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‘Who controls the present controls the past’: What Orwell’s ‘1984’ explains about the twisting of history to control the public

  • Written by Laura Beers, Professor of History, American University
imageGeorge Orwell's '1984' has some lessons for 2025.NurPhoto/Corbis via Getty Images

When people use the term “Orwellian,” it’s not a good sign.

It usually characterizes an action, an individual or a society that is suppressing freedom, particularly the freedom of expression. It can also describe something perverted by tyrannical...

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Americans still have faith in local news − but few are willing to pay for it

  • Written by Jennifer Hoewe, Associate Professor, Purdue University
imageWhile many Americans do not trust national news, they still say they have faith in local news. iStock/Getty Images Plus

Many Americans say they have lost trust in national news – but most still believe they can rely on the accuracy of local news.

In 2023, trust in national newspapers, TV and radio reached historic lows. Just 32% of Americans...

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How school choice policies evolved from supporting Black students to subsidizing middle-class families

  • Written by Kendall Deas, Assistant Professor of Education Policy, Law, and Politics, University of South Carolina
imageOriginally developed as a tool to help Black children attend better schools, school voucher programs now serve a different purpose.Drazen via Getty Images

School voucher programs that allow families to use public funds to pay tuition to attend private schools have become increasingly popular.

Thirteen states and the District of Columbia currently...

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Your brain learns from rejection − here’s how it becomes your compass for connection

  • Written by Begüm Babür, Ph.D. Student in Social Psychology, University of Southern California
imageBeing excluded isn't easy, but it does teach you about other people.Alistair Berg/DigitalVision via Getty Images

Imagine finding out your friends hosted a dinner party and didn’t invite you, or that you were passed over for a job you were excited about. These moments hurt, and people often describe rejection in the language of physical pain.

W...

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NCAA will pay its current and former athletes in an agreement that will transform college sports

  • Written by Joshua Lens, Associate Professor of Instruction of Sport & Recreation Management, University of Iowa
imageFormer Arizona State University swimmer Grant House is one of the plaintiffs in the class action lawsuit filed against the NCAA.Mike Comer/NCAA Photos via Getty Images

The business of college sports was upended after a federal judge approved a settlement between the NCAA and former college athletes on June 6, 2025.

After a lengthy litigation...

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Lafayette helped Americans turn the tide in their fight for independence – and 50 years later, he helped forge the growing nation’s sense of identity

  • Written by Matthew Smith, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Miami University
imageJean Marie Joseph Bove's depiction of Lafayette returning to the U.S. The caption says, 'A great man belongs to the whole universe.'Blancheteau Collection/Cornell University Library via Wikimedia Commons

America is nearing the 250th anniversary of its revolutionary birth, the Declaration of Independence. July 4, 2026, will mark a milestone –...

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If people stopped having babies, how long would it be before humans were all gone?

  • Written by Michael A. Little, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Binghamton University, State University of New York
imageWhen the population plunges, it can get pretty lonely. Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com.

If people stopped having babies, how long would it be before humans were all gone? – Jeffrey

Very few people...

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From Kent State to Los Angeles, using armed forces to police civilians is a high-risk strategy

  • Written by Brian VanDeMark, Professor of History, United States Naval Academy
imageSmoke and tear gas surround a protester in Los Angeles on June 7, 2025, amid confrontations between immigration rights advocates and law enforcement personnel.Taurat Hossain/Anadolu via Getty Images

Responding to street protests in Los Angeles against federal immigration enforcement raids, President Donald Trump ordered 2,000 soldiers from the...

Read more: From Kent State to Los Angeles, using armed forces to police civilians is a high-risk strategy

Coral reefs face an uncertain recovery from the 4th global mass bleaching event – can climate refuges help?

  • Written by Noam Vogt-Vincent, Postdoctoral Fellow in Marine Biology, University of Hawaii
imageThe Great Barrier Reef stretches for 1,429 miles just off Australia's northeastern coast.Auscape/Universal Images Group via Getty Image

Tropical reefs might look like inanimate rock, but these colorful seascapes are built by tiny jellyfish-like animals called corals. While adult corals build solid structures that are firmly attached to the sea...

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Was the Boulder attack terrorism or a hate crime? 2 experts unpack the complexities

  • Written by Frederic Lemieux, Professor of the Practice and Faculty Director of the Master's in Applied Intelligence, Georgetown University
imageA woman places flowers outside the Boulder, Colo., courthouse after an attack that injured 12 people. David Zalubowski/AP Photo

Twelve people in Boulder, Colorado, were injured by a man wielding a makeshift flamethrower and Molotov cocktails on June 1, 2025. Those burned in the attack were taking part in a peaceful, silent walk on Pearl Street, a...

