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Lack of access to health care is partly to blame for skyrocketing HIV rates among gay Black men

  • Written by Deion Scott Hawkins, Assistant Professor of Argumentation & Advocacy, Emerson College
imageA man takes a free HIV test during the Harlem Pride parade in New York City.Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images)

Over the past 20 years, people living with HIV in the United States have seen a drastic improvement in their overall quality of life. But the medical achievements that have made those lives better and created longer life expectancies have...

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Ads, food and gambling galore − 5 essential reads for the Super Bowl

  • Written by Nick Lehr, Arts + Culture Editor
imageChristian McCaffrey and the San Francisco 49ers will try to stop the Kansas City Chiefs from winning their third Super Bowl in five years.Michael Zagaris/Getty Images

On Sunday in Las Vegas, the Kansas City Chiefs will be looking to win their second straight Lombardi Trophy, while a San Francisco 49ers victory would give the team its first Super...

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Some of the Renaissance’s most romantic love poems weren’t for lovers

  • Written by Shannon McHugh, Associate Professor of French and Italian, UMass Boston
imageSonnets still have a reputation for being about the unrequited love of a man for a woman.AndreasPraefcke/Wikimedia Commons

As poets have demonstrated for centuries, a sonnet for your beloved never goes out of style. The gift of verse may carry extra cachet this Valentine’s Day, on the heels of Taylor Swift’s announcement that her next...

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From church to the mosque, faith and friends help Iowa’s African immigrants and refugees build a sense of home

  • Written by Osamamen Oba Eduviere, Ph.D. Candidate in Religious Studies, University of Iowa
imageSnow covers the replica of the Statue of Liberty outside the Decatur County Courthouse in Leon, Iowa.Joshua Lott/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Think of Iowa, our home. Many people picture cornfields: the Great Plains of the American heartland.

One thing many outsiders may not know about this agrarian, predominantly white state where we teach...

Read more: From church to the mosque, faith and friends help Iowa’s African immigrants and refugees build a...

Israel is a Jewish nation, but its population is far from a monolith

  • Written by Jessica Trisko Darden, Associate Professor of Political Science, Virginia Commonwealth University
imageIsraeli soldiers attend the funeral of Staff Sgt. Emanuel Feleke, an Ethiopian Israeli who was killed in Gaza in December 2023. Ohad Zwigenberg

As the toll of the Israel-Hamas war continues to mount, Israeli military casualties are shedding new light on a topic that rarely gets international media attention – Israel’s ethnic diversity.

I...

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Why John Dewey’s vision for education and democracy still resonates today

  • Written by Nicholas Tampio, Professor of Political Science, Fordham University
imageJohn Dewey was a proponent of active learning. FatCamera via Getty Images

John Dewey was one of the most important educational philosophers of the 20th century. His work has been cited in scholarly publications over 400,000 times. Dewey’s writings continue to influence discussions on a variety of subjects, including democratic education,...

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Supreme Court skeptical that Colorado − or any state − should decide for whole nation whether Trump is eligible for presidency

  • Written by Derek T. Muller, Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame
imagePolice place a fence at the U.S. Supreme Court on Feb. 8, 2024, before justices heard arguments over whether Donald Trump is ineligible for the 2024 ballot. AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana

Both liberal and conservative justices weighed in during oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court on Feb. 8, 2024, asking questions concerning whether a...

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FCC bans robocalls using deepfake voice clones − but AI-generated disinformation still looms over elections

  • Written by Joan Donovan, Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies, Boston University
imageThe FCC is responding to the threat of deepfakes.AP Photo/Andrew Harnik

The Federal Communications Commission on Feb. 8, 2024, outlawed robocalls that use voices generated by artificial intelligence.

The 1991 Telephone Consumer Protection Act bans artificial voices in robocalls. The FCC’s Feb. 8 ruling declares that AI-generated voices,...

Read more: FCC bans robocalls using deepfake voice clones − but AI-generated disinformation still looms over...

‘Look for a reversal in a fairly short period of time’ − former federal judge expects Supreme Court will keep Trump on Colorado ballot

  • Written by John E. Jones III, President, Dickinson College
imageEven a day before the oral arguments, a line had formed outside the Supreme Court to sit in on the court's session.AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana

To get the rare perspective of a former federal judge on the oral arguments at the Supreme Court, The Conversation U.S. spoke with John E. Jones III. He is the president of Dickinson College and a retired...

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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

  • Written by Paul Roundy, Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University at Albany, State University of New York
imageIn California, El Niño helped fuel a wet 2023 and early 2024.Mario Tama/Getty Images

Wild weather has been roiling North America for the past few months, thanks in part to a strong El Niño that sent temperatures surging in 2023. The climate phenomenon fed atmospheric rivers drenching the West Coast and contributed to summer’s...

