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US and Iran: A brief history of how decades of mistrust and bad blood led to open warfare

  • Written by Jeffrey Fields, Professor of the Practice of International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
imageAn Iranian walks past an anti-U.S. mural in Tehran on April 5, 2025.Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images

With U.S. bombs raining down on Iran and Tehran’s leaders responding by hitting targets across the Persian Gulf and restricting transit through the Strait of Hormuz, it is fair to suggest that the present moment represents a low in relations...

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What a US attorney general actually does – a law professor spells it out

  • Written by Jennifer Selin, Associate Professor of Law, Arizona State University
imageU.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi answers questions from the media at the U.S. Capitol on March 18, 2026.Matt McClain/Getty Images

President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi on April 2, 2026, only 14 months after she was sworn into office, making her time in the role the shortest in 60 years.

While much recent attention has focused on...

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Toxic dust from California’s shrinking Salton Sea is harming children’s lung growth – our study tracked the impact in 700 kids

  • Written by Jill Johnston, Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupation Health, University of California, Irvine; University of Southern California
imageThe Salton Sea is shrinking and releasing toxic dust from its lake bed.Jennifer Davis/iStock/Getty Images Plus

Southern California’s Salton Sea was once a resort playground, with sunny beaches, celebrities and people waterskiing on the vast inland lake in the 1950s and ’60s.

Today, those resorts are long gone, replaced by a drying and...

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Supreme Court ruling on Colorado conversion therapy case is not a clear win for conservatives

  • Written by Kevin Cope, Professor of Law, University of Virginia
imageThe U.S. Supreme Court found a Colorado law banning conversion therapy for gay and transgender minors likely violates free speech. Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images

In an 8-1 decision authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the Supreme Court held on March 31, 2026, that a Colorado law prohibiting licensed counselors from performing “conversion therapy&rd...

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Why the manosphere has an antisemitism problem

  • Written by Miriam Eve Mora, Managing Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute, University of Michigan
imageFitness content is big in the 'manosphere,' but extreme ideologies make appearances, too.ljubaphoto/E+ via Getty Images

Toward the end of Netflix’s “Into the Manosphere,” documentary filmmaker Louis Theroux chats in Marbella, Spain, with British influencer Ed Matthews.

“The people who run the world, they don’t have our...

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Why Americans give: New research finds 5 distinct profiles for generosity

  • Written by George E. Mitchell, Professor of Public and International Affairs, Baruch College, CUNY
imageAbout 82% of Americans said in response to a survey that they give to charity or to people in need.Overearth/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Given that fewer Americans are donating and volunteering and that people in the U.S. appear to be losing trust in one another, it may seem like generosity has eroded in the United States.

The nation’s politic...

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The costume maker who convinced Hersheypark to embrace candy mascots and ‘chocolatize’ their old-timey theme park

  • Written by John Haddad, Professor of American Studies, Penn State
imageThe park, with its name originally two words, Hershey Park, opened in the early 1900s when Milton Hershey built it for his chocolate factory workers and their families.Mitchell Layton/Getty Images

A theme park has to have an identity. If you want to know the two things that Hersheypark does especially well, just approach the entrance.

There you will...

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Pam Bondi’s extreme political loyalty to Trump wasn’t enough to save her job

  • Written by Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
imagePresident Donald Trump participates in a roundtable discussion in Memphis, Tenn., with Attorney General Pam Bondi on March 23, 2026.AP Photo/Bruce Newman

After President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi on April 2, 2026, news reports suggested that she fell from grace, not for being too independent, but for not being effective enough...

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Iran’s president appeals to Americans − but does his office still hold any real power?

  • Written by Roxane Razavi, Visiting scholar in contemporary Middle Eastern history, Princeton University
imageIranian President Masoud Pezeshkian attends the Quds Day march in Tehran on March 13, 2026. Hassan Ghaedi/Anadolu via Getty Images

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian penned an open letter to “the people of the United States” on April 1, 2026, in which he implored Americans to “look beyond” misinformation that portrayed Iran...

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  6. How Iranian hackers pose a threat to US critical infrastructure
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  8. Irresponsible parental gun ownership could become a factor in custody disputes
  9. Better urban design could help save Florida’s threatened Big Cypress fox squirrel
  10. Bypass the Strait of Hormuz with nuclear explosives? The US studied that in Panama and Colombia in the 1960s
  11. AI’s fluency in other languages hides a Western worldview that can mislead users − a scholar of Indonesian society explains
  12. 75 years after she led a student strike that helped end school segregation, Barbara Rose Johns now stands in the US Capitol where Robert E. Lee once did
  13. Trump risks falling in to the ‘asymmetric resolve’ trap in Iran − just as presidents before him did elsewhere
  14. Why Iran targeted Amazon data centers and what that does – and doesn’t – change about warfare
  15. The Department of Justice is suing states for sensitive voter data − an election law scholar explains why federal efforts are facing resistance
  16. Why Michael Jackson’s daughter, Paris, won’t stop ‘til she gets enough from his estate
  17. You’re not going to be alone in national parks this summer – enjoy the company
  18. Winter’s alarmingly low snowpack offers a glimpse of the changing rhythm of water in the western US
  19. Federal election observers once played a key role in securing voting rights for all − but times have changed
  20. The NFL draft brings economic gains – and hidden public safety costs
  21. What Detroit can learn from participatory budgeting processes in NYC, Boston and Brazil
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  23. How long young cancer patients survive often depends on the insurance they have
  24. Astronaut Victor Glover is the latest in a long line of Black American explorers − including York, the enslaved man who played a key role in the Lewis and Clark expedition
  25. ‘Project Hail Mary’ demonstrates how intellectual humility can be a guiding force for scientists and astronauts
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  27. How California’s war on smog and its ambitious car pollution rules made everyone’s air cleaner
  28. How polling failures, gambling legalization and political gridlock paved the way for the explosive rise of prediction markets
  29. From youth bulges to graying societies: The demographic dynamics that are upending the world
  30. Trump Fed pick Kevin Warsh could shake up the central bank with his ‘family fight’ model
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  35. Decades of hostility between Iran and the US were preceded by a little-remembered century-long friendship
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  37. Basic income’s appeal today is similar to its roots in 18th-century England – it’s a way to compensate people for a common good taken for private gain
  38. Are multiverses real? An astrophysicist explains why it depends on how you define ‘real’
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