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Stripping federal protection for clean water harms just about everyone, especially already vulnerable communities

  • Written by Jeremy Orr, Adjunct Professor of Law, Michigan State University
imageA Des Moines Water Works employee takes samples from a nearby river for analysis. The regional water utility delivers drinking water to more than 500,000 Iowans.AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall

Before Congress passed the Clean Water Act in 1972, U.S. factories and cities could pipe their pollution directly into waterways. Rivers, including the Potomac...

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I study local government and Hurricane Helene forced me from my home − here’s how rural towns and counties in North Carolina and beyond cooperate to rebuild

  • Written by Jay Rickabaugh, Assistant Professor of Public Administration, North Carolina State University

Last year was a record year for disasters in the United States. A new report from the British charity International Institute for Environment and Development finds that 90 disasters were declared nationwide in 2024, from wildfires in California to Hurricane Helene in North Carolina.

The average number of annual disasters in the U.S. is about 55.

Th...

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A warning for Democrats from the Gilded Age and the 1896 election

  • Written by Adam M. Silver, Associate Professor of Political Science, Emmanuel College
imageChief Justice Melville Weston Fuller administers the oath of office to William McKinley during his presidential inauguration in 1897, as outgoing President Grover Cleveland looks on.AP Photo/Library of Congress

More than five months after President Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris, Democrats are still trying to understand why they lost the...

Read more: A warning for Democrats from the Gilded Age and the 1896 election

Habeas corpus: A thousand-year-old legal principle for defending rights that’s getting a workout under the Trump administration

  • Written by Andrea Seielstad, Professor of Law, University of Dayton
imageTwo Latin words – 'habeas corpus' – protect any person, whether citizen or not, from being illegally confined.deepblue4you, iStock / Getty Images Plus

In some parts of the world, a person may be secreted away or imprisoned by the government without any advanced notification of wrongdoing or chance to make a defense. This has not been...

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Reducing diversity, equity and inclusion to a catchphrase undermines its true purpose

  • Written by Detris Honora Adelabu, Clinical Professor of Applied Human Development, Boston University
imageMore than 440 anti-DEI bills have been introduced in 42 states since the 2023 Supreme Court decision that ended race-conscious college admissions.J Studios/Getty Images

Diversity, equity and inclusion, which has become the catchphrase DEI, represents a commitment to fairness and to tackling racism and exclusionary policies that limit access to...

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Perfect brownies baked at high altitude are possible thanks to Colorado’s home economics pioneer Inga Allison

  • Written by Tobi Jacobi, Professor of English, Colorado State University
imageStudents work in the high-altitude baking laboratory.Archives and Special Collections, Colorado State University

Many bakers working at high altitudes have carefully followed a standard recipe only to reach into the oven to find a sunken cake, flat cookies or dry muffins.

Experienced mountain bakers know they need a few tricks to achieve the same...

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Some politicians who share harmful information are rewarded with more clicks, study finds

  • Written by Yu-Ru Lin, Associate Professor of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh
imageThe likes pour in for some politicians who post misinformation.J Studios/DigitalVision via Getty Images

What happens when politicians post false or toxic messages online? My team and I found evidence that suggests U.S. state legislators can increase or decrease their public visibility by sharing unverified claims or using uncivil language during...

Read more: Some politicians who share harmful information are rewarded with more clicks, study finds

Make Russia Medieval Again! How Putin is seeking to remold society, with a little help from Ivan the Terrible

  • Written by Dina Khapaeva, Professor of Cultural Studies, Georgia Institute of Technology
imageRussian President Vladimir Putin has draped himself in old-fashioned, medieval conceptions of Russian history to add symbolic weight to his authoritarian government.AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko

Beginning in September 2025, Russian middle and high school students will be handed a new textbook titled “My Family.”

Published in March...

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Lawful permanent residents like Mahmoud Khalil have a right to freedom of speech – but does that protect them from deportation?

  • Written by Erin Corcoran, Professor of immigration, refguee and asylum law, University of Notre Dame
imageThe detention of noncitizen university students after their Palestinian rights activism raises questions about the limits of free speech. Rob Dobi/Moment/Getty Images

The Trump administration has revoked the visas of more than 1,000 foreign university students since January 2025. Many of the individual cases that have made headlines center on...

