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Federal election observers once played a key role in securing voting rights for all − but times have changed

  • Written by Allison Mashell Mitchell, Assistant Professor of Civil Rights Studies, University of Notre Dame
imageRepresentatives from the NAACP stand outside the Supreme Court on June 25, 2013, awaiting a decision in Shelby County v. Holder.AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

President Donald Trump appeared on former Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino’s podcast in February 2026, where he stated: “The Republicans should say, ‘We want to take over, we...

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The NFL draft brings economic gains – and hidden public safety costs

  • Written by Adam Annaccone, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Kinesiology, University of Texas at Arlington
imageThe NFL draft is a mass gathering that must be planned as a public safety and emergency response operation. Icon Sportswire via Getty Images

When the NFL draft comes to town, the host city’s hotels, bars and restaurants fill, while its downtown gets three days of national exposure.

Detroit’s 2024 draft drew more than 775,000 fans and...

Read more: The NFL draft brings economic gains – and hidden public safety costs

What Detroit can learn from participatory budgeting processes in NYC, Boston and Brazil

  • Written by Celina Su, Professor of Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center
imageMary Sheffield, center, had already been through 12 budget processes as a City Council member before she was elected mayor of Detroit.City of Detroit/Flickr

Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield delivered her first State of the City address on March 31, 2026, at Mumford High School on the city’s northwest side.

In the speech, Sheffield touted the...

Read more: What Detroit can learn from participatory budgeting processes in NYC, Boston and Brazil

Students were skipping my astrophysics class to play video games – so I turned the class itself into a video game

  • Written by Jane Charlton, Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Penn State
imageA screenshot from the ‘University of Mars' video game shows a galaxy flight. Jane Charlton , CC BY

When I was a teenager in the early 1980s, I realized the potential of using video games in education. The same high school classmates who couldn’t pass a test at school could somehow remember what potion or scroll to use to tame dozens of...

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How long young cancer patients survive often depends on the insurance they have

  • Written by Rhonda Winegar, Assistant Professor of Nursing, University of Texas at Arlington
imageThe financial costs of cancer screening and treatment can make accessing care feel impossible.Thai Noipho/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Cancer is becoming increasingly common among young people, with cases slowly and steadily rising every year for the past decade. And what type of insurance adolescents and young adults have affects at what stage of...

Read more: How long young cancer patients survive often depends on the insurance they have

Astronaut Victor Glover is the latest in a long line of Black American explorers − including York, the enslaved man who played a key role in the Lewis and Clark expedition

  • Written by Craig Fehrman, Adjunct instructor at the Media School, Indiana University
imageThe Artemis II crew will include Victor Glover, second from left, the first Black astronaut to fly to the Moon. NASA/Frank Michaux

In April 2026, four astronauts are scheduled to fly around the Moon. As part of NASA’s Artemis II mission, they will become the first humans to do so in half a century. One crew member, pilot Victor Glover, will...

Read more: Astronaut Victor Glover is the latest in a long line of Black American explorers − including York,...

‘Project Hail Mary’ demonstrates how intellectual humility can be a guiding force for scientists and astronauts

  • Written by Deana L. Weibel, Professor of Anthropology, Grand Valley State University
imageRyland Grace, the 'Project Hail Mary' protagonist, exhibits intellectual humility while problem-solving to save the Earth. Amazon MGM Studios

Early in Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s science fiction blockbuster “Project Hail Mary,” middle school teacher Ryland Grace, played by Ryan Gosling, is tasked by an international...

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Holocaust survivors in France came home to stolen apartments, looted furniture and bureaucratic hurdles

  • Written by Shannon Fogg, Professor of History, Missouri University of Science and Technology
imageFurniture confiscated from Jewish homes is delivered to other people in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris in April 1942, after an Allied bombing.Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images

In 1945, an angry mob confronted Aba Mizreh and four of his sons outside their former home in Paris. The Jewish family had hidden in Lyon during World War II, only to learn...

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How California’s war on smog and its ambitious car pollution rules made everyone’s air cleaner

  • Written by Ann E. Carlson, Professor of Environmental Law, University of California, Los Angeles
imageBefore catalytic converters, starting a gas-powered vehicle could choke the surrounding area with smog.Bettmann via Getty Images

Cars on the road today are 99% cleaner than they were in 1970. Air quality in the United States is much, much better as a result. In Los Angeles, where I live, lead levels in the air were 50 times higher in the 1970s than...

