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Facing myriad global pressures, Iran intensifies outreach to African partners for critical needs

  • Written by Eric Lob, Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations, Florida International University
imagePrime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed shakes hands with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi during the 17th annual BRICS summit on July 6, 2025. AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo

Burkina Faso’s security minister headed to Tehran on Nov. 12, 2025, for high-level talks with Iranian officials. The visit was a fruitful one: The West African nation...

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People who talk with their hands seem more clear and persuasive – new research

  • Written by Giovanni Luca Cascio Rizzo, Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Southern California
imageAn appropriate hand gesture can help drive your point home.Fajrul Islam/Moment via Getty Images

When people use hand gestures that visually represent what they’re saying, listeners see them as more clear, competent and persuasive. That’s the key finding from my new research published in the Journal of Marketing Research, where I...

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Declaration of Independence’s promises ring out today as loudly as they did for Lincoln, FDR and through 249 years of US history

  • Written by Graeme Mack, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, University of Richmond
imageThe Declaration of Independence declares the nation’s credo, that 'all men are created equal.'Tetra Images/Getty Images

The Declaration of Independence’s 250th anniversary in 2026 is certain to be a time of national reflection.

Americans tend to look to the Constitution to assess whether the nation is living up to its founding principles...

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Everything everywhere all at once: How Zohran Mamdani campaigned both online and with a ground game

  • Written by Stuart Soroka, Professor, Communications and Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles
imageNew York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal meet voters to go door-knocking in Jackson Heights on Sept. 14, 2025.Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images

Accounts of Zohran Mamdani’s campaign for New York City mayor have highlighted both his online presence and his ground game.

Mamdani won the general election with...

Read more: Everything everywhere all at once: How Zohran Mamdani campaigned both online and with a ground game

The housing crisis is forcing Americans to choose between affordability and safety

  • Written by Ivis García, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University

Picture this: You’re looking to buy a place to live, and you have two options.

Option A is a beautiful home in California near good schools and job opportunities. But it goes for nearly a million dollars – the median California home sells for US$906,500 – and you’d be paying a mortgage that’s risen 82% since January...

Read more: The housing crisis is forcing Americans to choose between affordability and safety

FDA claims on COVID-19 vaccine safety are unsupported by reliable data – and could severely hinder vaccine access

  • Written by Frank Han, Assistant Professor of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Illinois Chicago
imageThe FDA has provided no evidence that children died because of receiving a COVID-19 vaccine. Anchiy/E+ via Getty Images

The Food and Drug Administration is seeking to drastically change procedures for testing vaccine safety and approving vaccines, based on unproven claims that mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines caused the death of at least 10 children.

Th...

Read more: FDA claims on COVID-19 vaccine safety are unsupported by reliable data – and could severely hinder...

The marketing genius of Spotify Wrapped

  • Written by Ishani Banerji, Clinical Assistant Professor of Marketing, Clemson University
imageCharli XCX performs during a celebration of the annual release of Spotify Wrapped in 2022 in Los Angeles.Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Spotify

Even before this year’s Spotify Wrapped dropped, I had a hunch what mine would reveal.

Lo and behold, one of my most-listened-to songs was an obscure 2004 track titled “Rusty Chevrolet” by...

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Lasting peace in Ukraine may hinge on independent monitors – yet Trump’s 28-point plan barely mentions them

  • Written by Peter J. Quaranto, Visiting Professor of the Practice, University of Notre Dame
imageRussian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with U.S. representatives Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner (both not pictured) on Dec. 2, 2025.Alexander Kazakov/ AFP via Getty Images

Start-and-stop negotiations for a deal to end the war in Ukraine have been injected with new intensity after U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration...

Read more: Lasting peace in Ukraine may hinge on independent monitors – yet Trump’s 28-point plan barely...

A hard year for federal workers offers a real-time lesson in resilience

  • Written by Anne Pisor, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Demography, Penn State

Imagine going from having a book club with your co-workers to seeing them only on a Signal chat where every member has to be vetted – and the main conversation topic is when you might lose your job.

That’s what it was like for workers at one federal agency earlier this year.

“I’d never seen anything like the sort of...

Read more: A hard year for federal workers offers a real-time lesson in resilience

Why one 16th-century theologian’s advice for a bitterly divided nation holds true today

  • Written by Michael Bruening, Professor of History, Missouri University of Science and Technology
imageA monument to Sebastian Castellio in Geneva – using a French spelling of his name – reads, 'Killing a man is not defending a doctrine; it is killing a man.'MHM55/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Ideological division was tearing the country apart. Factions denounced each other as unpatriotic and evil. There were attempted kidnappings and...