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  2. ‘The Eternal Queen of Asian Pop’ sings one last encore from beyond the grave
  3. US health care is rife with high costs and deep inequities, and that’s no accident – a public health historian explains how the system was shaped to serve profit and politicians
  4. Debates over presidential power to suspend habeas corpus resurface in Trump administration
  5. Early visions of Mars: Meet the 19th-century astronomer who used science fiction to imagine the red planet
  6. Golden Dome dangers: An arms control expert explains how Trump’s missile defense threatens to make the US less safe
  7. Why Kissinger would have been a Fortnite champ − and other foreign policy lessons from the gaming world
  8. AmeriCorps is on the chopping block – despite research showing that the national service agency is making a difference in local communities
  9. 4 creative ways to engage children in STEM over the summer: Tips to foster curiosity and problem-solving at home
  10. Trump’s justifications for the latest travel ban aren’t supported by the data on immigration and terrorism
  11. How Trump’s ‘gold standard’ politicizes federal science
  12. Detroit voters have an opportunity to pick a mayor who will ease zoning, improve transit and protect long-term residents
  13. Game theory explains why reasonable parents make vaccine choices that fuel outbreaks
  14. Ukraine’s Operation Spider Web destroyed more than aircraft – it tore apart the old idea that bases far behind the front lines are safe
  15. 100 years ago, the Supreme Court made a landmark ruling on parents’ rights in education – today, another case raises new questions
  16. Stop the ‘good’ vs ‘bad’ snap judgments and watch your world become more interesting
  17. How illicit markets fueled by data breaches sell your personal information to criminals
  18. Cuts to school lunch and food bank funding mean less fresh produce for children and families
  19. Reproducibility may be the key idea students need to balance trust in evidence with healthy skepticism
  20. In pardoning reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, Trump taps into a sense of persecution felt by his conservative Christian base
  21. How your electric bill may be paying for big data centers’ energy use
  22. Your left and right brain hear language differently − a neuroscientist explains how
  23. Memories of the good parts of using drugs can keep people hooked − altering the neurons that store them could help treat addiction
  24. ‘Loyal to the oil’ – how religion and striking it rich shape Canada’s hockey fandom
  25. What a sunny van Gogh painting of ‘The Sower’ tells us about Pope Leo’s message of hope
  26. 1 in 4 children suffers from chronic pain − school nurses could be key to helping them manage it
  27. What is vibe coding? A computer scientist explains what it means to have AI write computer code − and what risks that can entail
  28. Extreme weather’s true damage cost is often a mystery – that’s a problem for understanding storm risk, but it can be fixed
  29. Storm damage costs are often a mystery – that’s a problem for understanding extreme weather risk
  30. Supreme Court changes the game on federal environmental reviews
  31. Uncertainty at NASA − Trump withdraws his nominee for administrator while the agency faces a steep proposed budget cut
  32. We asked over 8,700 people in 6 countries to think about future generations in decision-making, and this is what we found
  33. Peace has long been elusive in rural Colombia – Black women’s community groups try to bring it closer each day
  34. A bottlenose dolphin? Or Tursiops truncatus? Why biologists give organisms those strange, unpronounceable names
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  36. The Michelin Guide is Eurocentric and elitist − yet it will soon be an arbiter of culinary excellence in Philly
  37. Is methylene blue really a brain booster? A pharmacologist explains the science
  38. Autocrats don’t act like Hitler or Stalin anymore − instead of governing with violence, they use manipulation
  39. Reducing American antisemitism requires more than condemning opposition to Israel and targeting elite universities
  40. Even if Putin and Zelenskyy do go face-to-face, don’t expect wonders − their one meeting in 2019 ended in failure
  41. California plan to ban most plants within 5 feet of homes for wildfire safety overlooks some important truths about flammability
  42. New model helps to figure out which distant planets may host life
  43. Debunking 5 myths about when your devices get wet
  44. Robots run out of energy long before they run out of work to do − feeding them could change that
  45. Is AI sparking a cognitive revolution that will lead to mediocrity and conformity?
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  47. 3 ways the government can silence opinions it disagrees with, without using censorship
  48. Veterans’ protests planned for D-Day latest in nearly 250 years of fighting for their benefits
  49. If it looks like a dire wolf, is it a dire wolf? How to define a species is a scientific and philosophical question
  50. Detroit’s population grew in 2023, 2024 − a strategy to welcome immigrants helps explain the turnaround from decades of population decline