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Editor's note
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The Trump administration has outlined its spending priorities for the coming fiscal year and plans to formally submit a budget proposal next week. Highlights include a $54 billion increase in military spending to be offset in other discretionary programs like art, environmental protection and the Coast Guard. But a lack of substance, combined with politically toxic spending cuts, mean
Trump’s budget blueprint isn’t going anywhere, writes Roy Meyers, a political science professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and a former Congressional Budget Office analyst.
The Congressional Budget Office will play a big role in deciding the fate of House Republicans’ plan to replace Obamacare. Two experts look at how the new plan compares, including its call for incentives rather than a mandate to entice healthy people into buying health insurance.
And in the wake of the latest WikiLeaks release – of documents related to CIA hacking – cybersecurity scholars Richard Forno and Anupam Joshi from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County explain what it tells us, including that we all need to step up our cyberdefenses.
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Bryan Keogh
Editor, Economics and Business
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Trump’s budget director, left, says White House spending priorities are straight out of the president’s mouth.
Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
Roy T. Meyers, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Trump is proposing a budget with little substance and filled with politically toxic spending cuts, making it very unlikely to go anywhere, even in a Republican Congress.
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Science + Technology
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Richard Forno, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Anupam Joshi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
The latest release from WikiLeaks, of information about CIA hacking efforts, is yet another reminder of how Americans and our government must better protect our secret information.
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“Our analysis also shows that agriculture’s environmental footprint must shrink drastically to safeguard the ecosystems that humans rely on.”
Mitch Hunter
Pennsylvania State University
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Health + Medicine
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J.B. Silvers, Case Western Reserve University
The House Republican plan to replace Obamacare is consistent with many proposals that candidate Trump and others espoused. Yet key parts of it could favor the rich and hurt the poor and the aging.
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Geoffrey Joyce, University of Southern California
Republicans opposed Obamacare's mandate as much as they decried any part of the bill. How would their replacement idea, pegged to incentives, work?
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Shervin Assari, University of Michigan
Women are paid 20 percent less than men in the US but live about five years longer than men. You might be surprised at the reasons that men, on average, die at a younger age.
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Arts + Culture
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Catherine Anderson, George Washington University; Carla Viviana Coleman, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Craig M. Vogel, University of Cincinnati ; Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve University; Lorraine Justice, Rochester Institute of Technology
We asked five design experts – what's your favorite product of all time, and why?
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Politics + Society
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Kelly Lytle Hernandez, University of California, Los Angeles
In 1954, US Border Patrol's Operation Wetback promised to deport millions of undocumented Mexicans. It fell far short of its target, but made a mark in the minds of immigrants who lived in fear.
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Eileen M. Ahlin, Pennsylvania State University; Maria Joao Antunes, Towson University
The DOJ has found excessive use of force in the Baltimore, Ferguson and Chicago police departments. Could a solution be found by seeing the police as victims of violence as well?
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Stories of note
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Justin Cheng, Stanford University; Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Cornell University; Jure Leskovec, Stanford University; Michael Bernstein, Stanford University
You might think that trolling on the internet is done by a small, vocal minority of sociopaths. But what if all trolls aren’t born trolls? What if they are ordinary people like you and me?
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Darius Lakdawalla, University of Southern California; Anup Malani, University of Chicago
Opinions are strong about the Affordable Care Act, but not everyone understands what the nearly 1,000-page law does. In case you missed the high points of the law, here's a primer to help.
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Christian Weller, University of Massachusetts Boston
The Trump administration has been trashing Obama's economic legacy lately as it pursues a drastic change of course, but the facts tell a different story.
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Caleb Finch, University of Southern California; Jiu-Chiuan Chen, University of Southern California
New research shows that exposure to fine particulate air pollution may double the risk of dementia in older women by increasing growth of beta-amyloid plaques in the brain.
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