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Opinion: WhatsApp skewed Brazilian election, showing social media’s danger to democracy

By Luca Belli, The Conversation

Brazil’s WhatsApp election scandal should be a wake-up call particularly for other developing world democracies.

George H.W. Bush: America’s last foreign policy president

By James Goldgeier, The Conversation

George H.W. Bush was the last person elected president of the United States with any prior foreign policy experience.

Opinion: Virtual reality tours give rural students a glimpse of college life

By Carol Cutler White, The Conversation

A federally funded program is trying to increase high school graduation, college readiness and college enrollment at low resource high schools.

We found grizzly, black and polar bears together for the first time

By Douglas Clark, The Conversation

North America’s three bear species — black bears, grizzly bears and polar bears — don’t typically live in the same place. But in Wapusk National Park, on the west coast of Hudson Bay in northern Manitoba, all three bears were…

From shell-shock to PTSD, a century of invisible war trauma

By MaryCatherine McDonald, Marisa Brandt, Robyn Bluhm, The Conversation

We now know that what these combat veterans were facing was likely what today we call post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. We are now better able to recognize it, and treatments have certainly advanced, but we still don’t have a…

Marijuana expands into 3 more states, but nationwide legalization remains unlikely

By Daniel J. Mallinson, Lee Hannah, The Conversation

Two-thirds of all U.S. states have legalized some kind of marijuana. The argument goes that its nationwide expansion is inevitable. Two marijuana policy researchers question that narrative.

Florida restores voting rights to 1.5 million citizens. Here’s why that could decrease crime

By Victoria Shineman, The Conversation

Research shows when ex-offenders regain their voting rights, they can became more trusting of government and the criminal justice system.

100 years later, the madness of daylight saving time endures

By Michael Downing, The Conversation

One hundred years after Congress passed the first daylight saving legislation, more and more people are doubting the wisdom of changing the clocks.

What history reveals about surges in anti-Semitism and anti-immigrant sentiments

By Ingrid Anderson, The Conversation

The modern outpouring of anti-immigrant and anti-Semitic sentiment is reminiscent of the political climate during the years between the first and second world wars in the U.S.

Georgia election fight shows that black voter suppression, a southern tradition, still flourishes

By Frederick Knight, The Conversation

Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp has been sued after an Associated Press investigation revealed that his office suppressed 53,000 voter registrations – most of them filed by African-Americans.