Editor's note
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At a time when the number of homeless people in the U.S. is rising for the first time in nearly a decade, thousands of ordinances restrict the right to ask passersby for money. But these punitive local laws are on the way out due to successful court challenges. As Joseph Mead, an assistant professor of law and urban studies, explains, the Constitution’s free-speech protections include the freedom to panhandle.
Italy’s political parties are negotiating behind the scenes to see if some of them can agree on a set of policies and form a governing coalition. Their top priority, writes Bruno Pellegrino, a PhD student in business economics at the University of California at Los Angeles, should be fixing an economy that has stagnated for more than two decades. Yet the issue barely surfaced during the campaign. Pellegrino recently examined what’s behind the Italian malaise and has an important message for the country’s politicians.
And there’s good news from the Chesapeake Bay, where a new study shows that reducing nutrient pollution has caused a huge resurgence of underwater grasses that are key to the bay’s health. Marine scientists Bill Dennison and Robert “JJ” Orth explain how putting the bay on a “pollution diet” made this improvement possible. putting the bay on a “pollution diet” made this improvement possible.
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Emily Schwartz Greco
Philanthropy + Nonprofits Editor
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Top Stories
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Derek Cote, a homeless man, panhandling in the median strip on a street in Portland, Maine.
AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty
Joseph W. Mead, Cleveland State University
The First Amendment protects everything from porn to hateful signs outside military funerals. That includes fundraising pitches of all kinds.
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The Five Star Movement’s Luigi Di Maio and founder Beppe Grillo won big in the March 4 elections.
AP Photo/Andrew Medichini
Bruno Pellegrino, University of California, Los Angeles
Italy has stagnated for more than two decades, yet its politicians seem hardly aware of the source of the problem, let alone how to fix it.
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Healthy aquatic vegetation in the Chesapeake Bay.
Cassie Gurbisz/University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Bill Dennison, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science; Robert J. Orth, Virginia Institute of Marine Science
An ambitious plan to cut the flow of nutrients into the Chesapeake Bay has produced historic regrowth of underwater seagrasses. These results offer hope for other polluted water bodies.
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Politics + Society
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Danielle Douez, The Conversation
Scholars have you covered on all sides of the 'Dreamers' issue, with solid research to boot.
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Veronica Herrera, University of Connecticut
In many Mexican cities, water is treated as a political bargaining chip – a favor that public officials can trade for votes, bribes or power.
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Science + Technology
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Richard White, Stanford University
Efforts to curb railroads' monopoly power in the 19th century hold lessons for 21st-century policymakers and internet giants alike.
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Ian Haydon, University of Washington
If Mary Shelley wrote the book today, Victor would surely be a synthetic biologist. But those fiddling with living things in 2018 have hopefully learned from her cautionary tale.
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From our international editions
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Coleen Suckling, Bangor University
Extreme weather led to starfish mass strandings along beaches in Kent and East Yorkshire.
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Isabella Jackson, Trinity College Dublin
There's a very unflattering historical parallel for Xi Jinping's move to lift term limits. The Chinese Communist Party is having none of it.
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Brynn Devine, Memorial University of Newfoundland; Jonathan A. D. Fisher, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Using baited cameras scientists have captured some of the first underwater video footage of the elusive Greenland shark.
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Chrisna Gouws, North-West University
Numerous traditional African medicines are undeniably beneficial in treating disease or maintaining good health.
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