Read more: Why one 16th-century theologian’s advice for a bitterly divided nation holds true today

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  2. Google’s proposed data center in orbit will face issues with space debris in an already crowded orbit
  3. Yes, the government can track your location – but usually not by spying on you directly
  4. Federal funding cuts are only one problem facing America’s colleges and universities
  5. Labeling dissent as terrorism: New US domestic terrorism priorities raise constitutional alarms
  6. Empathy and reasoning aren’t rivals – new research shows they work together to drive people to help more
  7. Flat Earth, spirits and conspiracy theories – experience can shape even extraordinary beliefs
  8. Planning life after high school isn’t easy – 4 tips to help students and families navigate the process
  9. Why do family companies even exist? They know how to ‘win without fighting’
  10. Larry Summers’ sexism is jeopardizing his power and privilege, but the entire economics profession hinders progress for women
  11. Sugar starts corroding your teeth within seconds – here’s how to protect your pearly whites from decay
  12. Google plans to power a new data center with fossil fuels, yet release almost no emissions – here’s how its carbon capture tech works
  13. High-speed rail moves millions throughout the world every day – but in the US, high cost and low use make its future bumpy
  14. Ranked choice voting outperforms the winner-take-all system used to elect nearly every US politician
  15. Why protecting Colorado children from dying of domestic violence is such a hard problem
  16. We are hardwired to sing − and it’s good for us, too
  17. Winter storms blanket the East, while the U.S. West is wondering: Where’s the snow?
  18. Winter storms blanket the East, while the US West is wondering: Where’s the snow?
  19. Stalin’s postwar terror targeted Soviet Jews – in the name of ‘anti-cosmopolitanism’
  20. Rural high school students are more likely than city kids to get their diplomas, but they remain less likely to go to college
  21. Texas cities have some of the highest preterm birth rates in the US, highlighting maternal health crisis nationwide
  22. New York’s wealthy warn of a tax exodus after Mamdani’s win – but the data says otherwise
  23. Why do people get headaches and migraines? A child neurologist explains the science of head pain and how to treat it
  24. When the world’s largest battery power plant caught fire, toxic metals rained down – wetlands captured the fallout
  25. Speaker Johnson’s choice to lead by following the president goes against 200 years of House speakers building up the office’s power
  26. Iran’s president calls for moving its drought-stricken capital amid a worsening water crisis – how Tehran got into water bankruptcy
  27. Guinea-Bissau’s military takeover highlights the nation’s sorry history of coups and a deepening crisis across the region
  28. Drones, physics and rats: Studies show how the people of Rapa Nui made and moved the giant statues – and what caused the island’s deforestation
  29. As US hunger rises, Trump administration’s ‘efficiency’ goals cause massive food waste
  30. A year on, the Israeli-Lebanese ceasefire looks increasingly fragile − could a return to cyclical violence come next?
  31. How does Narcan work? Mapping how it reverses opioid overdose can provide a molecular blueprint for more effective drugs
  32. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence – and that affects what scientific journals choose to publish
  33. George Plimpton’s 1966 nonfiction classic ‘Paper Lion’ revealed the bruising truths of Detroit Lions training camp
  34. Pentagon investigation of Sen. Mark Kelly revives Cold War persecution of Americans with supposedly disloyal views
  35. A database could help revive the Arapaho language before its last speakers are gone
  36. How food assistance programs can feed families and nourish their dignity
  37. What makes a true Santa is inside – and comes with the red suit
  38. ‘Without prejudice’: What this 2-word legalese means for the dismissed charges against James Comey and Letitia James
  39. From concrete to community: How synthetic data can make urban digital twins more humane
  40. The ChatGPT effect: In 3 years the AI chatbot has changed the way people look things up
  41. When darkness shines: How dark stars could illuminate the early universe
  42. Fern stems reveal secrets of evolution – how constraints in development can lead to new forms
  43. A quarter of early child care educators in Colorado reported mistreatment from co-workers
  44. Sea level doesn’t rise at the same rate everywhere – we mapped where Antarctica’s ice melt would have the biggest impact
  45. Automated systems decide which homeless Philadelphians get housing and who stays on the street – often in ways that feel arbitrary to those waiting
  46. Treating love for work like a virtue can backfire on employees and teams
  47. Colleges teach the most valuable career skills when they don’t stick narrowly to preprofessional education
  48. Thousands of genomes reveal the wild wolf genes in most dogs’ DNA
  49. Peace plan presented by the US to Ukraine reflects inexperienced, unrealistic handling of a delicate situation
  50. Writing builds resilience by changing your brain, helping you face everyday challenges