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Exposure to neighborhood violence leads some Denver teens to use tobacco and alcohol earlier, new study shows

  • Written by Anna Maria Santiago, Professor of Community Development, Michigan State University
imageDenver teens who experience violence start using tobacco and alcohol earlier than their peers.BSIP/Getty Images

High levels of neighborhood violence increase the risk of Latino and African American teens in Denver starting to use alcohol and tobacco, according to our recent study.

In the U.S., approximately 2 in 10 adolescents between the ages of 12...

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Newly discovered link between traumatic brain injury in children and epigenetic changes could help personalize treatment for recovering kids

  • Written by Lacey W. Heinsberg, Assistant Professor of Nursing and Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh
imageThe effects of traumatic brain injuries go beyond what meets the eye.Naeblys/iStock via Getty Images Plus

A newly discovered biological signal in the blood could help health care teams and researchers better understand how children respond to brain injuries at the cellular level, according to our research in the Journal of Neurotrauma.

In the...

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US oil industry doesn’t see profit in Trump’s ‘pro-petroleum’ moves

  • Written by Skip York, Nonresident Fellow in Energy and Global Oil, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University
imageExpanding offshore drilling is one of President Donald Trump's key policy goals for his second term.Mario Tama/Getty Images

As the Trump administration makes announcementafterannouncement about its efforts to promote the U.S. fossil fuel industry, the industry isn’t exactly jumping at new opportunities.

Some high-profile oil and gas industry le...

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Sabrina Carpenter’s and Chappell Roan’s sexy pop hits have roots in the bedroom ballads of Teddy Pendergrass and Philly soul

  • Written by Jared Bahir Browsh, Assistant Teaching Professor of Critical Sports Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
imageTeddy Pendergrass was known for romantic R&B ballads like the 1978 hit "Close the Door."Michael Putland via Getty Images

When Sabrina Carpenter’s provocative 2024 pop single “Bed Chem” plays on the radio, and I hear the lyrics

“But I bet we’d have really good bed chem / How you pick me up, pull ‘em down, turn...

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6 myths about rural America: How conventional wisdom gets it wrong

  • Written by Tim Slack, Professor of Sociology, Louisiana State University
imageDusk in downtown Lumberton, county seat in Robeson County, N.C., the most diverse rural county in America. AP Photo/David Goldman

Roughly 1 in 5 Americans live in rural areas – places the federal government defines based on small populations and low housing density.

Yet many people understand rural America through stereotypes. Media and...

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Young, undocumented immigrants are finding it increasingly hard to attend college as South Carolina and other states restrict in-state tuition or ban them altogether

  • Written by William McCorkle, Associate Professor of Education, College of Charleston
imageStudents at Arizona State University protest against a Republican student group encouraging people to report undocumented immigrants in January 2025 . Ross D. Franklin/Associated Press

The Trump administration’s aggressive deportationpolicies haveheightened stress among the country’s approximately 14 million immigrants who are living...

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Outside the West, the Kundalini tradition presents a model of the ‘divine feminine’ beyond binary gender

  • Written by Anya Foxen, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, California Polytechnic State University
imageA piece of art shows the tantric tradition's depiction of Kundalini and energy centers – or chakras.Tantrika painting/Wellcome Collection, CC BY

The notion of the divine feminine is a recurring motif in American pop culture, playing with the assumptions people make when referring to God – often the deity described in the Bible –...

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Pope Leo XIV’s visits to Turkey and Lebanon were about religious diplomacy

  • Written by Ramazan Kılınç, Professor of Political Science, Kennesaw State University
imagePope Leo XIV and the Armenian patriarch of Constantinople, Archbishop Sahag II Mashalian, celebrate a liturgy in the Armenian Apostolic Cathedral of Istanbul, Turkey, on Nov. 30, 2025.Dilara Acikgoz/AP Photo

On his visit to Turkey and Lebanon between Nov. 27 and Dec. 2, 2025, Pope Leo XIV met with political and religious leaders, celebrated Mass...

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How crime in Brazil drags down the economy and heaps economic pain on the nation’s poor

  • Written by Robert Muggah, Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow na Bosch Academy e Co-fundador, Instituto Igarapé; Princeton University

Brazil’s “criminal economy” does not appear on any national balance sheet. Yet the cost of violence, contraband, tax evasion and environmental crime can be measured in the tens of billions of dollars every year and serves as a major drag on Brazil’s economic growth and stability.

Attempts to quantify this burden go back at...

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You care about fairness at work – so why do you feel like a fake?

  • Written by Meg Warren, Associate Professor of Management, Western Washington University

Most people care about fairness at work and want to support colleagues who face marginalization – for example, people of color, women and people with disabilities. Our research has found that 76% of employees want to be allies to co-workers who face additional challenges, and 84% value equity. That’s in line with a 2025 national survey...

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