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25 million people lost Medicaid after the COVID-19 pandemic — and state policies shaped who stayed covered

  • Written by Aparna Soni, Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, Indiana University
imageMedicaid enrollment surged during the COVID-19 pandemic.SDI Productions/E+ via Getty Images

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of people covered by Medicaid rose month after month – an unusual pattern for the government’s insurance program for people with low incomes and disabilities.

Why? A policy of continuous coverage during...

Read more: 25 million people lost Medicaid after the COVID-19 pandemic — and state policies shaped who stayed...

Gray whales are dying in San Francisco Bay at an alarming rate – this isn’t normal

  • Written by Josie Slaathaug, Graduate Student in Marine Biology, Sonoma State University
imageGray whales have unique markings, making it possible to track each one in the bay.Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images

At least six gray whales have died in San Francisco Bay from mid-March to early April 2026. These deaths follow a pattern over the past few years, and they are raising concerns among marine biologists like...

Read more: Gray whales are dying in San Francisco Bay at an alarming rate – this isn’t normal

The enduring legacy of medieval Christian depictions of Islam in today’s political discourse

  • Written by Anna Piela, Visiting Scholar in Religious Studies and Gender, Northwestern University
imageA stained-glass window in the Cathedral of Brussels depicting the 'Siege of Jerusalem' by the Crusaders in the 11th century. Jorisvo/iStock / Getty Images Plus

The war with Iran is not just a geopolitical conflict. We see religious rhetoric used to cast strategic interests as a moral or sacred matter.

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson described...

Read more: The enduring legacy of medieval Christian depictions of Islam in today’s political discourse

District school boards have become political hotbeds for book bans and more – here’s what they actually do

  • Written by Carrie Sampson, Assistant Professor in the Division of Educational Leadership and Innovation, Arizona State University
imagePeople hold signs during a Grossmont Union High School District board meeting in El Cajon, Calif., in July 2025. Meg McLaughlin/The San Diego Union-Tribune via Getty Images

Election races for local school boards have become hotly contested in many states as they have become forums for debates over gender-identity discussions, immigrant students and...

Read more: District school boards have become political hotbeds for book bans and more – here’s what they...

4 ways the war in Iran has weakened the United States in the great power game

  • Written by Jeffrey Taliaferro, Professor of Political Science, Tufts University
imageChina and Russia view the U.S. grand strategy as increasingly out of focus.AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”

Napoleon Bonaparte’s maxim may well have been in the minds of policymakers in Moscow and Beijing these past weeks, as the U.S. war in Iran dragged on. And now that a...

Read more: 4 ways the war in Iran has weakened the United States in the great power game

Artemis II crew used modern photography to tell the visual story of their lunar journey – and update some classic Apollo images

  • Written by Jennifer Levasseur, Curator of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
imageNASA astronaut Christina Koch gazes at Earth on April 2, 2026, taken with an iPhone 17 Pro Max.NASA

At this point in NASA’s human spaceflight story, researchers have a substantial amount of material – documents, artifacts and images – with which to tell the stories of past flights to space. But with NASA’s Artemis II mission...

Read more: Artemis II crew used modern photography to tell the visual story of their lunar journey – and...

Artemis II moonshot reflects a spacefaring vision present in Jules Verne’s 19th-century novel

  • Written by Anastasia Klimchynskaya, Assistant Professor of English, Illinois Wesleyan University
imageThe 'Earthset' photo from the Artemis II crew's lunar flyby in April 2026. NASA

With the launch of NASA’s Artemis II mission on April 1, 2026, human beings have finally returned to the Moon for the first time in 50 years – since the age of Apollo.

When Apollo 11 first landed on the lunar surface, the astronauts portrayed their...

Read more: Artemis II moonshot reflects a spacefaring vision present in Jules Verne’s 19th-century novel

US ceasefire with Iran: What’s next? A former diplomat explains 3 possible scenarios

  • Written by Donald Heflin, Executive Director of the Edward R. Murrow Center and Senior Fellow of Diplomatic Practice, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
imageIranians hold national flags in Tehran's Revolution Square on April 8, 2026, after the United States and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire. Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images

President Donald Trump on April 7, 2026, announced a ceasefire between the United States and Iran, after more than a month of war marked by U.S. and Israeli strikes against Ira...

Read more: US ceasefire with Iran: What’s next? A former diplomat explains 3 possible scenarios

In his efforts to remake federal architecture, Trump repudiates the ‘republican ideals’ that have long informed it

  • Written by Kevin D. Murphy, Professor and Chair of History of Art, Vanderbilt University
imageWork crews prepare for the construction of a new ballroom after the demolition of the East Wing of the White House in October 2025.Andrew Leyden/Getty Images

Sand was thrown in the gears of President Donald Trump’s grand White House ballroom plans on March 31, 2026, when U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon ordered a pause on construction.

T...

Read more: In his efforts to remake federal architecture, Trump repudiates the ‘republican ideals’ that have...

