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Mayorkas impeached: Is Congress on a witch hunt? 5 ways to judge whether oversight is legitimate or politicized

  • Written by Claire Leavitt, Assistant Professor of Government, Smith College
imageHouse Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), right, leaves the U.S. Capitol after the House voted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on February 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

After a failed vote to impeach him the previous week, Republicans in the House of Representatives mustered the barest...

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Immigrants do work that might not otherwise get done – bolstering the US economy

  • Written by Ramya Vijaya, Professor of Economics, Stockton University
imageHundreds protested peacefully in Immokalee, Fla., against a state law enacted in 2023 that imposes restrictions on undocumented immigrants.AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell

Although Congress is failing to pass laws to restrict the number of migrants arriving in the U.S., a majority of Americans – about 6 in 10 – believe there’s an...

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Why is free time still so elusive?

  • Written by Gary Cross, Distinguished Professor of Modern History, Penn State
imageMassive gains in productivity haven't led to more time free from work.J Studios/DigitalVision via Getty Images

There have been massive gains in productivity over the past century.

So why are people still working so hard for so long?

Output per worker increased by almost 300% between 1950 and 2018 in the U.S. The standard American workweek,...

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Saving the news media means moving beyond the benevolence of billionaires

  • Written by Rodney Benson, Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University
imageBillionaire media owners can't change inhospitable market dynamics.Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

For the journalism industry, 2024 is off to a brutal start.

Most spectacularly, the Los Angeles Times recently slashed more than 20% of its newsroom.

Though trouble had long been brewing, the layoffs were particularly disheartening...

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Electric vehicles are suddenly hot − but the industry has traveled a long road to relevance

  • Written by Hovig Tchalian, Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship, University of Southern California
imageEverything old is new again.Simon Skafar/E+/Getty Images

In 2023, more than 7% of cars sold in the United States were electric vehicles. In some parts of the world, such as Norway, the percentage was a whopping 20%. In California, where I live, almost 60% of people looking for a car in 2021 said they would at least consider getting an EV.

This...

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Why having human remains land on the Moon poses difficult questions for members of several religions

  • Written by Joanne M. Pierce, Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross

Sending human remains to the Moon on the first commercial lunar lander, Peregrine 1, on Jan. 8, 2024, along with scientific instruments, caused a controversy.

Buu Nygren, president of the Navajo Nation, objected, saying that “the moon holds a sacred place” in Navajo and other tribal traditions and should not be defiled in this way. The...

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Global health research suffers from a power imbalance − decolonizing mentorship can help level the playing field

  • Written by Oluwafemi Atanda Adeagbo, Assistant Professor of Public Health, University of Iowa
imageEffective collaboration requires addressing hierarchical mindsets.Maryna Terletska/Moment via Getty Images

Mentorship is a cornerstone of the infrastructure supporting global health. Transferring knowledge, developing skills and cultivating a supportive professional environment among researchers and clinicians around the world are key to achieving...

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Immigration reform has always been tough, and rarely happens in election years - 4 things to know

  • Written by Daniel Tichenor, Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon
imageMigrants cross the border from Mexico into Texas on Feb. 6, 2024. Christian Torres/Anadolu via Getty Images

Immigration is already a major polarizing issue in the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Arrests for illegal border crossings from Mexico reached an all-time high in December 2023, and cities like New York and Chicago are struggling to provide...

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In the face of severe challenges, democracy is under stress – but still supported – across Latin America and the Caribbean

  • Written by Noam Lupu, Associate Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of LAPOP Lab, Vanderbilt University
imageProtesters in El Salvador declare 'Yes to democracy. No to authoritarianism' during a demonstration on Jan. 14, 2024.PHOTOGRAFIA/Getty Images

Threats to economic and physical security have become persistent and pervasive across Latin America and the Caribbean – and that is affecting the way people view the state of democracy in the region.

Thos...

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Philadelphia hopes year-round schooling can catch kids up to grade level – will it make a difference?

  • Written by Daniel H. Robinson, Professor, College of Education, University of Texas at Arlington
imageYear-round schooling can assist low-income parents in need of child care.kali9/E+ Collection via Getty Images

Upon becoming mayor of Philadelphia, Cherelle Parker announced that she will establish a working group on full-day and year-round schooling – an idea she had supported while campaigning. The group will develop a strategy to keep...

