Nobody wants to see an accident involving flammable, corrosive or radioactive material. But understanding the rules put in place to prevent these accidents isn’t easy.
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The US government regulates many industries, but social media companies don’t neatly fit existing regulatory templates. Systems that deliver energy may be the closest analog.
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The lasting problems of infrastructure aren’t of need or construction, but of overbuilding, delayed costs and the challenges of thinking ahead.
Seven of the past 10 business bailouts since 1969 have either broke even, or more frequently, ended up making a tidy profit for taxpayers.
Fear of COVID-19 has sparked some to react with violent racism towards Asian Americans and Canadians. This is not the first time fear of disease has led to outbreaks of violent anti-Asian racism.
Institutions that benefited from donations from benefactors such as Epstein are facing hard questions. In a somewhat similar ethical debate in 1905, a pastor argued for return of a Rockefeller gift.
Rail advocates often make the case that trains are a cleaner mode of transportation, but why is that so? And what would it take to expand rail in the U.S.?
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Executive Director of the Center for Railway Research and Education, Michigan State University
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Assistant Professor of Intellectual Heritage, Temple University
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Director of Energy Studies, University of Florida
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Professor of American History, Stanford University
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Lecturer of Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Doctoral Student, Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management, Michigan State University
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Professor of Business Analytics and Operations Management, University of Dayton