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  2. Anger, sadness, boredom, anxiety – emotions that feel bad can be useful
  3. The myth of men’s full-time employment
  4. The Super Bowl gets the Vegas treatment, with 1 in 4 American adults expected to gamble on the big game
  5. Heart attacks, cancer, dementia, premature deaths: 4 essential reads on the health effects driving EPA’s new fine particle air pollution standard
  6. Americans spend millions of dollars on Valentine’s Day roses. I calculated exactly how much
  7. Breastfeeding benefits mothers as much as babies, but public health messaging often only tells half of the story
  8. Russia’s fanning of anti-Israeli sentiment takes dark detour into Holocaust denialism
  9. What’s sociology? A sociologist explains why Florida’s college students should get the chance to learn how social forces affect everyone’s lives
  10. DOJ funding pipeline subsidizes questionable big data surveillance technologies
  11. Could flag football one day leapfrog tackle football in popularity?
  12. George Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ is a story of jazz, race and the fraught notion of America’s melting pot
  13. About a third of employees have faced bullying at work – here’s how to recognize and deal with it
  14. Power outages leave poor communities in the dark longer: Evidence from 15M outages raises questions about recovery times
  15. The divine matchmaker in Chinese mythology − Old Man Under the Moon − who helps couples find love
  16. Synthetic human embryos let researchers study early development while sidestepping ethical and logistical hurdles
  17. Biden’s ‘hard look’ at liquefied natural gas exports raises a critical question: How does natural gas fit with US climate goals?
  18. Super Bowl party foods can deliver political bite – choose wisely
  19. Indonesians head to polls amid concerns over declining democracy, election integrity and vote buying
  20. Michigan mother convicted of manslaughter for school shootings by her son – after buying him a gun and letting him keep it unsecured
  21. More than 78 ‘friends’ of the Supreme Court offer advice on the 14th Amendment and Trump’s eligibility
  22. Trump was not king and can be prosecuted for crimes committed while president: Appeals court places limits on immunity
  23. Supreme Court heads into uncharted, dangerous territory as it considers Trump insurrection case
  24. Dietary supplements and protein powders fall under a ‘wild west’ of unregulated products that necessitate caveats and caution
  25. Dietary supplements and protein powders fall under a ‘wild west’ of products that necessitate caveats and caution
  26. Black travelers want authentic engagement, not checkboxes
  27. Driving the best possible bargain now isn’t the best long-term strategy, according to game theory
  28. Peer review isn’t perfect − I know because I teach others how to do it and I’ve seen firsthand how it comes up short
  29. A two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians might actually be closer than ever
  30. AI helps students skip right to the good stuff in this intro programming course
  31. Perils of pet poop – so much more than just unsightly and smelly, it can spread disease
  32. Self-extinguishing batteries could reduce the risk of deadly and costly battery fires
  33. From rebel to retail − inside Bob Marley’s posthumous musical and merchandising empire
  34. It’s the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese zodiac − associated with good fortune, wisdom and success
  35. Black communities are using mapping to document and restore a sense of place
  36. Enemy collaboration in occupied Ukraine evokes painful memories in Europe – and the response risks a rush to vigilante justice
  37. Why Elon Musk’s ‘self-driving’ of Tesla’s board and its decision to pay him $56B collided with the law – and what happens next
  38. Why do people and animals need to breathe? A biologist explains why you need a constant source of oxygen
  39. What do your blood test results mean? A toxicologist explains the basics of how to interpret them
  40. Studying lake deposits in Idaho could give scientists insight into ancient traces of life on Mars
  41. Lunar science is entering a new active phase, with commercial launches of landers that will study solar wind and peer into the universe’s dark ages
  42. Amid growing legalization, cannabis in culture and politics is the focus of this anthropology course
  43. Race is already a theme of the 2024 presidential election – continuing an American tradition
  44. US raids in Iraq and Syria: How retaliatory airstrikes affect network of Iran-backed militias
  45. US launches retaliatory strikes in Iraq and Syria − a national security expert explains the message they send
  46. El período colonial de América Latina fue mucho menos católico de lo que parece, a pesar de los intentos de la Inquisición de controlar la religión
  47. Los carteles de ‘No se acepta efectivo’ son una mala noticia para millones de estadounidenses sin cuenta bancaria
  48. Biden is campaigning against the Lost Cause and the ‘poison’ of white supremacy in South Carolina
  49. An independent commission is racing to redraw Detroit’s voting maps under a federal court order − but the change may not elect more Black candidates
  50. From throwing soup to suing governments, there’s strategy to climate activism’s seeming chaos − here’s where it’s headed next