Read more: How California’s war on smog and its ambitious car pollution rules made everyone’s air cleaner

How polling failures, gambling legalization and political gridlock paved the way for the explosive rise of prediction markets

  • Written by Parker Bach, PhD Student in Media and Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
imageAt their best, prediction markets aggregate collective intelligence to weigh the likelihood of future events.Fairfax Media/Getty Images

Though prediction markets have been legal in the U.S. for less than 18 months, they can’t stop making news and making money.

On prediction markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket, users can stake real money on...

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  5. Artemis II’s long countdown – a space historian explains why it has taken over 50 years to return to the Moon
  6. How sea mines threaten global trade, and how navies detect them
  7. Decades of hostility between Iran and the US were preceded by a little-remembered century-long friendship
  8. NASA wants to build a base on the Moon by the 2030s – how and why it plans to build up to a long-term lunar presence
  9. Basic income’s appeal today is similar to its roots in 18th-century England – it’s a way to compensate people for a common good taken for private gain
  10. Are multiverses real? An astrophysicist explains why it depends on how you define ‘real’
  11. Panicking scientists, canceled experiments – federal funding cuts turned my work as a research dean into crisis management
  12. Sex test used in IOC’s new transgender ban more likely to exclude from Olympics intersex women who were assigned female at birth
  13. Shiite grief over attacks on Iran’s sacred cities has deep historical roots
  14. We analyzed Philly street scenes and identified signs of gentrification using machine learning trained on longtime residents’ observations
  15. Trump’s ‘God Squad’ pits energy vs. endangered species, but it’s a false choice – protecting wildlife can be good for business
  16. COVID-19 variant BA.3.2 is spreading quickly across US – a doctor explains what you need to know
  17. Ultralightweight sonar plus AI lets tiny drones navigate like bats
  18. What Americans can learn from other civil activism movements against authoritarian regimes
  19. War on Iran during nuclear negotiations undermines the US’s ability to talk peace around the world − and the effects won’t end when Trump leaves office
  20. From ‘Project Hail Mary’ to Artemis II, spaceflight captures audiences when it centers on people because human space travel is hazardous
  21. New study measures titanium in Apollo rock to uncover Moon’s early chemistry
  22. How a diplomatic snub evokes the complicated US-Brazil relationship in the second Trump era
  23. American politicians talk about persecuted Christians abroad – but here’s what happens when those Christians migrate to the US
  24. Why do some people treat the Magic Kingdom and Disney adults like cultural abominations?
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  28. Cameras have quietly appeared in thousands of US cities – now, their integration with AI is sounding alarms
  29. Two verdicts in two days: How American courts are rewriting the rules for Big Tech and children
  30. I went to CPAC and found Trump supporters unhappy about Iran, Epstein files and the economy, even while the fans at the MAGA conference celebrate his immigration policies
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  32. Millions are protesting – but boycotts might be key to changing government policies
  33. The long shadow of Paul Ehrlich’s ‘Population Bomb’ is evident in anti-immigration efforts today
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  35. NASA’s Artemis II mission will take an astronaut crew around the Moon – a space policy expert describes the long road to launch
  36. Vagus nerve stimulation shows promise as a way to counter Alzheimer’s disease- and age-related memory loss
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  38. Scientists may be overestimating the amount of microplastics in the environment – and the culprit is lab gloves
  39. Supreme Court’s tariff decision still leaves a ‘mess’ for companies trying to grab refunds
  40. Soaring gas prices and disrupted supply chains will ripple out to increase costs in every store and sector of the economy
  41. 2026’s historic snow drought brings worries about water, wildfires and the future in the West
  42. What the historic snow drought means for water, wildfires and the future of the West
  43. On Passover, some Sephardic Jews revisit not only the story of their ancestors, but also their Ladino language
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  45. New federal student loan limits affect social work graduate students, with impacts for survivors of domestic violence in Colorado and elsewhere
  46. Food aid doesn’t make people loafers – research shows government benefits help low-income people find jobs
  47. A connection to nature fuels well-being worldwide, according to a study of 38,000 people
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  50. If using ChatGPT is cheating, what about ghostwriting? The old debate behind a new panic