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A House majority, including 10 Republicans, voted yesterday to impeach President Donald Trump for his role inciting the riots at the U.S. Capitol last week. The trial in the Senate likely won’t take place until after the president leaves office on Jan. 20, leading some to question the point of impeachment.
Scholar Michael Blake, who writes about the moral justifications of social and legal institutions, argues impeachment is not about control or punishment, but aims to mark the moral limits of a presidency.
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A different type of protest comes to the Capitol.
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Michael Blake, University of Washington
Even though a House majority voted to impeach, President Trump, the process will likely not be finished before he's left office. A philosopher argues why the impeachment is an important moral action.
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Ethics + Religion
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Vida Johnson, Georgetown University
The FBI has long warned that white supremacist groups are seeking to infiltrate police, which makes the events of Jan. 6 all the more concerning.
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Science + Technology
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Bert Spector, Northeastern University
Massive vaccine distribution efforts take a lot of coordination. The rollout of the Salk polio vaccine in the US in 1955 holds lessons for those delivering COVID-19 shots today.
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Nicole Hassoun, Binghamton University, State University of New York
'Orphan drugs' with high price points are being tested as treatments for COVID-19. There's a better way to spur low-cost innovation for new drugs.
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Politics/Election '20
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Jordan Brasher, Columbus State University
Since its creation, the infamous diagonal blue cross with white stars on a red background has been a symbol of white resistance to giving Black Americans more political power.
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Ritika Goel, University of California, Berkeley
Pointing out the benefits of white privilege has become a racial justice rallying cry, but associating 'white' with 'privilege' in the classroom can harm academic performance among students of color.
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Education
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Scott A Imberman, Michigan State University; Dan Goldhaber, American Institutes for Research; Katharine O. Strunk, Michigan State University
When a community reopens its schools and COVID-19 rates increase, other factors – not the reopening of schools – may still be to blame, new research finds.
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Arts + Culture
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Liberty Vittert, Washington University in St Louis
The Mega Millions lotto pot for Jan. 15 is the second largest it's ever been. Taxes on the lotto go to state governments, but often the money isn't spent in quite the way it's supposed to be.
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Jill Joyce, Oklahoma State University
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Michelle L.D. Hanlon, University of Mississippi
Who cares what happens to bootprints on the Moon? All humans should. And thankfully the US Congress and president agree.
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Adil Najam, Boston University
There's no going back to normal after COVID-19, partly because our pre-pandemic world was anything but normal.
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