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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....

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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...

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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

Ukraine’s Operation Spider Web destroyed more than aircraft – it tore apart the old idea that bases far behind the front lines are safe

  • Written by Benjamin Jensen, Professor of Strategic Studies at the Marine Corps University School of Advanced Warfighting; Scholar-in-Residence, American University School of International Service
imageA sitting duck? A Russian Tu-160 strategic bomber on the ground on Feb. 22, 2024.Alexander KazakovAFP via Getty Images

A series of blasts at airbases deep inside Russia on June 1, 2025, came as a rude awakening to Moscow’s military strategists. The Ukrainian strike at the heart Russia’s strategic bombing capability could also upend the...

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100 years ago, the Supreme Court made a landmark ruling on parents’ rights in education – today, another case raises new questions

  • Written by Charles J. Russo, Joseph Panzer Chair in Education and Research Professor of Law, University of Dayton
imageA selection of books that are part of the Supreme Court case Mahmoud v. Taylor are pictured on April, 15, 2025, in Washington.AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais

A century ago, the Supreme Court handed down one of its most important cases about education. On June 1, 1925, the court struck down an Oregon statute requiring all students to attend public...

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Stop the ‘good’ vs ‘bad’ snap judgments and watch your world become more interesting

  • Written by Lorraine Besser, Professor of Philosophy, Middlebury
imageSticking to just thumbs-up or thumbs-down limits how you engage with the world.PM Images/Photodisc via Getty Images

How many times have you used the words “good” or “bad” today?

From checking your weather app to monitoring the progress you’ve made on your to-do list, to scrolling through social media, opportunities to...

Read more: Stop the ‘good’ vs ‘bad’ snap judgments and watch your world become more interesting

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  2. Cuts to school lunch and food bank funding mean less fresh produce for children and families
  3. Reproducibility may be the key idea students need to balance trust in evidence with healthy skepticism
  4. In pardoning reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, Trump taps into a sense of persecution felt by his conservative Christian base
  5. How your electric bill may be paying for big data centers’ energy use
  6. Your left and right brain hear language differently − a neuroscientist explains how
  7. Memories of the good parts of using drugs can keep people hooked − altering the neurons that store them could help treat addiction
  8. ‘Loyal to the oil’ – how religion and striking it rich shape Canada’s hockey fandom
  9. What a sunny van Gogh painting of ‘The Sower’ tells us about Pope Leo’s message of hope
  10. 1 in 4 children suffers from chronic pain − school nurses could be key to helping them manage it
  11. What is vibe coding? A computer scientist explains what it means to have AI write computer code − and what risks that can entail
  12. Extreme weather’s true damage cost is often a mystery – that’s a problem for understanding storm risk, but it can be fixed
  13. Storm damage costs are often a mystery – that’s a problem for understanding extreme weather risk
  14. Supreme Court changes the game on federal environmental reviews
  15. Uncertainty at NASA − Trump withdraws his nominee for administrator while the agency faces a steep proposed budget cut
  16. We asked over 8,700 people in 6 countries to think about future generations in decision-making, and this is what we found
  17. Peace has long been elusive in rural Colombia – Black women’s community groups try to bring it closer each day
  18. A bottlenose dolphin? Or Tursiops truncatus? Why biologists give organisms those strange, unpronounceable names
  19. It’s miller moth season in Colorado – an entomologist explains why they’re important and where they’re headed
  20. The Michelin Guide is Eurocentric and elitist − yet it will soon be an arbiter of culinary excellence in Philly
  21. Is methylene blue really a brain booster? A pharmacologist explains the science
  22. Autocrats don’t act like Hitler or Stalin anymore − instead of governing with violence, they use manipulation
  23. Reducing American antisemitism requires more than condemning opposition to Israel and targeting elite universities
  24. Even if Putin and Zelenskyy do go face-to-face, don’t expect wonders − their one meeting in 2019 ended in failure
  25. California plan to ban most plants within 5 feet of homes for wildfire safety overlooks some important truths about flammability
  26. New model helps to figure out which distant planets may host life
  27. Debunking 5 myths about when your devices get wet
  28. Robots run out of energy long before they run out of work to do − feeding them could change that
  29. Is AI sparking a cognitive revolution that will lead to mediocrity and conformity?
  30. Our trans health study was terminated by the government – the effects of abrupt NIH grant cuts ripple across science and society
  31. 3 ways the government can silence opinions it disagrees with, without using censorship
  32. Veterans’ protests planned for D-Day latest in nearly 250 years of fighting for their benefits
  33. If it looks like a dire wolf, is it a dire wolf? How to define a species is a scientific and philosophical question
  34. Detroit’s population grew in 2023, 2024 − a strategy to welcome immigrants helps explain the turnaround from decades of population decline
  35. Prime numbers, the building blocks of mathematics, have fascinated for centuries − now technology is revolutionizing the search for them
  36. Hurricane season is here, but FEMA’s policy change could leave low-income areas less protected
  37. Millions of US children have parents with substance use disorder, and the consequences are staggering − new research
  38. Are hegemonies a relic of the past? The role of coercion and consent in global domination
  39. The biggest barrier to AI adoption in the business world isn’t tech – it’s user confidence
  40. Solar panels’ shade helps boost Colorado grassland productivity in dry years
  41. Surge of ICE agreements with local police aim to increase deportations, but many police forces have found they undermine public safety
  42. Trump’s white genocide claims about South Africa have deep roots in American history
  43. Beyond the backlash: What evidence shows about the economic impact of DEI
  44. Like today’s selfie-takers, Walt Whitman used photography to curate his image – but ended up more lost than found
  45. The rise and fall – and rise again – of white-tailed deer
  46. What Peru’s Virgen de la Puerta represents about unity and inclusion
  47. Weaponized storytelling: How AI is helping researchers sniff out disinformation campaigns
  48. There’s no evidence work requirements for Medicaid recipients will boost employment, but they are a key piece of Republican spending bill
  49. How trafficked American guns fuel Mexico’s cartel violence – podcast
  50. More Colorado workplaces are becoming safe places for employees in recovery