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University of North Carolina at Charlotte shooting has these things in common with other campus shootings
ByJillian Peterson, Hamline University and James Densley, Metropolitan State University The April 30 shooting at the University of North Carolina…
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Is there a ‘feminine’ response to terrorism?
ByMona Krewel, Cornell University and Sabrina Karim, Cornell University After a terrorist shot and killed 50 people in two mosques…
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Shutting down social media does not reduce violence, but rather fuels it
ByJan Rydzak, Stanford University In the wake of a series of coordinated attacks that claimed more than 250 lives on…
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Missing school is a given for children of migrant farmworkers
ByAggie Ebrahimi Bazaz, Georgia State University In the summer of his junior year, Luis Miguel was struggling to stay in…
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Global economic policy: How are we doing?
By Brooke Faulkner One year after Jerome Powell was confirmed as the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, the U.S. dollar’s global value…
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After a third hearing, businesswoman Marsha Lazareva remains in a crowded Kuwaiti jail
By Henry Windsor The latest hearing in the case of businesswoman Marsha Lazareva ended in agony for the defendant and…
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Tackling the ‘Impossible’: ending violence
By Robert J. Burrowes Whenever, in ordinary circumstances, the subject of violence comes up, most people throw up their hands…
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In India, WhatsApp is a weapon of antisocial hatred
ByRohit Chopra, Santa Clara University A general election in India, the world’s most populous democracy, seems a theoretical impossibility. Collecting…
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To solve climate change and biodiversity loss, we need a Global Deal for Nature
ByGreg Asner, Arizona State University Earth’s cornucopia of life has evolved over 550 million years. Along the way, five mass…
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How artificial intelligence systems could threaten democracy
By Steven Feldstein, Boise State University U.S. technology giant Microsoft has teamed up with a Chinese military university to develop…
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