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  1. Federal laws don’t ban rollbacks of environmental protection, but they don’t make it easy
  2. Why don’t humans have hair all over their bodies? A biologist explains our lack of fur
  3. Endowments aren’t blank checks – but universities can rely on them more heavily in turbulent times
  4. Exposure to perceptible temperature rise increases concern about climate change, higher education adds to understanding
  5. What will happen at the funeral of Pope Francis
  6. How the next pope will be elected – what goes on at the conclave
  7. Scientists found a potential sign of life on a distant planet – an astronomer explains why many are still skeptical
  8. ‘I never issued a criminal contempt citation in 19 ½ years on the bench’ – a former federal judge looks at the ‘relentless bad behavior’ of the Trump administration in court
  9. As views on spanking shift worldwide, most US adults support it, and 19 states allow physical punishment in schools
  10. Crime is nonpartisan and the blame game on crime in cities is wrong – on both sides
  11. With federal funding in question, artists can navigate a perilous future by looking to the past
  12. Lawsuits seeking to address climate change have promise but face uncertain future
  13. All models are wrong − a computational modeling expert explains how engineers make them useful
  14. Trump’s attacks on central bank threaten its independence − and that isn’t good news for sound economic stewardship (or battling inflation)
  15. Claims of ‘anti-Christian bias’ sound to some voters like a message about race, not just religion
  16. How does your brain create new memories? Neuroscientists discover ‘rules’ for how neurons encode new information
  17. Patriots’ Day: How far-right groups hijack history and patriotic symbols to advance their cause, according to an expert on extremism
  18. International students infuse tens of millions of dollars into local economies across the US. What happens if they stay home?
  19. Popular AIs head-to-head: OpenAI beats DeepSeek on sentence-level reasoning
  20. Why people with autism struggle to get hired − and how businesses can help by changing how they look at job interviews
  21. Appliance efficiency standards save consumers billions, reduce pollution and fight climate change
  22. Why deregulating online platforms is actually bad for free speech
  23. Ethical leadership can boost well-being and performance in remote work environments
  24. Is a ‘friend-apist’ what we really want from therapy?
  25. Federal judge finds ‘probable cause’ to hold Trump administration in contempt – a legal scholar explains what this means
  26. How single-stream recycling works − your choices can make it better
  27. The sudden dismissal of public records staff at health agencies threatens government accountability
  28. Wide variety of old-growth ecosystems across the US makes their conservation a complex challenge
  29. Railways were essential to carrying out the Holocaust – decades later, corporate reckoning continues
  30. 200 years ago, France extorted Haiti in one of history’s greatest heists – and Haitians want reparations
  31. Cory Booker’s long speech offers a strategy for Trump opponents in a fragmented media landscape
  32. Miami researchers are testing a textured seawall designed to hold back water and create a home for marine organisms
  33. Dark energy may have once been ‘springier’ than it is today − DESI cosmologists explain what their collaboration’s new measurement says about the universe’s history
  34. Giving cash to families in poor, rural communities can help bring down child marriage rates – new research
  35. Des Moines food pantries face spiking demand as the Iowa region’s SNAP enrollment declines
  36. Beggar thy neighbor, harm thyself: Tariffs like Trump’s come with pitfalls, history shows
  37. 25 years of Everglades restoration has improved drinking water for millions in Florida, but a new risk is rising
  38. A need for chaos powers some Americans’ support for Elon Musk taking a chainsaw to the US government
  39. Preventive care may no longer be free in 2026 because of HIV stigma − unless the Trump administration successfully defends the ACA
  40. How bird flu differs from seasonal flu − an infectious disease researcher explains
  41. Educators find creative work-arounds to new laws that restrict what they can teach
  42. Volcanic ash is a silent killer, more so than lava: What Alaska needs to know with Mount Spurr likely to erupt
  43. The Thucydides Trap: Vital lessons from ancient Greece for China and the US … or a load of old claptrap?
  44. On stage but out of the spotlight − the quiet struggle of being an opening act
  45. Why the meteorites that hit Earth have less water than the asteroid bits brought back by space probes – a planetary scientist explains new research
  46. Cambodia’s haunted present: 50 years after Khmer Rouge’s rise, murderous legacy looms large
  47. Social Security’s trust fund could run out of money sooner than expected due to changes in taxes and benefits
  48. 401(k) plans and stock market volatility: What you need to know
  49. Perceived consensus drives moral intolerance in a time of identity-driven politics and online bubbles
  50. Getting AIs working toward human goals − study shows how to measure misalignment