I found a new meteor shower, and it comes from an asteroid getting broken down by the Sun

  • Written by Patrick M. Shober, Postdoctoral Fellow in Planetary Sciences, NASA
imageThis composite image shows the Geminid meteors, captured in 2020 using Global Meteor Network software. Aleksandar Merlak

Across the Earth, every night, thousands of automated stargazers are waiting to take pictures of shooting stars. I am one of the scientists who study these meteors.

Most movies and news alerts focus on large asteroids that could...

Read more: I found a new meteor shower, and it comes from an asteroid getting broken down by the Sun

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  2. Doctors can refuse to treat LGBTQ+ patients in several states – these religious exemption laws lead to drops in HIV testing
  3. Tobacco is still one of the world’s top killers – here are the key obstacles to enacting generational smoking bans
  4. What declining vaccination rates mean for families in Allegheny County – where 1 in 3 kindergarten classrooms lack herd immunity for measles
  5. Health care sticker shock has become the norm, but talking to your doctor about costs can help you rein it in
  6. After ceasefire, negotiating a lasting deal with Iran would require overcoming regional rivalries and strategic incoherence
  7. 80 years later, scholarship is breaking silence on women’s suffering and strength at Treblinka – including their role in its uprising
  8. It’s OK to love all the bees (the honey bees, too)
  9. We collected data on how 779 Michigan school districts are regulating student cellphones − here are the trends
  10. AI can design and run thousands of lab experiments without human hands. Humanity isn’t ready for the new risks this brings to biology
  11. Psilocybin mushrooms are going mainstream, but scientific research and regulation lag behind
  12. What a Chinese crackdown on corruption meant for Beijing’s high-end restaurant market
  13. Standards-based grading offers a different model of assessing student learning in the classroom
  14. Trump administration’s lawsuits against Harvard and UCLA have roots in a decades-old fight over civil rights law
  15. Pope Leo XIV’s Africa journey: How each stop reflects his message of peace
  16. The good life requires two things, self-knowledge and friends – you can’t have one without the other
  17. Israeli threats to occupy or annex south Lebanon dust off a decades-old playbook
  18. Presidential words can turn the unthinkable into the thinkable − for better or for worse
  19. Philadelphia’s 40-year history of protecting undocumented immigrants began with churches hiding refugees from El Salvador
  20. Mutual aid and self-sufficiency are key to life near USSR’s contaminated nuclear test zone in Kazakhstan
  21. City animals act in the same brazen ways around the world
  22. Water conservation works, but climate change is outpacing it: Phoenix, Denver and Las Vegas offer a glimpse of the future
  23. From a vaccine mascot to business leadership, lessons for the US from Brazil’s public health system in building public trust and keeping it
  24. Why Americans are buying $22 smoothies despite feeling terrible about the economy
  25. When a president is unfit for office, here’s what the Constitution says can happen
  26. Why the Persian Gulf has more oil and gas than anywhere else on Earth
  27. ¡Ándale! ¡Arriba! Speedy Gonzales set to make his triumphant return to the silver screen
  28. Hosting the NFL draft is less about weekend beer sales and more about long-term brand value
  29. Israel’s death penalty law has little to do with criminal justice and everything to do with ethno-nationalism
  30. 1776’s Declaration of Independence inspired Washington’s troops to fight against the odds – and also helped bring in powerful allies
  31. US refugee policy for white South Africans is part of a century-long effort to keep some English-speaking nations white
  32. AI is reengineering drug discovery by speeding up testing and scanning petabytes of data for connections between diseases
  33. Massive eye drop recall reflects ongoing issues with manufacturing and FDA inspection
  34. We teach at a Florida university that agreed to cooperate with ICE – and we worry that it is making our students feel less safe
  35. How does spider venom damage human cells? Researchers uncover the killer mechanism of recluse spider toxin
  36. Hormuz closure threatens the global food supply – why grocery price hikes are coming
  37. Philadelphia’s founding years were rife with conspiracy fears about ‘godless’ Freemasons and the Illuminati
  38. What is CREC and how does it shape Pete Hegseth’s religious rhetoric?
  39. What I learned from analyzing 789 ‘Shark Tank’ pitches: Narcissists get funding if they’re not arrogant or defensive
  40. About 80% of breast cancer biopsies turn out benign – new imaging tool promises clearer diagnoses and fewer biopsies
  41. Teenagers and younger kids are learning coded predator phrases like ‘MAP’ online, long before their parents have even heard of it
  42. What gig workers and employees who get tips need to know about the new no-tax-on-tips tax break
  43. Lebanon’s political elites are using displacement and humanitarian crisis to delay elections again
  44. US and Iran: A brief history of how decades of mistrust and bad blood led to open warfare
  45. What a US attorney general actually does – a law professor spells it out
  46. Toxic dust from California’s shrinking Salton Sea is harming children’s lung growth – our study tracked the impact in 700 kids
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  48. Supreme Court ruling on Colorado conversion therapy case is not a clear win for conservatives
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