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When US cities offered low-cost, high-quality public transit during World War II, buses and trains were full. Some cities are trying to revive that formula, after decades of disinvestment.
Love it or hate it, the ‘Acela Corridor’ has developed a widely recognized identity thanks to the trains that link it together.
A civil engineer lays out the physics behind Dali’s crash into the Francis Scott Key Bridge pier.
Human error may have contributed to the tragic accident in Baltimore harbour on March 26. Designing systems that reduce the potential for human error may help prevent future incidents.
The collapse of the Francis Scott Key bridge is already affecting global supply chains.
A cargo ship leaving the Port of Baltimore collided with a bridge in a technological disaster that may have claimed the lives of up to six maintenance workers on the bridge at the time.
We’ll need to learn the lessons from this disaster.
A civil engineer explains why ships taking out bridges is rare, and describes how bridge builders protect the structures from ship collisions.
A supply chain expert looks at the short- and long-term impacts of the bridge collapse.
Two ship pilots were on board the large cargo vessel that hit Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge. A veteran ship captain describes the role these pilots play in close-quarter maneuvering.
As the journalism industry continues to crater, wealthy plutocrats are consolidating their control over information systems.
Transportation agencies plan for events like major bridge or highway collapses, but these events can disrupt traffic for months and affect residential neighborhoods as well as motorists.
Honolulu, Baltimore, Charleston, S.C. and several other cities harmed by rising seas and extreme weather are suing the oil industry. At stake is who pays for the staggering costs of climate change.
Police departments have faced recruitment and retention problems since the 2020 George Floyd protests. It has meant some agencies have had to lower standards to attract new officers.
The officers charged in the murder of a Black man in Memphis, Tenn., were part of the elite SCORPION squad. Such units have an ugly history.
Unfortunately, wrongful convictions do happen, and they often share similar underlying causes.
America’s public schools often lack the adequate security to protect their students’ most sensitive data from being linked on the web.
Two Lumbee scholars who have mined local archives in search of tribal history raise the profound question: Who has the rights to memories and artifacts of their people’s past?
Police experience in crisis and hostage negotiation could come in handy when dealing with cybercriminals who have, effectively, kidnapped data.
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Assistant Curator for History and Culture, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution
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Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of South Carolina
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John Rennie Short is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Lecturer in English, Yale University
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Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Education and Health Law Clinic, Rutgers University - Newark
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Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, West Virginia University
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Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh
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Director and Associate Professor of Language, Literacy and Culture Ph.D. Program and Affiliate Associate Professor in the Department of Africana Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Lecturer in American Studies, Sustainability, and EcoJustice, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Researcher in Crowd Behaviour, University of Brighton
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Director, Center for Applied Insight Conflict Resolution; Adjuct Faculty at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, George Mason University
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Assistant Professor of African-American Studies and Political Science, Yale University
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Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Georgia Southern University
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Associate Professor of Communications, Penn State
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Lecturer of Gender and Women’s Studies and the Director of the Women Involved in Learning and Leadership (WILL) program, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
