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Debates over presidential power to suspend habeas corpus resurface in Trump administration

  • Written by Brooks D. Simpson, Foundation Professor of History, Arizona State University
imageThere's a conflict brewing over the rights of the arrested and detained; it's not a new conflict.busra İspir, iStock/Getty Images Plus

The principle of habeas corpus, a legal phrase, is a simple one: Translated from the Latin as “produce the body,” it provides that a judge may compel prosecutors to supply evidence to determine...

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Early visions of Mars: Meet the 19th-century astronomer who used science fiction to imagine the red planet

  • Written by Matthew Shindell, Curator, Planetary Science and Exploration, Smithsonian Institution
imageCamille Flammarion's work imagined what might exist beyond Earth in the universe. Three Lions/Hulton Archive via Getty Images

Living in today’s age of ambitious robotic exploration of Mars, with an eventual human mission to the red planet likely to happen one day, it is hard to imagine a time when Mars was a mysterious and unreachable world....

Read more: Early visions of Mars: Meet the 19th-century astronomer who used science fiction to imagine the...

Golden Dome dangers: An arms control expert explains how Trump’s missile defense threatens to make the US less safe

  • Written by Matthew Bunn, Professor of the Practice of Energy, National Security, and Foreign Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
imagePresident Donald Trump has grandiose plans for Golden Dome.AP Photo/Alex Brandon

President Donald Trump’s idea of a “Golden Dome” missile defense system carries a range of potential strategic dangers for the United States.

Golden Dome is meant to protect the U.S. from ballistic, cruise and hypersonic missiles, and missiles...

Read more: Golden Dome dangers: An arms control expert explains how Trump’s missile defense threatens to make...

Why Kissinger would have been a Fortnite champ − and other foreign policy lessons from the gaming world

  • Written by Michael A. Allen, Professor of Political Science, Boise State University

Charlemagne, the medieval King of the Franks, has taken control of modern-day America and is looking to expand his borders by invading your neighboring country.

Now, I’m not a historian. But the above example makes perfect sense to me as both a gamer and a professor of international relations.

It is a possible outcome in the recently released...

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AmeriCorps is on the chopping block – despite research showing that the national service agency is making a difference in local communities

  • Written by Pamela Paxton, Professor of Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin
imageMany AmeriCorps crews, like this one seen at work in Maine in 2011, restore and renovate public parks.John Patriquin/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

Hundreds of thousands of U.S. nonprofits provide vital services, such as running food banks and youth programs, supporting public health initiatives and helping unemployed people find new jobs....

Read more: AmeriCorps is on the chopping block – despite research showing that the national service agency is...

4 creative ways to engage children in STEM over the summer: Tips to foster curiosity and problem-solving at home

  • Written by Amber M. Simpson, Associate Professor of Mathematics Education, Binghamton University, State University of New York
imageFamilies and caregivers can boost children's confidence and interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics while school is out for summer.heshphoto/Getty Images

The Trump administration is reshaping the pursuit of science through federal cuts to research grants and the Department of Education. This will have real consequences for...

Read more: 4 creative ways to engage children in STEM over the summer: Tips to foster curiosity and...

Trump’s justifications for the latest travel ban aren’t supported by the data on immigration and terrorism

  • Written by Charles Kurzman, Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
imageTaliban fighters guard the former U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, on June 5, 2025.AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi

The Trump administration on June 4, 2025, announced travel restrictions targeting 19 countries in Africa and Asia, including many of the world’s poorest nations. All travel is banned from 12 of these countries, with partial...

Read more: Trump’s justifications for the latest travel ban aren’t supported by the data on immigration and...

How Trump’s ‘gold standard’ politicizes federal science

  • Written by H. Christopher Frey, Glenn E. Futrell Distinguished University Professor of Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University
imagePresident Donald Trump holds up an executive order promoting coal production, with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin, left, and the secretaries of Interior and Energy behind him.AP Photo/Evan Vucci

The first time Donald Trump was president, the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency developed a regulation known as...

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Detroit voters have an opportunity to pick a mayor who will ease zoning, improve transit and protect long-term residents

  • Written by Brian J. Connolly, Assistant Professor of Business Law, University of Michigan
imageFive of Detroit's mayoral candidates discuss their ideas for the future of the city.Detroit PBS

Five of the nine candidates in Detroit’s mayoral contest debated on May 29, 2025, during the annual Mackinac Policy Conference.

When asked about outgoing Mayor Mike Duggan’s 11-year tenure, many of the candidates praised him for skillfully...

Read more: Detroit voters have an opportunity to pick a mayor who will ease zoning, improve transit and...

Game theory explains why reasonable parents make vaccine choices that fuel outbreaks

  • Written by Y. Tony Yang, Endowed Professor of Health Policy and Associate Dean, George Washington University
imageVaccination is an example of how people make decisions in an interconnected system.MichelleLWilson via iStock/Getty Images Plus

When outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles occur despite highly effective vaccines being available, it’s easy to conclude that parents who don’t vaccinate their children are misguided,...

