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Editor's note
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This weekend, Coachella will unofficially kick off America’s music festival season. While Coachella expects record crowds, many similar festivals had a disappointing turnout last year. Does the country have festival fatigue? UMass-Amherst’s Jonathan Wynn explains how a growing corporate presence at many festivals has led to a creeping conformity that may be turning off music fans.
As new Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch takes his seat on the Supreme Court, Daniel Rockmore and Michael Livermore use machine learning and text analysis to document how the court’s rulings have shifted over time, becoming less like a court and reading more like political messages.
And today is Jackie Robinson Day in Major League Baseball, the 70th anniversary of Robinson’s debut for the Brooklyn Dodgers. While the story of his first game and season are enshrined in baseball lore, fans might not know about the role politics played in his signing – or the insults and threats lobbed his way during his first spring training in Florida.
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Nick Lehr
Editor, Arts and Culture
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Top story
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People watch Father John Misty perform at the 2015 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California.
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Jonathan Wynn, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Music festivals have been a boon to the music industry, but now we're starting to witness some pitfalls of commercial success: consolidation and creeping conformity.
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Jackie Robinson Day
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Chris Lamb, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Brooklyn Dodgers President Branch Rickey liked to take credit for breaking the color barrier. In truth, it was the culmination of a long campaign waged by the left wing press and labor unions.
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Chris Lamb, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Much has been written about Robinson’s first major league game. Far less is known about the first integrated spring training game in Florida.
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Science + Technology
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Daniel N. Rockmore, Dartmouth College; Michael A. Livermore, University of Virginia
The Supreme Court's public reputation is strong in part because people see it as less political than other government branches. What can text analysis tell us about how accurate that perception is?
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Ian Haydon, University of Washington
Scientists invented chemical weapons; some are now working to destroy them. New biomolecular design techniques let researchers design proteins that can destroy nerve agents in bodies.
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Mark Stoeckle, The Rockefeller University
Animals shed bits of DNA as they go about their lives. A new study of the Hudson River estuary tracked spring migration of ocean fish by collecting water samples and seeing whose DNA was present when.
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Economy + Business
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Jay L. Zagorsky, The Ohio State University
As tax day approaches, here's a primer on how your dollars help fund the U.S. government, and how your share has probably increased.
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Susan Appe, Binghamton University, State University of New York
With steep budget cuts looming, a growing number of tiny volunteer-driven organizations are delivering aid on their own. Will the Trump administration inspire even more small-scale global giving?
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Jan Stoop, Erasmus University Rotterdam; James Andreoni, University of California, San Diego; Nikos Nikiforakis, New York University Abu Dhabi
The wealthy evade taxes and are less likely to donate to charity, but does this mean they're more selfish than everyone else? New research suggests not.
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Politics + Society
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Joshua Cole, University of Michigan
Get up to speed before the first round of voting on April 23.
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Laura Gamboa, Utah State University
Rather than an outright coup, Venezuela's government has slowly eroded its democratic institutions and processes, until now.
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Environment + Energy
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Berrien Moore III, University of Oklahoma; Sean Crowell, University of Oklahoma
Why use satellites to study Earth's climate? Researchers leading a new mission explain how images from space will help them analyze which parts of the Americas soak up the most carbon.
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Scott L. Montgomery, University of Washington
Oil production used to fall when prices were low. But a new drilling boom in Alaska, driven by technical advances and global partnerships, spotlights America's rise as a world oil power.
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Deborah Morrison, University of Oregon; Nicole Smith Dahmen, University of Oregon
The EPA served as a conduit between the federal government and at-risk communities. Communications scholars look at how environmental justice issues could be set back in scaled-down EPA.
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