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The Supreme Court upholds free preventive care, but its future now rests in RFK Jr.’s hands

  • Written by Paul Shafer, Associate Professor of Health Law, Policy and Management, Boston University
imageThe Affordable Care Act has survived its fourth Supreme Court challenge. Ted Eytan via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY

On June 26, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a 6-3 ruling that preserves free preventive care under the Affordable Care Act, a popular benefit that helps approximately 150 million Americans stay healthy.

The case, Kennedy v....

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What damage did the US do to Iran’s nuclear program? Why it’s so hard to know

  • Written by Joshua Rovner, Associate Professor of International Relations, American University
imageGen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, describes the U.S. military attack on Iranian nuclear sites, which occurred on June 21, 2025, .AP Photo/Alex Brandon

The U.S. Air Force dropped a dozen ground-penetrating bombs, each weighing 30,000 pounds (13,607 kilograms), in a raid on Iran’s nuclear site at Fordo on June 21, 2025. The...

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The rule of law is key to capitalism − eroding it is bad news for American business

  • Written by Robert Bird, Professor of Business Law & Eversource Energy Chair in Business Ethics, University of Connecticut

Something dangerous is happening to the U.S. economy, and it’s not inflation or trade wars. Chaotic deregulation and the selective enforcement of laws have upended markets and investor confidence. At one point, the threat of tariffs and resulting chaos evaporated US$4 trillion in value in the U.S. stock market. This approach isn’t...

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Legal wrangling over estate of Jimmy Buffett turns his widow’s huge inheritance into a cautionary tale

  • Written by Reid Kress Weisbord, Distinguished Professor of Law and Judge Norma Shapiro Scholar, Rutgers University - Newark
imageMusician Jimmy Buffett and his wife, Jane Slagsvol, attend a Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts event in 2018 in New York. Evan Agostini/Invision via AP

Lawyers often tell their clients that everyone should have a will that clearly states who should inherit their assets after they die. But even having a will is not necessarily enough to avoid a...

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AI is advancing even faster than sci-fi visionaries like Neal Stephenson imagined

  • Written by Rizwan Virk, Faculty Associate, PhD Candidate in Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology, Arizona State University
imageIn Stephenson's novel 'The Diamond Age,' a device called the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer offers emotional, social and intellectual support.Christopher Michel/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Every time I read about another advance in AI technology, I feel like another figment of science fiction moves closer to reality.

Lately, I’ve been...

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Despite claims they’d move overseas after the election, most Americans are staying put

  • Written by Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels, Honorary Reader in MIgration and Politics, University of Kent
imageNot that many people are preparing to leave the U.S.gerenme/E+ via Getty Images

Based on pronouncements in 2024, you might think now is the time to see U.S. citizens streamingout of the country. Months before the 2024 presidential election, Americans were saying they would leave should candidate Donald Trump win the election. Gallup polling in 2024...

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Philadelphia’s $2B affordable housing plan relies heavily on municipal bonds, which can come with hidden costs for taxpayers

  • Written by Jade Craig, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Mississippi
imageThe Parker administration says it will issue $800 million in bonds over the next four years to fund affordable housing.Jeff Fusco/The Conversation, CC BY-NC-SA

Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker’s Housing Opportunities Made Easy initiative, which was included in the city budget passed June 12, 2025, is an ambitious effort to address the...

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Humans and animals can both think logically − but testing what kind of logic they’re using is tricky

  • Written by Olga Lazareva, Professor of Psychology, Drake University
imageFor some mental processes, humans and animals likely follow similar lines of thinking.Catherine Falls Commercial/Moment via Getty Images

Can a monkey, a pigeon or a fish reason like a person? It’s a question scientists have been testing in increasingly creative ways – and what we’ve found so far paints a more complicated picture...

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Mexican flags flown during immigration protests bother white people a lot more than other Americans

  • Written by Edward D. Vargas, Associate Professor, School of Transborder Studies, Arizona State University
image Protesters wave the Mexican flag in Los Angeles on June 9, 2025.Luke Johnson/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted a series of raids throughout Los Angeles and Southern California in early June 2025, sparking protests in downtown Los Angeles and other cities, including New York, Chicago an...

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Keeping brain-dead pregnant women on life support raises ethical issues that go beyond abortion politics

  • Written by Lindsey Breitwieser, Assistant Professor of Gender & Women's Studies, Hollins University
imageLaws such as Georgia's LIFE Act can complicate ethical and legal decision-making in postmortem pregnancy. Darya Komarova/Moment via Getty Images

Adriana Smith, a 30-year-old woman from Georgia who had been declared brain-dead in February 2025, spent 16 weeks on life support while doctors worked to keep her body functioning well enough to support...