Read more: Game theory explains why reasonable parents make vaccine choices that fuel outbreaks

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  1. Ukraine’s Operation Spider Web destroyed more than aircraft – it tore apart the old idea that bases far behind the front lines are safe
  2. 100 years ago, the Supreme Court made a landmark ruling on parents’ rights in education – today, another case raises new questions
  3. Stop the ‘good’ vs ‘bad’ snap judgments and watch your world become more interesting
  4. How illicit markets fueled by data breaches sell your personal information to criminals
  5. Cuts to school lunch and food bank funding mean less fresh produce for children and families
  6. Reproducibility may be the key idea students need to balance trust in evidence with healthy skepticism
  7. In pardoning reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, Trump taps into a sense of persecution felt by his conservative Christian base
  8. How your electric bill may be paying for big data centers’ energy use
  9. Your left and right brain hear language differently − a neuroscientist explains how
  10. Memories of the good parts of using drugs can keep people hooked − altering the neurons that store them could help treat addiction
  11. ‘Loyal to the oil’ – how religion and striking it rich shape Canada’s hockey fandom
  12. What a sunny van Gogh painting of ‘The Sower’ tells us about Pope Leo’s message of hope
  13. 1 in 4 children suffers from chronic pain − school nurses could be key to helping them manage it
  14. What is vibe coding? A computer scientist explains what it means to have AI write computer code − and what risks that can entail
  15. Extreme weather’s true damage cost is often a mystery – that’s a problem for understanding storm risk, but it can be fixed
  16. Storm damage costs are often a mystery – that’s a problem for understanding extreme weather risk
  17. Supreme Court changes the game on federal environmental reviews
  18. Uncertainty at NASA − Trump withdraws his nominee for administrator while the agency faces a steep proposed budget cut
  19. We asked over 8,700 people in 6 countries to think about future generations in decision-making, and this is what we found
  20. Peace has long been elusive in rural Colombia – Black women’s community groups try to bring it closer each day
  21. A bottlenose dolphin? Or Tursiops truncatus? Why biologists give organisms those strange, unpronounceable names
  22. It’s miller moth season in Colorado – an entomologist explains why they’re important and where they’re headed
  23. The Michelin Guide is Eurocentric and elitist − yet it will soon be an arbiter of culinary excellence in Philly
  24. Is methylene blue really a brain booster? A pharmacologist explains the science
  25. Autocrats don’t act like Hitler or Stalin anymore − instead of governing with violence, they use manipulation
  26. Reducing American antisemitism requires more than condemning opposition to Israel and targeting elite universities
  27. Even if Putin and Zelenskyy do go face-to-face, don’t expect wonders − their one meeting in 2019 ended in failure
  28. California plan to ban most plants within 5 feet of homes for wildfire safety overlooks some important truths about flammability
  29. New model helps to figure out which distant planets may host life
  30. Debunking 5 myths about when your devices get wet
  31. Robots run out of energy long before they run out of work to do − feeding them could change that
  32. Is AI sparking a cognitive revolution that will lead to mediocrity and conformity?
  33. Our trans health study was terminated by the government – the effects of abrupt NIH grant cuts ripple across science and society
  34. 3 ways the government can silence opinions it disagrees with, without using censorship
  35. Veterans’ protests planned for D-Day latest in nearly 250 years of fighting for their benefits
  36. If it looks like a dire wolf, is it a dire wolf? How to define a species is a scientific and philosophical question
  37. Detroit’s population grew in 2023, 2024 − a strategy to welcome immigrants helps explain the turnaround from decades of population decline
  38. Prime numbers, the building blocks of mathematics, have fascinated for centuries − now technology is revolutionizing the search for them
  39. Hurricane season is here, but FEMA’s policy change could leave low-income areas less protected
  40. Millions of US children have parents with substance use disorder, and the consequences are staggering − new research
  41. Are hegemonies a relic of the past? The role of coercion and consent in global domination
  42. The biggest barrier to AI adoption in the business world isn’t tech – it’s user confidence
  43. Solar panels’ shade helps boost Colorado grassland productivity in dry years
  44. Surge of ICE agreements with local police aim to increase deportations, but many police forces have found they undermine public safety
  45. Trump’s white genocide claims about South Africa have deep roots in American history
  46. Beyond the backlash: What evidence shows about the economic impact of DEI
  47. Like today’s selfie-takers, Walt Whitman used photography to curate his image – but ended up more lost than found
  48. The rise and fall – and rise again – of white-tailed deer
  49. What Peru’s Virgen de la Puerta represents about unity and inclusion
  50. Weaponized storytelling: How AI is helping researchers sniff out disinformation campaigns