Political CSR: why companies and foreign governments give to foundations like Clinton’s
By Archie B Carroll, University of Georgia
Questions are being raised about the purpose and possible influence of corporate and foreign government donations to the...
Guilty Pleasures: father of the modern western, king of crime
By Neil Sammells, Bath Spa University
Think of what you skip reading a novel: thick paragraphs of prose you can see have too many words...
McCarthy sex toy sculpture Tree piques prickly French right
By Russell Williams, University of London Institute in Paris
Paul McCarthy, the granddaddy of shock conceptual art, has gone and done it again. In a...
The DEA’s Facebook Impersonator and More in MuckReads Weekly
by Amanda Zamora ProPublica, Oct. 10, 2014, 1:28 p.m.
The DEA impersonated a woman on Facebook without her knowledge, and the Justice Department is OK...
What do world university rankings actually mean?
By Steven C. Ward, Western Connecticut State University
From the “best beaches” to the “best slice of pizza” to the best hospital to have cardiac...
Megacity drought: Sao Paulo withers after dry ‘wet season’
Leila Carvalho, University of California, Santa Barbara
Exceptional drought, extreme temperatures, unprecedented drops in reservoir levels and threatening water shortages for millions of people have...
You’re not crazy: Recovery from trauma is different for everybody
Jeannie D DiClementi, Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne
The very public trials of the Boston Marathon bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and the Colorado theater shooting suspect,...
What will happen when the US Fed starts hiking rates?
By W David McCausland, University of Aberdeen
As the US economy emerges from recession, the prospect of the US Federal Reserve raising interest rates grabs...
