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Editor's note
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Experts in political rhetoric Christian Lundberg and Joshua Gunn break down Donald Trump’s first speech as president of the United States. They see glimmers of Reagan-esque optimism in the 45th president’s inaugural address but in the end Trump reverted to many of his themes from the campaign trail: gloom, division and scapegoating. “If there was uncertainty during the transition,” they write, “there's now even more uncertainty about how President Trump will govern.”
Over two hundred people were arrested Friday at inauguration protests. Today, as the Women’s March on Washington gets underway, philosopher Jeremy David Bendik-Keymer looks at how the power of protest can help save democratic values.
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Nick Lehr
Editor, Arts and Culture
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Top story
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President Donald Trump delivers his inaugural address after being sworn in as the 45th president of the United States.
Patrick Semansky/AP Photo
Christian Lundberg, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill; Joshua Gunn, University of Texas at Austin
An address that's normally a call for unity instead mirrored the rhetoric of his campaign: unfocused, contradictory and divisive.
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Politics + Society
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Jeremy David Bendik-Keymer, Case Western Reserve University
On the face of it, our democratic values are in trouble. But we should be hopeful about the power of protest.
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Brian Porter-Szücs, University of Michigan
An historian based in Poland sees many similarities between Trump and authoritarian nationalists like Poland's Jarosław Kaczyński. But the parallels only go so far.
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Sharece Thrower, Vanderbilt University
A scholar of presidential power looks at personality, rationality and the institution of the presidency for clues about what the incoming administration can accomplish.
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Health + Medicine
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Miranda Yaver, Yale University
Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) has written a proposal to repeal Obamacare, a program under the Department of Health and Human Services, which he would head. Here are things to consider for his next hearing.
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Nia Heard-Garris, University of Michigan; Danielle Erkoboni, University of Pennsylvania
Children learn hatred and violence, two pediatricians write, and they also learn love and respect. As we celebrate Martin Luther King Day, the two doctors offer things you can do to teach tolerance.
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Margaret Greenwood-Ericksen, University of Michigan; Mahshid Abir, University of Michigan
Repeal and replacement of Obamacare would hurt rural health care, causing closure of hospitals and physician practices. What does this mean for a group of people whom Donald Trump has pledged to help?
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Arts + Culture
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Michael Flaherty, Eckerd College
Time is fixed, but people experience hours, months and days in very different ways. One researcher has spent decades exploring this universal phenomenon.
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Lauren Griffin, University of Florida; Annie Neimand, University of Florida
If someone sees or hears something they don't want to believe...they probably won't believe it.
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Environment + Energy
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Arvind P. Ravikumar, Stanford University
Infrared cameras are the technology of choice for detecting gas leaks across the US. New research shows that these cameras can be quite inaccurate, and leaks can persist without being detected.
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Michael A. Rawlins, University of Massachusetts Amherst
For the third consecutive year, it's the hottest year ever. A climate scientist explains how these predictions are made and why they're completely different from forecasting the weather.
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Economy + Business
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Elizabeth C. Tippett, University of Oregon
We haven't had a major government ethics scandal since Watergate, which means Americans have forgotten how bad it can be. That's why Trump may end up accidentally reminding us.
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Marcelle Arak, University of Colorado Denver; Sheila Tschinkel, Emory University
Trump has vowed to use new bidding procedures to curb the soaring cost of new drugs. There's a better solution, however, that doesn't risk also curbing the development of lifesaving treatments.
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Sandra Waddock, Boston College
Conservatives have been very successful framing a compelling narrative about who they are and what they stand for. Progressives will have a tough four years if they don't do the same.
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Science + Technology
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William Bentley, University of Maryland; Gregory Payne, University of Maryland
New research works out how to translate between the language of biology – molecules – and the language of microelectronics – electrons. It could open the door to new kinds of biosensors and therapeutics.
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Zuleyma Tang-Martinez, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Victorian attitudes influenced what scientists thought they were observing about sexual behaviors in the animal world. But modern techniques reveal the myth for what it is.
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Sanjay Goel, University at Albany, State University of New York
Government agencies and contractors are now less trusting of their workers, and keeping a much closer eye on them, both on and off the job.
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