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China’s muted response over war in Iran reflects Beijing’s delicate calculus as a concerned onlooker

  • Written by John Calabrese, Assistant Professor, School of Public Affairs and Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Middle East Institute, American University

China has perfected the role of concerned onlooker as the Middle East conflict spreads across the region.

With no direct role in the conflict and some 4,200 miles (6,800 kilometers) away from the action, Beijing has a little more breathing room to work out the calculus on how the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran affects its interests. Yet the recent...

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How Instagram addictiveness lawsuit could reshape social media – platform design meets product liability

  • Written by Carolina Rossini, Professor of Practice and Director for Program, Public Interest Technology Initiative, UMass Amherst
imageIs the social media platform she's using, rather than the content she's viewing, a threat to her well-being?Fiordaliso/Moment via Getty Images

A Los Angeles courtroom is hosting what may become the most consequential legal challenge Big Tech has ever faced.

This is an inflection point in the global debate over Big Tech liability: For the first...

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Today’s obsession with authenticity isn’t new – being true to yourself has troubled philosophers for centuries

  • Written by Kenneth Andrew Andres Leonardo, Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Government, Hamilton College
imageStressing over authenticity isn't unique to the social media age.Qi Yang/Moment via Getty Images

Today’s youth cherish “authenticity,” but is it a virtue? According to a report from Ernst & Young, more than 9 in 10 Gen Z respondents indicated that being authentic and true to yourself is extremely or very important. In fact,...

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Venezuela’s fragile environment faces rising risks as US pushes for oil and critical minerals and illegal gold mining spreads

  • Written by Antonio Machado Allison, Professor of Environment and Latin American Studies, Wesleyan University
imageOpen pit gold mines have spread across large areas of the Orinoco Mining Belt in recent years.Magda Gibelli / AFP via Getty Images

Venezuela’s Orinoco River Basin is a wild land of lush forests, grasslands and a vast delta of jungle wetlands teeming with wildlife. River dolphins and endangered Orinoco crocodiles ply its waterways, and over...

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When Washington and the states are in conflict, the ultimate winner is not always certain

  • Written by Kenneth Michael White, Associate Professor of Political Science & Criminal Justice, Kennesaw State University
imageTrump administration immigration policies have received pushback from leaders of sanctuary jurisdictions, as well as protesters.AP Photo/Ryan Murphy

The Trump administration’s aggressive policies on immigration are receiving pushback not just on Capitol Hill but across the country. Democratic leaders in multiple states are refusing to...

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Telehealth is widely used by older adults insured by Medicare, new research shows

  • Written by Terrence Liu, Assistant Professor, University of Utah
imageDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government expanded access to telehealth for older adults insured by Medicare. FatCamera/E+ via Getty Images

Americans age 65 and older who are insured by Medicare logged about 60 million telehealth visits annually between 2021 and 2023 – about 31 million for mental health and 29 million for other...

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Public health needs steady budgets – and federal funding uncertainty causes real harms, even if the money is later restored

  • Written by Max Crowley, Professor of Human Development, Family Studies and Public Policy, Penn State
imageCommunities rely on vaccination clinics, restaurant inspections and disease surveillance systems run by local and state public health departments. Sean Rayford/Stringer via Getty Images

Since early 2025, several large federal health grants to states have been suspended and then restored after legal challenges. On Feb. 13, 2026, for example, the...

Read more: Public health needs steady budgets – and federal funding uncertainty causes real harms, even if...

Family-friendly workplaces are great − but ‘families of 1’ get ignored

  • Written by Peter McGraw, Professor of Marketing and Psychology, University of Colorado Boulder
imageSingle people without kids are a growing share of the workforce.Luis Alvarez/DigitalVision via Getty Images

In 1960, 72% of adults were married, and over 90% would go on to marry. HR policies and management practices back then catered to nuclear families with a lone, male breadwinner.

Today, dual-career couples and working mothers are common,...

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Measuring poverty on a spectrum instead of an arbitrary line conveys a more accurate picture of inequality

  • Written by Olivier Sterck, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Oxford
imageDoes drawing a line make sense at any step of the way to wealth?fatido/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Michael W. Green, a Wall Street investor, created a buzz in late 2025 by arguing that the U.S. poverty line should be jacked up to US$140,000 for a family of four. Currently, a family of that size has to be eking by on $33,000 a year to qualify as...

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Trump offered a restrictive deal to universities that almost all rejected – but the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education may not be entirely dead

  • Written by Fred L. Pincus, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
imageOnly three universities agreed to the higher education compact, which offered benefits in federal funding in exchange for major policy and administrative changes at schools. Alina Naumova/iStock/Getty Images Plus

In October 2025, the Trump administration made a controversial proposal to nine major colleges and universities, including Dartmouth...

