Miller-McCune Staff

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Results of a survey from the American Association of School Administrators shows how K-12 school officials across the country made cuts to their schools' programs.

From innovation in architecture and robotics to mobile apps and interactive games, technology is reshaping our understanding of and approach to world hunger.

In this week’s audio newsletter, we discuss political missteps and the norms of masculinity. In addition, Emily Badger looks into Meredith Attwell Baker and reforming the FCC.

In this week’s audio newsletter, we discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In addition, Emily Badger looks at perceptions in the Muslim world.

In this week’s audio newsletter, we discuss high gas prices, while Emily Badger looks at the possibility of sunsetting some provisions in the Patriot Act.

In this week’s audio newsletter, we discuss immigration reform and Emily Badger looks at a proposed rule for U.S. Agency for International Development.

In this week’s audio newsletter, we discuss the death of Osama bin Laden. In addition, Emily Badger looks at WikiLeaks and the curious case of Julian Assange.

In this week’s audio newsletter, we discuss how media influence the United States' national school lunch program while Emily Badger looks at cap-and-trade legislation.

In this week’s audio newsletter, we discuss Chinese artist and political dissident Ai Weiwei, and Idea Lobby author Emily Badger looks at a proposal for cybersecurity.

In this week’s audio newsletter, we talk with T.C. Boyle about how he employs futility and progress in his latest novel, When the Killing’s Done. In addition, Emily Badger looks at the latest debate in patent law involving human genes.

In this week’s podcast newsletter, Emily Badger examines the implications of a government shutdown. In addition, we open with a discussion of how technology and artistic effort coexist uneasily.

In this week’s audio newsletter, we discuss the fracas in Wisconsin and the start of the baseball season. In addition, Idea Lobby blogger Emily Badger examines academic freedom.

In this week’s audio newsletter, we discuss the situation in Libya. In addition, Emily Badger examines how the military is responding to the repeal of 'don't ask, don't tell.'

In this week’s audio newsletter, we discuss the horrific events in Japan, while Emily Badger examines the state of nuclear energy regulation in the U.S.

In this week’s podcast, we discuss the juvenile justice system. In addition, Emily Badger examines the practice of slugging for the work-day commute.

We provide some background and context for the nuclear-power crisis in Japan.

In this week’s Wonking Week podcast, we discuss the politics of Dr. Seuss. In addition, Emily Badger examines collective bargaining.

In this week’s audio newsletter, we discuss inventive memory tricks and the psychology behind last names. In addition, Emily Badger examines funding models for PBS.

In this week’s audio newsletter, we discuss the anxieties of gift giving on Valentine’s Day. In addition, Emily Badger examines the U.S. government’s awkward relationship with cyberspace.

In this week’s audio newsletter, we discuss the perilous state of the arts (and our economy). In addition, Emily Badger examines new plans announced by the FCC to bring broadband access to all.

In this week’s audio newsletter, we tackle science and technology. In addition, Emily Badger examines changes in the food industry.

In this week’s audio newsletter, we discuss teen pregnancy and the NFL’s big game. In addition, Emily Badger examines developments in the auto industry that may create genuinely smart cars.

In this week’s audio newsletter, we discuss the key to a happy marriage. In addition, Emily Badger examines Citizen’s United: the Supreme Court case decision now pitting fears of corruption from special interest against fears of tyranny from the majority.

In this week’s audio newsletter, we discuss the buzz around decibel levels on wind turbine farms and introduce a new segment on neuroscience called ‘Where’s Your Head At?’ In addition, Emily Badger examines political rhetoric and its effect on political violence.

This week, we discuss the rules of attraction: what drives our romantic interest. In addition, Emily Badger examines new house rules governing the 112th Congress.

This week, we discuss the so-called tax on soda, while Emily Badger talks about new year’s resolutions.

This week we discuss awkward silences, while Emily Badger examines the U.S. Civil War and the mythology that grown up around it.

This week we discuss a new era of anti-Semitism, while Emily Badger examines voting.

This week we discuss buying freedom and public censorship, while Emily Badger examines resegregation.

This week we discuss the power of market branding, while Emily Badger examines racial profiling.

This week we discuss symbolism in modern holiday celebrations, while Emily Badger examines congressional reapportionment.

This week, Emily Badger examines a new program to help fund social programs, while Tom Jacobs and Jessica Hilo discuss changes to the warning on cigarette packs.

This week we discuss how using predators' traits may reduce mosquito numbers where we don't want them, while Emily Badger examines a new program to push successful women into running for office.

Emily Badger examines just how negative advertising in the U.S. midterms was, and why that might not be a bad thing, while Tom Jacobs explains that puritanism may be bred in the American bone.

In this week's podcast we look at the relative success rates of charter schools while our Emily Badger discusses the failure of the administration's commitment to science to take hold.

In this week's podcast we look at how social networking site may reveal the reality of how we care for our bodies, while Emily Badger discusses a new program to provide a jump start to electric cars.

In this week's podcast newsletter, we look at the ABCs of spelling bees and the FTC's new focus on curbing deceptive 'greenwashing.'

In this week's podcast, learn how an experiment that involved skipping rope demonstrated the value of self-doubt, while Emily Badger examines the idea of taxing drivers by the miles they travel, not the fuel they use.

This week our Tom Jacobs discusses the fallacy that our Facebook friends are our political fellow travelers, while Emily Badger plunders Uncle Sam's video cabinet.

In this week's podcast, we look at what can be learned by analyzing artistic preferences, and about efforts to create a cyber 'do not track' list.

In this week's podcast Miller-McCune looks at federal employees working from home and older people living longer through increased volunteer work.

In this week's podcast, Tom Jacobs and Jessica Hilo rip through a slew of quick fixes, including looks at the 14th amendment, the Ground Zero mosque, the role of public defenders and cyber warfare.

In this week's podcast, we examine how anger can stimulate creativity and look at two aspects of voter behavior -- how the polling place affects our actions and how desperation affects whether we actually participate.

In this week's podcast, Emily Badger reviews the rationale behind asking U.S. troops about their opinions on gays serving openly, and fellow Jessica Hilo examines promising advances in research on aging.

In this week's podcast, Tom Jacobs discusses the Prozac-like qualities of classical music and Emily Badger reveals that some research tagged as wasteful actually has solid scientific applications.

In our weekly podcast Emily Badger reviews her reporting on the military's oil use and Tom Jacobs discusses the how luxuriating in thoughts of tobacco may be a better way to quit it.

In this week's podcast, Tom Jacobs and Melinda Burns discuss studies they reported on concerning gender differences in math and science, while Emily Badger examines the hubbub over the idea of government oversight of Google search algorithm.

In this week's podcast Tom Jacobs discusses how music creates a cooperative spirit and Emily Badger explains how the concerns over employment lead many to reject greater environmental or safety regulation that likely would benefit them.

In this week's podcast we listen to Emily Badger discussing the Presidential Records Act and Tom Jacobs on how "Lie to Me" make us worse at ferreting out the truth.