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Protest in Gauhati, India, on Sept. 20, 2019, part of worldwide demonstrations ahead of a U.N. summit in New York.
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Maxwell Boykoff, University of Colorado Boulder
'Two polar bears walk into a bar ...' is an unlikely opener for a joke, but memes and parodies are surprisingly effective ways to get people talking about climate change.
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Jane Bolin, Texas A&M University ; Bree Watzak, Texas A&M University ; Nancy Dickey, Texas A&M University
Rural hospital closings have accelerated in recent years, leaving not only sick people but ghost towns in their wake. Does the failure to fix it speak to the ills of the larger health care system?
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Charles Tiefer, University of Baltimore
A former congressional staffer says withholding damning evidence from Congress and using civilians to carry out presidential or intelligence agency agendas links the Ukraine crisis to other scandals.
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Jennifer M. Pacella, Indiana University
In many instances, whistleblowers find the abusive power they have revealed turned against them, both ending their careers and harming their personal lives.
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Elizabeth A. Barton, Wayne State University
A new project for Detroit middle and high schoolers combines athletics and mathematical concepts.
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Bill Sullivan, Indiana University
Drunk without drinking? Liver damage without drinking? Gut bacteria might be the cause.
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Anita Sengupta, University of Southern California
The first Martian might just be a human being.
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Matt Bertone, North Carolina State University
This Speed Read makes the case why you should be nice to spiders you encounter in your home and consider a live-and-let-live policy.
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Clark D. Cunningham, Georgia State University
The Founders saw as a regular part of ensuring presidential accountability. A constitutional scholar offers a possible process for a rapid and smooth impeachment inquiry.
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Jennifer Selin, University of Missouri-Columbia
The conflict between Congress and President Trump over his dealings with Ukraine's president is just the latest version of a long-running struggle for power between the two branches of government.
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