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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Alexandra Staub, Pennsylvania State University(THE CONVERSATION) When large companies move into an area, politicians often proclaim how the new business will create jobs, increase tax revenues, and thus lead to economic growth. This is one reason local governments offer tax incentives to businesses willing to move in. Amazon’s decision to locate offices in Long Island City across

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Richard E. Peltier, University of Massachusetts Amherst(THE CONVERSATION) The impacts of recent forest fires in California reach well beyond the burned areas. Smoke from the Camp Fire created hazardous air quality conditions in San Francisco, more than 170 miles to the southwest – but it didn’t stop there. Cross-country winds carried it across the United States, creating hazy

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Mubashar Hasan, University of Oslo(THE CONVERSATION) The seeds of rock ‘n’ roll culture were planted in Bangladesh during the birth of the country in 1971, after a war for liberation separated this majority-Muslim territory from Pakistan. For most of the 20th century, the region was a traditional Southasian agrarian society. Its soundtrack: Bengali folk music, featuring instruments

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Ronald W. Pies, Tufts University(THE CONVERSATION) Over a decade ago, I wrote a piece for a psychiatric journal entitled “Is Bigotry a Mental Illness?” At the time, some psychiatrists were advocating making “pathological bigotry” or pathological bias – essentially, bias so extreme it interferes with daily function and reaches near-delusional proportions – an official psychiatric

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Samantha Snively, University of California, Davis(THE CONVERSATION) In 1996, a graduate student named Mark Robson was creating a digital catalog of the University of Leeds’ Brotherton Library when he discovered a small manuscript on the shelf. The elegantly titled “Poems Breathed Forth by the Noble Hadassas” contained 120 poems and a half-finished prose romance. As far as Robson

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) André Boehman, University of Michigan(THE CONVERSATION) President Donald Trump has promised his supporters in Iowa that the federal government will take a step that may increase corn ethanol sales. This plant-derived fuel, which comprises about 10 percent of the 143 billion gallons of gasoline Americans buy each year, is a kind of alcohol made from corn. The industry first emerged

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Nir Kshetri, University of North Carolina – Greensboro(THE CONVERSATION) When a Chinese consumer buys a package labeled “Australian beef,” there’s only a 50-50 chance the meat inside is, in fact, Australian beef. It could just as easily contain rat, dog, horse or camel meat – or a mixture of them all. It’s gross and dangerous, but also costly.Fraud in the global food industry is a

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Carol Cutler White, Mississippi State University(THE CONVERSATION) The first time that Nyah visited the University of North Carolina at Greensboro for a campus tour, there wasn’t much of a chance to see what takes place inside the classrooms.“We just walked by buildings and the guide talked about what goes on inside,” Nyah recalls of the campus tour this past spring.But during a

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A Cameroon military official says the military has freed nine children and their teacher who had been kidnapped by gunmen Tuesday from a school in Kumba in the country's restive English-speaking South West region

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Spain's National Court has outlawed a union of sex workers, saying that recognition of the group amounted to making the exploitation of prostitutes legal