President Trump has warned that he will send the military into states to curb protests. Is Trump’s warning bluster? Or does the president have the authority to send the military into American cities?
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Throughout the coronavirus crisis, President Trump has made inconsistent statements about who is responsible for key aspects of the nation’s response to the pandemic. The Constitution has the answer.
The COVID-19 outbreak presents many opportunities for students to develop needed solutions to real-life problems, says a researcher overseeing school project to produce personal protective equipment.
The resilience of Al-Shabaab raises questions about the effectiveness of the current US military strategy in Somalia.
The House of Representatives voted Thursday on a resolution that laid out a process for the inquiry into the impeachment of President Donald Trump. But was the resolution constitutionally necessary?
The conflict between Congress and President Trump over his dealings with Ukraine’s president is just the latest version of a long-running struggle for power between the two branches of government.
It’s dangerous for the press to take up Julian Assange’s cause, two journalism scholars write. Assange is no journalist, they say, and making him out to be one is likely to damage press freedoms.
It might appear to many that atheism is a modern idea. However, in parts of Asia, particularly in India, atheism has been part of beliefs for thousands of years.
Many researchers have studied the impact of carbon dioxide and heat on crop growth inside greenhouses. But what happens in the real world? One team has just done this and the results are surprising.
After the storm is over, it’s time to rebuild – and natural disasters can affect survivors’ health for years to come.
Reagan, Clinton, Obama and Trump would all pull from the Kennedy playbook, from mastering the media to exuding masculine vitality.
An online database explores the nearly 36,000 slave voyages that occurred between 1514 and 1866.
Just about everyone wants medical care, but some want it a lot more. We discovered a personality trait that explains why it’s hard to improve health care outcomes and costs.
Individual stories of perceived vaccine harms can undermine trust in vaccine safety, even if people don’t believe the vaccine was to blame.
Trump’s campaign challenges the conventions of politics and liberal democracy. So maybe the time has come to question how journalists practice objectivity.
Mapping Web usage shows a new picture of the Internet, one without its core in the West, but rather a mosaic of online regional cultures that mirror offline regional cultural identities.
With the presidential debates being derided as evidence we live in a “post-fact” political world, why aren’t the moderators “truth vigilantes”?
Aux États-Unis, une nouvelle étude montre que les résultats des élèves sont directement affectés après une fusillade à l’école. Nous republions notre article après le drame de l'Oregon.
What happens to kids who survive school shootings? What are some of the damaging effects they are left to cope with?
What’s behind a plant scientist’s research getting reported in over 4,000 media outlets? Here’s her post-game analysis.
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Assistant Professor of Special Education, University of Missouri-Columbia
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Associate Professor of Law, University of Missouri-Columbia
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Missouri-Columbia
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Assistant Professor of Sociology (Tenure Track), University of Missouri-Columbia
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Associate Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Missouri-Columbia
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Assistant Professor, Trulaske College of Business, University of Missouri-Columbia
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Adjunct Assistant Professor of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia
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Associate Professor of Communication and Public Health, University of Missouri-Columbia
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Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Missouri-Columbia
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Professor of Information Science & Learning Technologies, University of Missouri-Columbia
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Professor of History, University of Missouri-Columbia
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Professor and Lee Hills Chair of Free Press Studies, University of Missouri-Columbia
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Associate Professor of Rural Sociology, University of Missouri-Columbia
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Associate Professor and Department Chair, University of Missouri-Columbia
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PhD Student, Harry S. Truman School of Government and Public Affairs. Graduate Fellow, Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy, University of Missouri-Columbia
