Some hires by DeVos stark departure from her reputation
Since her confirmation as the education secretary, Betsy DeVos has been the Trump cabinet member liberals love to hate ...
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After the Paris exit, a call for citizen investors
At the dawn of the Second World War, while Hitler’s forces consolidated in Europe and Imperial Japan expanded into China and prepared its assault on the Pacific, the United States sat relatively idle.
A Course Too Hot to Handle?
Academics at UNC want to know what was wrong with plans for a class dealing with athletics scandals, including one at Chapel Hill.
Climate Science Meets a Stubborn Obstacle: Students
To Gwen Beatty, a junior at the high school in this proud, struggling, Trump-supporting town, the new science teacher’s lessons on climate change seemed explicitly designed to provoke her.
Former Penn State President Spanier gets jail time in Sandusky case
The former president of Penn State University and two other former administrators were sentenced to jail terms Friday for failing to report a 2001 allegation that assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was molesting young boys.
US can ask visa applicants for social media history
The Trump administration has approved plans to ask US visa applicants for details of their social media use.
Should scientific misconduct be a crime?
Amid growing concern about fraud in research and the challenges of reproducing the results of scientific trials, these questions were hotly debated at the World Conference on Research Integrity
‘Academic Terrorist’
Months after deleting controversial lists of “predatory” journals and publishers, the librarian behind them still faces anonymous harassment online.
America heads to the exit: What Trump got wrong about Paris
In announcing his decision to withdraw from the Paris accord, President Trump cast it as a matter of putting America first.
When the Left Turns on Its Own
Bret Weinstein is a biology professor at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., who supported Bernie Sanders, admiringly retweets Glenn Greenwald and was an outspoken supporter of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
