'The NCAA will cash in'

'This billion-dollar sports behemoth should not be a nonprofit'

Despite its "nonprofit status, the National Collegiate Athletic Association is big business," says Scott Hodge. The NCAA is "lobbying Congress for antitrust and labor protections," but "any deal should require the NCAA to shed its tax-exempt status and reincorporate as the for-profit sports and entertainment behemoth it has become." It's "time for the NCAA to go pro." In "form and function, these organizations are no different than the major professional sports leagues."

'Wildfires are inevitable, but we can learn to control them'

There is "no doubt that the costs of wildfires for people and the planet are immense," says Zhimin Wu. But "fires have been part of the Earth's ecosystem for hundreds of millions of years." Conduc