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Voters backed two new Democrats for the Michigan State University Board of Trustees as the school continues to deal with the fallout involving sexual assaults by now-imprisoned former sports doctor Larry Nassar

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, Tufts University(THE CONVERSATION) Voter turnout among 18 to 29-year-olds in the 2018 midterm elections was 31 percent, according to a preliminary estimate by The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts University.That’s the highest youth turnout my colleagues and I have observed since we started collecting data in 1994.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Robert Kelchen, Seton Hall University(THE CONVERSATION) The first group of borrowers who tried to get Public Service Loan Forgiveness – a George W. Bush-era program meant to provide relief to those who went into socially valuable but poorly paid public service jobs, such as teachers and social workers – mostly ran into a brick wall.Of the 28,000 public servants who applied for

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Steve Pinkerton, Case Western Reserve University(THE CONVERSATION) The citizens of Ireland voted recently, in a nationwide referendum, to remove a clause from their constitution that had made blasphemy a criminal offense. Ireland’s now-defunct Defamation Act of 2009 prohibited the “publication or utterance of blasphemous matter.” Just last year, in fact, Irish police opened a brief

Thirty people have gone on trial in western Germany for allegedly abusing migrants physically and mentally at an asylum center in 2014

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Gymama Slaughter, Old Dominion University(THE CONVERSATION) Diabetes is the seventh-leading cause of death in the U.S., with about 30.3 million adults having the disease. One in 4 adults does not even know he or she has diabetes. In addition, 84.1 million adults have prediabetes – a condition with elevated blood sugar levels – and 90 percent of them do not know they have it. The

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Elizabeth C. Tippett, University of Oregon(THE CONVERSATION) The 2018 midterm elections represented the first electoral referendum of the #MeToo era. More than 500 women ran in primaries for federal office, a pipeline that ultimately led to a record number of women set to take office.Even so, it also reveals how far women are from achieving parity in politics – they are projected to

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Matthew Doude, Mississippi State University; Christopher Goodin, Mississippi State University, and Daniel Carruth, Mississippi State University(THE CONVERSATION) Autonomous vehicles can follow the general rules of American roads, recognizing traffic signals and lane markings, noticing crosswalks and other regular features of the streets. But they work only on well-marked roads that

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Two former presidents of Madagascar are neck and neck as votes are being counted in the presidential election that seeks to end years of political instability in this Indian Ocean island nation