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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Kyle Jensen, University of North Texas and Jack Selzer, Pennsylvania State University(THE CONVERSATION) Since his inauguration, President Donald Trump has been waging war against the American press by dismissing unfavorable reports as “fake news” and calling the media “the enemy of the American people.”As a countermeasure, The Washington Post has publicly fact-checked every claim

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Francisco Javier López Frías, Pennsylvania State University and Cesar R. Torres, The College at Brockport, State University of New York(THE CONVERSATION) For a large swath of Americans, fall means football. But, as in previous years, this season’s football has been mired in controversy.Most notable of these has been the Colin Kaepernick case. Kaepernick has accused the NFL of

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Bryan Keogh, The Conversation; Jeff Inglis, The Conversation, and Nicole Zelniker, The Conversation(THE CONVERSATION) Crytocurrencies, after a wild ride, may be at a tipping point. Bitcoin and other digital currencies exploded in 2017 only to spend much of 2018 losing a large chunk of those gains. A unit of bitcoin, the most popular cryptocurrency, climbed from under US$900 at the

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Patrick Rooney, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis(THE CONVERSATION) After 9/11, Americans responded with the kind of outpouring of generosity usually reserved for the most powerful hurricanes and earthquakes. Ever since those terrorist attacks, the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy has tracked donations from people, businesses and foundations

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Matthew Brock, The Ohio State University(THE CONVERSATION) On Sept. 20, the U.S. Department of Education released a new framework to “rethink” how the department oversees special education services for students with disabilities. As part of this framework, the department plans to provide states with “flexibility” and to “acknowledge” that states are “in the best position to

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Calvin Schermerhorn, Arizona State University(THE CONVERSATION) Far from being unusual, the hurried and partisan Supreme Court confirmation process for Brett Kavanaugh mirrors several notable examples of similarly politicized confirmations in U.S. history. Those conflicts, which ultimately placed justices on the court, yielded some of the most damaging civil rights decisions in our