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Censorship campaigns can have a way of backfiring – look no further than the fate of America’s most prolific censor

  • Written by Amy Werbel, Professor of the History of Art, Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT)
imageThe vast majority of Americans support the right to free speech.Jacek Boczarski/Anadolu via Getty Images

In the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term in office, his administration has made many attempts to suppress speech it disfavors – at universities, on the airwaves, in public school classrooms, in museums, at protests an...

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McCarthyism’s shadow looms over controversial firing of Texas professor who taught about gender identity

  • Written by Laura Gail Miller, Ed.D. Candidate in Educational Organizational Learning and Leadership, Seattle University
imageA Texas A&M free speech case raises questions about academic freedom that have featured before in American society and courts, including during the 1950s. Westend61

Texas A&M University announced the resignation of its president, Mark A. Welsh III, on Sept. 18, 2025, following a controversial decision earlier in the month to fire a...

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‘Whisper networks’ don’t work as well online as off − here’s why women are better able to look out for each other in person

  • Written by Carrie Ann Johnson, Assistant Teaching Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, Iowa State University
imageWould you trust sensitive information from someone you know more than from an anonymous online poster?kali9/E+ via Getty Images

Whisper networks are informal channels that women use to warn each other about sexual harassment, abuse or assault. The reason they work isn’t because they are secret – they work because they are contextual.

The...

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‘Warrior ethos’ mistakes military might for true security − and ignores the wisdom of Eisenhower

  • Written by Monica Duffy Toft, Professor of International Politics and Director of the Center for Strategic Studies, The Fletcher School, Tufts University

Hundreds of generals and admirals converged on Quantico, Virginia, on Sept. 30, 2025, after being summoned from across the globe by their boss, Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth, for a session that, as expected, covered what Hegseth often describes as the “warrior ethos.”

Listening quietly, they heard Hegseth promise to make the military &ldq...

Read more: ‘Warrior ethos’ mistakes military might for true security − and ignores the wisdom of Eisenhower

Arab American students and parents see US schools very differently − political tensions are widening the gap

  • Written by Hind Haddad, PhD Student in Higher Education and Student Affairs, The Ohio State University
imageA mom in Ypsilanti, Mich., consoles her son after a defeat in basketball. Toni L. Sandys/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Sixty-four percent of Arab American students say their parents don’t fully understand the U.S. school system.

That finding, from my recent nationwide survey of 411 Arab American students and parents – distributed...

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Russell M. Nelson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, pushed it away from ‘Mormon’ – a word that has courted controversy for 200 years

  • Written by Konden Smith Hansen, Senior Lecturer of Religious Studies, University of Arizona
imageRussell Nelson, center, sits during the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' biannual General Conference in Salt Lake City in 2019. George Frey/Getty Images

Russell M. Nelson, a former heart surgeon and longtime church leader, was 93 years old when he became president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 2018. But anyone...

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Why chromium is considered an essential nutrient, despite having no proven health benefits

  • Written by Neil Marsh, Professor of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan
imageYou're more likely to get chromium from your cookware than from your food.Fausto Favetta Photoghrapher/Moment via Getty Images

You might best know chromium as a bright, shiny metal used in bathroom and kitchen fittings. But is it also essential for your health?

In a form known as trivalent chromium, this metal is included in multivitamin pills and...

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Trump’s Gaza peace plan: A bit of the old, a bit of the new – and the same stumbling blocks

  • Written by Asher Kaufman, Professor of History and Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
imageU.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrive for a joint news conference at the White House on Sept. 29, 2025. Alex Wong/Getty Images

The latest U.S.-sponsored peace plan for the Middle East was unveiled at the White House on Sept. 29, 2025, and immediately accepted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The...

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Trump administration is on track to cut 1 in 3 EPA staffers by the end of 2025, slashing agency’s ability to keep pollution out of air and water

  • Written by Elizabeth Blum, Professor of Environmental History, Troy University
imageEnvironmental Protection Agency staff and contractors are often involved in large cleanups of toxic waste, such as after the Los Angeles fires of early 2025.Mario Tama/Getty Images

As Congress faces a Sept. 30, 2025, deadline to fund the federal government, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin has put the EPA on the chopping...

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How Dorothea Tanning’s ‘Birthday’ painting challenged male-dominated surrealism

  • Written by Sally Jane Brown, Curator, West Virginia University
imageDo the seemingly endless doorways represent a woman trapped in domesticity or infinite ways out?Philadelphia Museum of Art

When American artist Dorothea Tanning painted “Birthday” in 1942, she announced her arrival – an artistic birth, as she later described it – into the surrealist movement.

Surrealism is an avant-garde art...

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  7. Why a study claiming vaccines cause chronic illness is severely flawed – a biostatistician explains the biases and unsupported conclusions
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  9. Charlie Kirk and the making of an AI-generated martyr
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  13. Bacteria attached to charcoal could help keep an infamous ‘forever chemical’ out of waterways
  14. A Bari Weiss-led CBS News would likely look different, but how the public feels about it might not change
  15. Trump’s dip into the Nile waters dispute didn’t settle the conflict – in fact, it may have caused more ripples
  16. Civil society helps uphold democracy and provides built-in resistance to authoritarianism
  17. What parents need to know about Tylenol, autism and the difference between finding a link and finding a cause in scientific research
  18. Even a brief government shutdown might hamper morale, raise costs and reduce long-term efficiency in the federal workforce
  19. Even a government shutdown that ends quickly would hamper morale, raise costs and reduce long-term efficiency in the federal workforce
  20. Religion often shapes someone’s view of abortion – but what about a woman’s actual decision?
  21. 4 films that show how humans can fortify – or botch – their relationship with AI
  22. The science of defiance: A psychology researcher explains why people comply – and how to resist
  23. Personal scandals sink CEOs faster than financial fraud, research shows
  24. Why you seriously need to stop trying to be funny at work
  25. Banks retreat from climate change commitments – but it’s business more than politics
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  27. Why Argentina is looking to the Trump administration for a bailout − and what the US Treasury can do to help
  28. How the First Amendment protects Americans’ speech − and how it does not
  29. NASA will say goodbye to the International Space Station in 2030 − and welcome in the age of commercial space stations
  30. Trump isn’t cutting Pell Grants, after all − but other changes could complicate financial aid for some students
  31. How a devastating grape pest is reshaping vineyards across Colorado’s Western Slope
  32. 2 newly launched NASA missions will help scientists understand the influence of the Sun, both from up close and afar
  33. Detroit’s Gordie Howe bridge is poised to open as truck traffic between US-Canada slows – low-income residents are deciding whether to stay or go
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  45. Trump’s targeting of ‘enemies’ like James Comey echoes FBI’s dark history of mass surveillance, dirty tricks and perversion of justice under J. Edgar Hoover
  46. Trump’s use of FBI to target ‘enemies’ echoes FBI’s dark history of mass surveillance, dirty tricks and perversion of justice under J. Edgar Hoover
  47. Even as Jimmy Kimmel returns to the airwaves, TV networks remain more vulnerable to political pressure than ever before
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