Read more: Keeping brain-dead pregnant women on life support raises ethical issues that go beyond abortion...

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  2. Pop, soda or coke? The fizzy history behind America’s favorite linguistic debate
  3. The hidden cost of convenience: How your data pulls in hundreds of billions of dollars for app and social media companies
  4. Why the US bombed a bunch of metal tubes − a nuclear engineer explains the importance of centrifuges to Iranian efforts to build nuclear weapons
  5. Bill Moyers’ journalism strengthened democracy by connecting Americans to ideas and each other, in a long and extraordinary career
  6. Invasive carp threaten the Great Lakes − and reveal a surprising twist in national politics
  7. 1 in 4 Americans reject evolution, a century after the Scopes monkey trial spotlighted the clash between science and religion
  8. Who’s the most American? Psychological studies show that many people are biased and think it’s a white English speaker
  9. Here’s a way to save lives, curb traffic jams and make commutes faster and easier − ban left turns at intersections
  10. Why the traditional college major may be holding students back in a rapidly changing job market
  11. What’s at risk for Arctic wildlife if Trump expands oil drilling in the fragile National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska
  12. 1 in 3 Florida third graders have untreated cavities – how parents can protect their children’s teeth
  13. How can the James Webb Space Telescope see so far?
  14. From the marriage contract to breaking the glass under the chuppah, many Jewish couples adapt their weddings to celebrate gender equality
  15. Universities in every state care for congressional papers that document US political history − federal cuts put their work at risk
  16. Iran emerged weakened and vulnerable after war with Israel − and that could mean trouble for country’s ethnic minorities
  17. Supreme Court upholds childproofing porn sites
  18. What the Supreme Court ruling against ‘universal injunctions’ means for court challenges to presidential actions
  19. Michelin Guide scrutiny could boost Philly tourism, but will it stifle chefs’ freedom to experiment and innovate?
  20. What Trump’s budget proposal says about his environmental values
  21. How Zohran Mamdani’s win in the New York City mayoral primary could ripple across the country
  22. Cyberattacks shake voters’ trust in elections, regardless of party
  23. Why energy markets fluctuate during an international crisis
  24. Scandinavia has its own dark history of assimilating Indigenous people, and churches played a role – but are apologizing
  25. Jews were barred from Spain’s New World colonies − but that didn’t stop Jewish and converso writers from describing the Americas
  26. Supreme Court rules that states may deny people covered by Medicaid the freedom to choose Planned Parenthood as their health care provider
  27. Toxic algae blooms are lasting longer than before in Lake Erie − why that’s a worry for people and pets
  28. Toxic algae blooms are lasting longer in Lake Erie − why that’s a worry for people and pets
  29. Natural hazards don’t disappear when the storm ends or the earthquake stops – they evolve
  30. Hurricane Helene set up future disasters, from landslides to flooding – cascading hazards like these are now upending risk models
  31. Grilling with lump charcoal: Is US-grown hardwood really in that bag?
  32. Uranium enrichment: A chemist explains how the surprisingly common element is processed to power reactors and weapons
  33. Yelp’s addition of a ‘Black-owned’ tag led to a slight drop in business ratings in Detroit
  34. Self-censorship and the ‘spiral of silence’: Why Americans are less likely to publicly voice their opinions on political issues
  35. Detroit restaurants identified as ‘Black-owned’ on Yelp saw a slight drop in business ratings
  36. Using TikTok could be making you more politically polarized, new study finds
  37. What if universal rental assistance were implemented to deal with the housing crisis?
  38. I’m a physician who has looked at hundreds of studies of vaccine safety, and here’s some of what RFK Jr. gets wrong
  39. Israel-Iran war recalls the 2003 US invasion of Iraq – a war my undergraduate students see as a relic of the past
  40. A preservative removed from childhood vaccines 20 years ago is still causing controversy today − a drug safety expert explains
  41. What is reconciliation − the legislative shortcut Republicans are using to push through their ‘Big Beautiful Bill’?
  42. What happens next in US-Iran relations will be informed by the two countries’ shared history
  43. How do scientists calculate the probability that an asteroid could hit Earth?
  44. Trump administration aims to slash funds that preserve the nation’s rich architectural and cultural history
  45. Grover Norquist’s lasting influence on the GOP and US economic policy
  46. Checking in on New England’s fishing industry 25 Years after ‘The Perfect Storm’ hit movie theaters
  47. Why power skills – formerly known as ‘soft skills’ – are the key to business success
  48. Checking in on New England fisheries 25 years after ‘The Perfect Storm’ movie
  49. Blocking exports and raising tariffs is a bad defense against industrial cyber espionage, study shows
  50. Mitochondria can sense bacteria and trigger your immune system to trap them – revealing new ways to treat infections and autoimmunity