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Neoliberalism's failure means we need a new narrative to guide global economy

  • Written by Sandra Waddock, Galligan Chair of Strategy and Carroll School Scholar of Corporate Responsibility, Boston College

Neoliberalism, the dominant narrative guiding Western democracies and their economies for almost 70 years, is crumbling all around us.

It was set up to protect our freedoms. But neoliberalism’s excesses and failures – from recent financial crises to soaring levels of income inequality – have fueled populist movements that...

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What women with breast cancer should know about estrogens

  • Written by Jeffrey D. Blaustein, Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst
imageDoctors and patients should appreciate the many roles estrogens play in the body.Doctor and patient image via www.shutterstock.com.

One of every eight women in the United States will develop invasive breast cancer over her lifetime. Eighty percent of those cancers are fueled in part by estrogens.

One treatment for women whose breast cancer is fueled...

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The Italian referendum: No Trump nor Brexit

  • Written by Erik Jones, Professor of European Studies and International Political Economy, Johns Hopkins University

The Italians have delivered an overwhelming defeat to Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.

Initial tallies of Dec. 4’s referendum show a vote of just under 60 percent rejecting Renzi’s constitutional reform package, with a little more than 40 percent supporting it. Voter turnout was strong, with more than 68.5 percent of eligible voters inside...

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Microbes: Our tiny, crucial allies

  • Written by David R. Montgomery, Professor of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington
imageIn us, on us and all around us.Microbes image via www.shutterstock.com.

Most of us considered microbes little more than nasty germs before science recently began turning our view of the microbial world on its head. A “microbe” is a bacterium and any other organism too small to see with the naked eye. After decades of trying to sanitize...

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What changes when Pope Francis grants all priests the authority to forgive abortions

  • Written by Mathew Schmalz, Associate Professor of Religion, College of the Holy Cross

The Roman Catholic Church will allow priests all over the world to grant forgiveness for abortion. This announcement came from Pope Francis at the end of the Jubilee of Mercy – a holy year dedicated to forgiveness.

When the holy year concluded on Nov. 20, Pope Francis made permanent the permission that he had provisionally given priests to...

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Balancing cybersecurity and academic freedom is a challenge on campus

  • Written by Jungwoo Ryoo, Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at Altoona campus, Pennsylvania State University
imageThe campus community can have different cyber priorities.John Hogg / World Bank, CC BY-NC-ND

Cybersecurity concerns crop up everywhere you turn lately – around theelection, email services, retailers. And academic institutions haven’t been immune to security breaches either. According to a recent report by VMware, almost all universities...

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'Parental alienation': What it means and why it matters

  • Written by Jennifer Harman, Associate Professor of Applied Social and Health Psychology, Colorado State University
imageAlienated?Parent and child image via www.shutterstock.com.

Parental alienation – defined as when one parent’s relationship with his or her child is harmed by the other parent – can have devastating consequences.

Many legal professionals and psychologists have known about parental alienation for decades. But for political and...

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Why did a new Colombian peace agreement come so quickly after the referendum 'no' vote?

  • Written by Arthur Lupia, Research Professor, University of Michigan

In October, when Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the Nobel Peace Prize, some people were confused. Why did Santos receive the prize days after Colombian voters narrowly defeated a historic peace agreement?

A closer look at Santos’ strategic actions offers clarity about both the prize and why a new agreement has so quickly emerged.

M...

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Three ways Facebook could reduce fake news without resorting to censorship

  • Written by Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Professor of Information Studies, Syracuse University
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The public gets a lot of its news and information from Facebook. Some of it is fake. That presents a problem for the site’s users, and for the company itself.

Facebook cofounder and chairman Mark Zuckerberg said the company will find ways to address the problem, though he didn’t acknowledge its severity. And...

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10 ways the tech industry and the media helped create President Trump

  • Written by Damian Radcliffe, Caroline S. Chambers Professor in Journalism, University of Oregon
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Three weeks after Donald Trump won a historic victory to become the 45th president of the United States, the media postmortems continue.

In particular, the role played by the media and technology industries is coming under heavy scrutiny in the press, with Facebook’s role in the rise of fake newscurrently enjoying...

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  7. Circadian rhythms and the microbiome: Disrupting daily routine of gut microbes can be bad news for whole body
  8. Trump’s Carrier coup reveals credibility gap between Twitter rhetoric and economic reality
  9. Eyes in the sky: Cutting NASA Earth observations would be a costly mistake
  10. Neuroscience hasn't been weaponized – it's been a tool of war from the start
  11. What cyber charter schools are and why their growth should worry us
  12. Donald Trump is no Mussolini, but liberal democracy could still be in danger
  13. Why male couples should think about HIV in their relationships
  14. How Trump's immigration enforcement could affect families and communities
  15. Experts' roundtable: The future of journalism in Trump's America
  16. Fusion energy: A time of transition and potential
  17. Why America's labor unions are about to die
  18. America says goodbye to Michelle Obama, its mom-in-chief
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  20. Understanding the conditions that foster coral reefs' caretaker fishes
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  22. How Trump could shock a divided nation back to life as collaborator-in-chief
  23. Globalization and its discontents: Why there's a backlash and how it needs to change
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  29. What China's 'export machine' can teach Trump about globalization
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  31. Misinformation on social media: Can technology save us?
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  34. 100 years of the 'gender gap' in American politics
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  39. The seeds of the alt-right, America's emergent right-wing populist movement
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  43. With waning US leadership on climate, nonstate actors to play outsize role
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  46. It wasn't just 'fake news' presenting a fake Hillary Clinton
  47. Trump may reverse US climate policy but will have trouble dismantling EPA
  48. Confirmation bias: A psychological phenomenon that helps explain why pundits got it wrong
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