Lotteries purportedly generate money to support public education. Jackpots are getting bigger and bigger – but states don't seem to be spending any more on education.
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What's really the most dangerous American city? The way crimes are currently counted in the US can easily confuse and mislead.
It's when times are good that the seeds of the next financial crisis are sown.
Mikroba yang bisa memakan antibiotik bisa berguna untuk membersihkan tanah dan air yang terkontaminasi limbah antibiotik.
Loin d’être affaibli par la modernité, le sentiment d’appartenance à une communauté ethnique ou religieuse « primordiale » domine aujourd’hui la politique.
Antibiotic-munching microbes may prove useful for mopping up contaminated water supplies and land.
Starbucks is giving this training to its employees, but it’s still so new that there's no standard format and little research yet on whether it's effective.
Identity politics can take an exclusionary or even predatory form, but can they also be more progressive and emancipatory?
America has been promoting religious liberty abroad since its founding, but there has always been disagreement on what exactly it means.
Most Americans don't want the United States to be the world's policeman. Do the experts agree?
A recent study suggests that shunning parents who are reluctant to vaccinate their kids isn't the best strategy. A better strategy might be old-fashioned, but it works.
What is a grand jury, who serves on it and what is it used for? A criminal law expert tells you everything you need to know.
Trump's budget would eliminate the National Endowment for the Humanities, breaking a tradition of funding humanities scholarship that goes back to the nation's founding.
Distrust of the irreligious has been commonplace in the American political discourse from the founding.
A presidential historian explains how Trump’s inauguration marks a the end of an era defined not just by Obama, but by a series of baby boomer presidents. How will Trump be different?
Is the financial system headed for another 'Lehman moment'? Perhaps, but a bailout isn't the solution. More capital is, something Trump should remember as he rewrites U.S. bank rules.
The rising cost of drugs is more worrisome to most Americans than problems with Obamacare. Could proposals in California and Ohio help?
Scholars from the Washington University in St. Louis react to the second presidential debate.
To discourage smoking, insurance companies charge higher premiums for smokers. This is having an unexpected consequence: rather than quit smoking, poor people are quitting insurance.
Is America exceptional? An expert on rhetoric examines how the idea has changed over time, and how Democrats are claiming their own version.
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Associate Professor of English, Washington University in St Louis
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Professor of Finance, Washington University in St Louis
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Assistant Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University in St Louis
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Washington University in St Louis
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Associate Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Washington University in St Louis
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Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences Sociocultural Anthropology, IPSP, Washington University in St Louis
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Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities, Washington University in St Louis
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Visiting Assistant Professor in Statistics, Washington University in St Louis
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Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of Public Health Sciences, Washington University in St Louis
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Henry Hitchcock Professor of Law, School of Law, Washington University in St Louis
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Professor of History & American Culture Studies, Washington University in St Louis
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Associate Professor of Law, Washington University in St Louis
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Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Washington University in St Louis
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Post Doctoral Trainee of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University in St Louis
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Professor of Political Science, Washington University in St Louis