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  2. Persian Gulf desalination plants could become military targets in regional war
  3. Researchers are combining drones and AI to make removing land mines faster and safer
  4. Why are some stars always visible while others come and go with the seasons?
  5. How Denver’s Northeast Park Hill community reduced youth violence by 75%
  6. Operational secrecy kept the US from making evacuation plans – and that means Americans in the Mideast could wait days
  7. Billions of dollars, decades of progress spent eliminating devastating diseases may be lost with undoing of USAID
  8. We designed an AI tutor that helps college students reason rather than give them answers
  9. Nearly a third of Pennsylvania gamblers are at risk of problem gambling − but few seek treatment
  10. 2025 was hotter than it should have been – 5 influences and a dirty surprise offer clues to what’s ahead
  11. GLP-1 drugs may fight addiction across every major substance, according to a study of 600,000 people
  12. Hezbollah − degraded, weakened but not yet disarmed − destabilizes Lebanon once again
  13. When unpaid cooking, cleaning and child care get a dollar value, income inequality in the US shrinks – but the gap has grown since 1965
  14. Trauma patients recover faster when medical teams know each other well, new study finds
  15. Housing First helps people find permanent homes in Detroit − but HUD plans to divert funds to short-term solutions
  16. Congress once fought to limit a president’s war powers − more than 50 years later, its successors are less willing to assert their authority
  17. AI and 3D printing help researchers create heat- and pressure-resistant materials for aerospace and defense applications
  18. With Artemis II facing delays, NASA announces big structural changes to the lunar program
  19. I study why zebrafish larva prefer to circle left or right, to understand how and why human brains encode right- and left-handedness
  20. Brazilian jiu-jitsu is having its #MeToo moment
  21. Front lines of humor: Dark humor voices Ukrainians’ hopes for victory
  22. Far from random, China’s global port network is clustering near the world’s riskiest trade routes
  23. CIA agents successfully executed a plan for regime change in Iran in 1953 – but Trump hasn’t revealed any signs of a plan
  24. Public defender shortage is leading to hundreds of criminal cases being dismissed
  25. Welcome to the ‘gray zone’ − home to nefarious international acts that fall short of outright conflict
  26. Stressed out by politics? You’re not imagining it, and research shows that social media is largely to blame
  27. Formerly incarcerated Black men say they’re ‘doing OK’ while trying to cope with depression and PTSD
  28. Are heroes born or made? Role models and training can prepare ordinary people to take heroic action
  29. A Plan B for space? On the risks of concentrating national space power in private hands
  30. The inspiring and tragic story of Mabel Stark, America’s most famous female tiger trainer
  31. Iran’s targeting of airport, ports and hotels in reaction to US strikes has forced Gulf nations onto front lines of a war they want no part in
  32. ‘Destruction is not the same as political success’: US bombing of Iran shows little evidence of endgame strategy
  33. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s killing plays into Shiite Islam’s reverence for martyrs, but not for all Iranians
  34. Why are so many statues naked? An art historian explains this tradition’s ancient roots
  35. What decades of research reveal about involuntary substance use treatment – and why evidence points elsewhere
  36. Free 10-minute online programs aimed at overcoming depression led to real improvements – new research
  37. The nation is missing millions of voters due to lack of rights for former felons
  38. Failure of US-Iran talks was all too predictable — but turning to military strikes creates dangerous unknowns
  39. Kansas revoked transgender people’s IDs overnight – researchers anticipate cascading health and social consequences
  40. Despite massive US attack and death of ayatollah, regime change in Iran is unlikely
  41. Iran will respond to US-Israeli strikes as existential threats to the regime – because they are
  42. Cuba’s speedboat shootout recalls long history of exile groups engaged in covert ops aimed at regime change
  43. Drug company ads are easy to blame for misleading patients and raising costs, but research shows they do help patients get needed treatment
  44. Tiny recording backpacks reveal bats’ surprising hunting strategy
  45. Nanoparticles and artificial intelligence can help researchers detect pollutants in water, soil and blood
  46. Bad Bunny says reggaeton is Puerto Rican, but it was born in Panama
  47. How the Seattle Seahawks’ sale will score a touchdown for charity 8 years after Paul Allen’s death
  48. There aren’t enough geriatricians – here’s how older adults can still get the right care
  49. Former Harvard president Summers’ soft landing after Epstein revelations is case study of economics’ trouble with misbehaving men
  50. Will AI accelerate or undermine the way humans have always innovated?