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Editor's note
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If you want to understand President Donald Trump’s voter fraud commission, take a look at Kansas. That’s where Chris Kobach, Trump’s pick as the commission’s vice chairman, enacted the nation’s strictest voter ID law in 2011. Political scientist Chelsie Bright tells the story of how Kobach has helped such laws spread in the years since then.
As the health care debate continues to roil Washington, Diane Dewar at University at Albany takes a step back to consider the health economy as a whole. Nearly one-fifth of U.S. GDP is spent on health care – where does all of that money go?
A benchmark forecast calls for the global oil market to keep growing for decades. But electric vehicles, combined with other trends like ridesharing, could change that, bringing on what experts call “peak oil demand” by 2040, explain two University of California, Davis energy and transportation scholars.
And autonomous cars could also have an impact –and on a great many other things as well, write Johanna Zmud and Paul Carlson from the Texas A&M Transportation Institute. But first, they say, our transportation system will need to change, in some ways we can expect and in other ways we can’t even imagine.
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Emily Costello
Senior Editor, Politics + Society
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A Kansas voter prepares to cast her ballot – and prove her identity – in the 2014 midterm elections.
AP Photo/Charlie Riedel
Chelsie Bright, Assistant Adjunct Professor, Mills College
As Kansas' secretary of state, Kobach drafted the nation's most restrictive voter ID law.
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Health + Medicine
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Diane Dewar, University at Albany, State University of New York
Nearly one-fifth of US GDP is spent on health care. Where does all of that money go?
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Lynne Anderson, The Conversation
A study of the brains of 111 NFL players after their deaths showed that 110 had degenerative brain disease. Here are some expert analyses of what can be done to stop brain injury from sports.
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Joseph J. Fins, Cornell University
While current congressional leaders are digging in their heels along party lines, it might be good to take a step back and consider how two Senate leaders in the 1980s reached across the aisle.
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Environment + Energy
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Amy Myers Jaffe, University of California, Davis; Lewis Fulton, University of California, Davis
Shifting to plug-in cars wouldn't be enough to max out global oil consumption by 2040. But it could help make that happen if cities pitch in and ride-sharing doesn't crowd out public transportation.
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Jennifer Weeks, The Conversation
Within the next month, the Trump administration may move to abolish or shrink up to two dozen national monuments. Our experts explain why these sites matter and whether presidents can undo them.
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Science + Technology
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Johanna Zmud, Texas A&M University ; Paul Carlson, Texas A&M University
How might we, and our nation's roads and highways, need to change as autonomous vehicles become more ubiquitous? We know a lot of the answers, but not all of them.
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Christopher Keane, Washington State University
Research dollars don't stay locked up in academia and government labs. R&D collaborations with the private sector are common – and grow the innovation economy.
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Joanne M. Pierce, College of the Holy Cross
The Catholic Church prohibits the use of gluten-free bread for Communion. The reasons lie in the challenges faced by the Catholic Church in the past.
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Sarah Thebaud, University of California, Santa Barbara; Laura Doering, McGill University
Why do we consider some occupations 'male' and other 'female'? New research sheds some light on how giving jobs genders hurts everyone, men included.
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Ian Haydon, University of Washington
Rather than being designed by chemists, this class of pharmaceuticals is produced by living cells. Here's where they come from and how they work.
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