Safety technology: Reducing risk of a traumatic head injury starts with picking the right bicycle helmet
By Kwong Ming (KM) Tse, Senior lecturer in Department of Mechanical Engineering and Product Design Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology If you ride a bike and want to cut your risk of traumatic head injury, you should wear a helmet. A major review of 40...
Wisconsin’s Catch-22: State dairy industry depends on undocumented immigrants who cannot legally drive
Central Wisconsin’s Clark County is home to more dairy farms than any other county in the state, which bills itself as America’s Dairyland. Its identity is so tied to the dairy industry that a 16-foot-tall, black-and-white talking Holstein stands outside downtown...
Consumer protection: Federal regulation of AI takes a step forward with FTC probe of OpenAI
By Anjana Susarla, Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University The Federal Trade Commission has launched an investigation of ChatGPT maker OpenAI for potential violations of consumer protection laws. The FTC sent the company a 20-page demand for...
Missing the mark: Why oddball rebranding is hardly unusual for a big tech company
By Matthew Pittman, Assistant Professor of Advertising and Public Relations, University of Tennessee Twitter has swapped the fluffy bird that used to symbolize the social media platform for a spindly black X. Ditching the company’s well-known logo and changing its...
Why voting went down in Black areas of the South as Confederate-glorifying monuments went up
By Alexander N. Taylor, PhD Candidate in Economics, George Mason University Confederate monuments burst into public consciousness in 2015 when a shooting at a historically Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, instigated the first broad calls for their removal....
Lessons from Madison: How developers can reclaim urban space from traffic by reducing reliance on cars
By Chris McCahill, Managing Director, State Smart Transportation Initiative, University of Wisconsin-Madison The U.S. has a car-centric culture that is inseparable from the way its communities are built. One striking example is the presence of parking lots and...
Politics and profits: Why progressives embrace Disney in the battle with DeSantis over LGBTQ+ rights
By Steven Gerencser, Professor of Political Science, Indiana University The battle between The Walt Disney Company and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over LGBTQ rights and whether those rights should be acknowledged or taught in schools has spurred an unlikely alliance...
Reagan’s Federalism: How the “rights of states” was confirmed by Georgia’s indictment of Trump
By Stefanie Lindquist, Foundation Professor of Law and Political Science, Arizona State University For the past 50 years, Republican policymakers and judges have sought to bolster federalism in the United States. Since Ronald Reagan’s first inaugural address in 1981,...
Fani Willis: Why the Black female prosecutor faces an unequal burden of both racist and sexist attacks
By Bev-Freda Jackson, Adjunct Professorial Lecturer, American University School of Public Affairs On the day he was indicted on financial fraud charges in a New York City courtroom, former U.S. President Donald Trump launched an attack against Fulton County District...
War on Woke: DeSantis’ push to rewrite history echoes the ideology of authoritarian countries
By Rochelle Anne Davis, Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Georgetown University; and Eileen Kane, Professor of History, Connecticut College A Florida law that took effect on July 1, 2023, restricts how educators in the state’s public colleges and universities can...
How the laws to protect Black voters from the Ku Klux Klan are being used hold Trump accountable
By Joseph Patrick Kelly, Professor of Literature and Director of Irish and Irish American Studies, College of Charleston In the indictment against former President Donald Trump and his role in the January 6 violent attack against the U.S. Capitol, special prosecutor...
While Trump complains of unfair treatment it is far better than what most other criminal defendants get
By Christopher Robertson, Professor of Law, Boston University; and Russell M. Gold, Associate Professor of Law, University of Alabama Former President Donald Trump often complains that he is being treated unfairly by the prosecutors charging him with crimes. Trump is...
