by Mar Hicks

Five years ago, Silicon Valley was rocked by a wave of “brogrammer” bad behavior, when overfunded, highly entitled, mostly white and male startup founders did things that were juvenile, out of line and just plain stupid. Most of these activities – such as putting pornography into PowerPoint...

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Tracing the links between basic research and real-world applications

  • Written by Benjamin F. Jones, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategy, J. L. Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
imageBasic research and applications coexist in a tangled two-way ecosystem.lenggirl/Shutterstock.com

What does hailing a ride with Uber have to do with 19th-century geometry and Einstein’s theory of relativity? Quite a bit, it turns out.

Uber and other location-based mobile applications rely on GPS to link users with available cars nearby. GPS...

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Thinking beyond Trump: Why power companies should be investing now in carbon-free electricity

  • Written by Jennifer Morris, Research Scientist, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
imageThe first U.S. offshore wind farm, near Block Island, Rhode Island, started delivering commercial electricity in December 2016.AP Photo/Michael Dwyer

When utility executives make decisions about building new power plants, a lot rides on their choices. Depending on their size and type, new generating facilities cost hundreds of millions or even...

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The untold stories of women in the 1967 Detroit rebellion and its aftermath

  • Written by Lisa Biggs, Assistant Professor, Theatre and Performance Studies, Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, Michigan State University
imagePeople gather around a truck to get food on Detroit's east side in July 1967. The food was brought to the riot-stricken area by the Crisis Council, one of the many organizations aiding residents.AP Photo

The movie “Detroit,” which tells the story of the 1967 Detroit rebellion, has received mixed reviews since its release. Some praised...

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Seeing without eyes – the unexpected world of nonvisual photoreception

  • Written by Thomas Cronin, Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
imageColor-changing cells in an Atlantic squid's skin contain light-sensitive pigments.Alexandra Kingston, CC BY-ND

We humans are uncommonly visual creatures. And those of us endowed with normal sight are used to thinking of our eyes as vital to how we experience the world.

Vision is an advanced form of photoreception – that is, light sensing. But...

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