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  2. Our robot harvests cotton by reaching out and plucking it, like a lizard’s tongue snatching flies
  3. Early polls can offer some insight into candidates’ weak points – but are extremely imprecise
  4. Are you really in love? How expanding your love lexicon can change your relationships and how you see yourself
  5. AI ‘companions’ promise to combat loneliness, but history shows the dangers of one-way relationships
  6. Family caregivers face financial burdens, isolation and limited resources − a social worker explains how to improve quality of life for this growing population
  7. A brief history of Dearborn, Michigan – the first Arab-American majority city in the US
  8. Can anyone make a citizen’s arrest? The history and legalities of catching criminals yourself
  9. Lorne Michaels, the man behind the curtain at ‘Saturday Night Live,’ has been minting comedy gold for nearly 50 years
  10. Are you seeing news reports of voting problems? 4 essential reads on election disinformation
  11. Pakistan’s post-election crisis – how anti-army vote may deliver an unstable government that falls into the military’s hands
  12. Atlantic Ocean is headed for a tipping point − once melting glaciers shut down the Gulf Stream, we would see extreme climate change within decades, study shows
  13. Love songs in Hindu devotion – the Tamil poets who took on the female voice to express their intense longing for the divine
  14. Love may be timeless, but the way we talk about it isn’t − the ancient Greeks’ ideas about desire challenge modern-day readers, lovers and even philosophers
  15. Lack of access to health care is partly to blame for skyrocketing HIV rates among gay Black men
  16. Ads, food and gambling galore − 5 essential reads for the Super Bowl
  17. Some of the Renaissance’s most romantic love poems weren’t for lovers
  18. From church to the mosque, faith and friends help Iowa’s African immigrants and refugees build a sense of home
  19. Israel is a Jewish nation, but its population is far from a monolith
  20. Why John Dewey’s vision for education and democracy still resonates today
  21. Supreme Court skeptical that Colorado − or any state − should decide for whole nation whether Trump is eligible for presidency
  22. FCC bans robocalls using deepfake voice clones − but AI-generated disinformation still looms over elections
  23. ‘Look for a reversal in a fairly short period of time’ − former federal judge expects Supreme Court will keep Trump on Colorado ballot
  24. El Niño is starting to lose strength after fueling a hot, stormy year, but it’s still powerful − an atmospheric scientist explains what’s ahead for 2024
  25. Sugary handshakes are how cells talk to each other − understanding these name tags can clarify how the immune system works
  26. Anger, sadness, boredom, anxiety – emotions that feel bad can be useful
  27. The myth of men’s full-time employment
  28. The Super Bowl gets the Vegas treatment, with 1 in 4 American adults expected to gamble on the big game
  29. Heart attacks, cancer, dementia, premature deaths: 4 essential reads on the health effects driving EPA’s new fine particle air pollution standard
  30. Americans spend millions of dollars on Valentine’s Day roses. I calculated exactly how much
  31. Breastfeeding benefits mothers as much as babies, but public health messaging often only tells half of the story
  32. Russia’s fanning of anti-Israeli sentiment takes dark detour into Holocaust denialism
  33. What’s sociology? A sociologist explains why Florida’s college students should get the chance to learn how social forces affect everyone’s lives
  34. DOJ funding pipeline subsidizes questionable big data surveillance technologies
  35. Could flag football one day leapfrog tackle football in popularity?
  36. George Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ is a story of jazz, race and the fraught notion of America’s melting pot
  37. About a third of employees have faced bullying at work – here’s how to recognize and deal with it
  38. Power outages leave poor communities in the dark longer: Evidence from 15M outages raises questions about recovery times
  39. The divine matchmaker in Chinese mythology − Old Man Under the Moon − who helps couples find love
  40. Synthetic human embryos let researchers study early development while sidestepping ethical and logistical hurdles
  41. Biden’s ‘hard look’ at liquefied natural gas exports raises a critical question: How does natural gas fit with US climate goals?
  42. Super Bowl party foods can deliver political bite – choose wisely
  43. Indonesians head to polls amid concerns over declining democracy, election integrity and vote buying
  44. Michigan mother convicted of manslaughter for school shootings by her son – after buying him a gun and letting him keep it unsecured
  45. More than 78 ‘friends’ of the Supreme Court offer advice on the 14th Amendment and Trump’s eligibility
  46. Trump was not king and can be prosecuted for crimes committed while president: Appeals court places limits on immunity
  47. Supreme Court heads into uncharted, dangerous territory as it considers Trump insurrection case
  48. Dietary supplements and protein powders fall under a ‘wild west’ of unregulated products that necessitate caveats and caution
  49. Dietary supplements and protein powders fall under a ‘wild west’ of products that necessitate caveats and caution
  50. Black travelers want authentic engagement, not checkboxes