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Topic: The Conversation (page 71)

FILE - This Tuesday, July 31, 2007, file photo shows the entrance to an Advance America payday lending office in Harrisburg, Pa. The lenders who advance people money on their paychecks charge exorbitant interest rates that often snare the most vulnerable customers in a cycle of debt, the industry’s critics have long said. Yet even consumer advocates who loathe the industry admit it fulfills a need: Providing small amounts of cash quickly to people who can’t qualify for credit cards or a bank loan. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File) (AP)

Payday lenders embrace installment loans

Paige Marta Skiba, Caroline Malone - The Conversation
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What’s the value of your dog’s life?

Simon F. Haeder, Deven Carlson, Joe Ripberger - The Conversation
(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Why is it so hard to stop eating?

Tera Fazzino, Kaitlyn Rohde - The Conversation
Syrian refugee children run at an informal refugee camp, at Al-Marj town in Bekaa valley, east Lebanon Lebanon, Saturday, April 8, 2017. For the millions of Syrian refugees scattered across camps and illegal settlements across the region, the chemical attack on a town in northern Syria and subsequent U.S. strike was a rare moment when the world briefly turned its attention to Syria, before turning away again.(AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) (AP)

Climate drove Syrian refugees to Lebanon

Hussein A. Amery - The Conversation
(AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

Purdue Pharma may become a public trust

David Herzberg - The Conversation
(Gabriel Sotelo/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Trump's currency war

Farok J. Contractor - The Conversation
"A Christmas Story" (MGM)

What makes Christmas movies so popular

S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate - The Conversation
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. (Genya Savilov/AFP via Getty Images)

Putin, Zelensky meet for peace talks

Erik C. Nisbet, Olga Kamenchuk - The Conversation
(AP/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

The tricky ethics of Project Nightingale

Cason Schmit - The Conversation
Rick Perry (Getty/Aaron P. Bernstein)

How INC challenges religious landscape

Brad Christerson, Richard Flory - The Conversation
(AP/Toby Talbot)

Xmas tree shopping is harder than ever

James Robert Farmer - The Conversation
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Is digital addiction ruining your life?

Terri R. Kurtzberg - The Conversation
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Opinions on the death penalty

Kevin O'Neal Cokley - The Conversation
(Getty/MarioGuti)

A momentous transition

David M. Hart - The Conversation
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Political hashtags: Are they effective?

Eugenia Ha Rim Rho - The Conversation
Ted Danson and Kristen Bell in "The Good Place" (Colleen Hayes/NBC)

"The Good Place": Second chance at life?

Matthew Robert Anderson, Christine Jamieson - The Conversation
An empty classroom (Getty/ martinedoucet)

Teaching impeachment in the classroom

Paula McAvoy - The Conversation
(Getty Images/istockphoto)

Reheating "with art and discernment"

Samantha Presnal - The Conversation
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Count your neurons and your blessings

Suzana Herculano-Houzel - The Conversation
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Thank fungi for cheese, wine and beer

Antonis Rokas - The Conversation
(Getty Images/istockphoto)

The benefits of gratitude

Richard Gunderman - The Conversation
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Trump admin unveils price transparency

Neeraj Sood - The Conversation
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Mothers in prison this Thanksgiving

Jill McCorkel - The Conversation
Pro-Brexit supporters protest outside the Houses of Parliament in London, Monday, March 18, 2019. (AP/Matt Dunham)

Brexit affects Northern Ireland, too

Donald Beaudette, Andrew Kirkpatrick - The Conversation
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