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Mind the gaps: Reducing hunger by improving yields on small farms

  • Written by Paul West, Co-Director and Lead Scientist of the Global Landscapes Initiative, Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota
imageSoybean farmer in MalawiIFPRI/Mitchell Maher via Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

One of the most urgent challenges we face in the next several decades is feeding a growing world population without irreparably damaging Earth’s land, air and water systems. Nearly 800 million people worldwide are undernourished today. The U.N.‘s Sustainable...

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Paid family leave policies are expanding, but are new mothers actually taking time off?

  • Written by Jay L. Zagorsky, Economist and Research Scientist, The Ohio State University
imageBring your baby to work day?Office baby via www.shutterstock.com

The recent presidential campaign reminded us that the U.S. is one of only a handful of countries that doesn’t require companies to provide paid maternity leave.

Maternity leave is important. One of the key reasons is because medical researchers have shown overwhelmingly positive...

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Earthquakes triggered by humans pose growing risk

  • Written by Gillian Foulger, Professor of Geophysics, Durham University
imageDevastation in Sichuan province after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, thought to be induced by industrial activity at a nearby reservoir.dominiqueb/flickr

People knew we could induce earthquakes before we knew what they were. As soon as people started to dig minerals out of the ground, rockfalls and tunnel collapses must have become recognized...

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Will Trump negotiate a better coal deal for taxpayers?

  • Written by Meredith Fowlie, Associate Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
imageTrump promises to revive the coal industry in part by opening up mining on federal lands, yet economists found that increasing royalties on public land would lead to more mining elsewhere, including Northern Appalachia and the Illinois Basin.AP Photo/Steve Helber

It’s here. The first week of the Trump administration. And it promises to be a...

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China steps up as US steps back from global leadership

  • Written by Flynt L. Leverett, Professor of International Affairs and Asian Studies, Pennsylvania State University
imageChina's President Xi Jinping at the podium at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.AP Photo/Michel Euler

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s appearance at last week’s World Economic Forum shows global leadership is shifting, not drifting, toward Beijing. The most vigorous defense of globalization and multilateral cooperation was...

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Dispatch from DC: On the National Mall, the state of a nation

  • Written by Lisa Benton-Short, Associate Professor of Geography, George Washington University

On Jan. 20, Americans focused their attention on Washington, D.C., as the presidential inauguration ceremony took place on the National Mall, a place that urban scholars, geographers and historians refer to as a “stage for democracy.”

As an urban geographer, I study the important role of public space in cities. Perhaps no public space...

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Donald Trump waves goodbye to era of baby boomer presidents

  • Written by Peter Kastor, Professor of History & American Culture Studies, Washington University in St Louis

As Donald Trump was sworn into office, Barack Obama watched. Bill Clinton and George W. Bush were also nearby, in more ways than one.

I regularly teach a course on the American presidency. My students join a generation of Americans who have come of age with a particular vision of the presidency established by Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack...

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Trump's cabinet: Eight essential reads

  • Written by Emily Costello, Senior Editor, Politics + Society, The Conversation

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

The members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet will hold power over policies that determine many aspects of life in the U.S., touching citizens and immigrants, America’s relations with foreign governments and our nation’s use of natural resources.

The task of...

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Trump's inaugural speech: Is it morning or mourning in America?

  • Written by Christian Lundberg, Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Communication Consultant, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill

President Donald Trump’s inaugural speech – a brief address, which, at 1,433 words, was the shortest since President Carter’s – combined his trademark combative populism with shades of Ronald Reagan.

Though sprinkled with calls for unity, it also relied upon creating a sharp divide between his self-declared...

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NATO's future when America comes first

  • Written by Simon Reich, Professor in The Division of Global Affairs and The Department of Political Science, Rutgers University Newark

Former President Obama famously suggested in a 2016 interview that he questioned a set of orthodox assumptions about American foreign policy that he labeled “the Washington Playbook.”

That orthodoxy, widely accepted among American political elites since 1945, includes an unending national commitment to employ America’s financial...

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