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After more than 40 years, the federal right to free education for immigrant students finds itself in the crosshairs of conservatives

  • Written by Tara Sonenshine, Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice in Public Diplomacy, Tufts University
imageTexas eyes public school tuition for children whose parents entered the U.S. illegally. SDI Productions via Getty Images

Texas once had a law that allowed public schools to charge tuition for undocumented immigrant families to send their children to school. The rationale was that taxpayer dollars should not be spent educating children whose...

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Heritage Foundation’s ‘Project 2025’ is just the latest action plan from a group with an over 50-year history of steering GOP lawmaking

  • Written by Zachary Albert, Assistant Professor of Politics, Brandeis University
imagePeople walk past a Heritage Foundation advertisement at the Milwaukee International Airport on July 12, 2024.Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

As the 2024 presidential election heats up, some people are hearing about the Heritage Foundation for the first time. The conservative think tank has a new, ambitious and controversial policy plan, Project...

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Late bedtimes and not enough sleep can harm developing brains – and poorer kids are more at risk

  • Written by Emily C. Merz, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Colorado State University
imagePoor sleep can have adverse effects on brain development.Alex Potemkin/E+ via Getty Images

Shorter sleep and later bedtimes are linked to potentially harmful functional changes to parts of the brain important for coping with stress and controlling negative emotions, our recently published research found. And children in families with low economic...

Read more: Late bedtimes and not enough sleep can harm developing brains – and poorer kids are more at risk

Republicans wary of Republicans – how politics became a clue about infection risk during the pandemic

  • Written by Ahra Ko, Research Project Manager for the Behavior Change for Good Initiative, University of Pennsylvania
imageThe behavioral immune system learned a new proxy for disease risk during the COVID pandemic.gilaxi/E+ via Getty Images

Americans who felt most vulnerable during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic perceived Republicans as infection risks, leading to greater disgust and avoidance of them – regardless of their own political party. Even...

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Pennsylvania continues tradition as ‘keystone state’ in presidential elections

  • Written by Robert Speel, Associate Professor of Political Science, Erie Campus, Penn State

Pennsylvania’s role as a swing state in presidential elections is a modern continuation of a characteristic noted as early as 1802. At a rally celebrating the election victory of President Thomas Jefferson, Pennsylvania was reportedly referred to as “the keystone of the federal union” – a keystone being the central stone in...

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What the Catholic Church says about political violence and the need to forgive – even would-be assassins

  • Written by Joanne M. Pierce, Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
imageFormer President Donald Trump is helped off the stage after he was shot at a campaign event in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024.AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar

Following the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, the Vatican released a statement on July 14, 2024, condemning the violence. The attack, it said, “wounds people...

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‘MAGA BLACK’ hats, clear swag bags, the first Trump/Vance signs: Highlights of what the Smithsonian is archiving from the Republican convention

  • Written by Naomi Schalit, Senior Editor, Politics + Democracy, The Conversation US
imageGOP 2024 Convention attendees use clear plastic tote bags, usually with convention-related names or terms.AP Photo/Jae C. Hong

Political history curators from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History are at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, collecting items from clothing to signs that will help tell the story of...

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Baby bull sharks are thriving in Texas and Alabama bays as the Gulf of Mexico warms

  • Written by James Marcus Drymon, Associate Extension Professor in Marine Fisheries Ecology, Mississippi State University
imageA scientist checks on a young bull shark in Texas.Philip Matich

In late spring, estuaries along the U.S. Gulf Coast come alive with newborn fish and other sea life. While some species have struggled to adjust to the region’s rising water temperatures in recent years, one is thriving: juvenile bull sharks.

We study this iconic shark species,...

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How Trump’s appeal to nostalgia deliberately evokes America’s more-racist, more-sexist past

  • Written by Spencer Goidel, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Auburn University
imageFormer President Donald Trump's rallies evoke nostalgia and patriotism.AP Photo/Steve Helber

There’s a reason Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign is working hard to evoke nostalgia: People who are nostalgic – meaning, people who long for America’s “good old days” – were more likely to vote for...

Read more: How Trump’s appeal to nostalgia deliberately evokes America’s more-racist, more-sexist past

AI mass surveillance at Paris Olympics – a legal scholar on the security boon and privacy nightmare

  • Written by Anne Toomey McKenna, Visiting Professor of Law, University of Richmond
imageIt won't be just human eyes monitoring the thousands of security cameras at the Paris Olympics.Martin Bureau/AFP via Getty Images

The 2024 Paris Olympics is drawing the eyes of the world as thousands of athletes and support personnel and hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the globe converge in France. It’s not just the eyes of the...

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  2. The Black fugitive who inspired ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ and the end of US slavery
  3. A short history of the rise, fall and return of Detroit’s Michigan Central Station
  4. Stroke survivors may be saddled with an invisible disability known as spatial neglect – but a simple treatment offers significant improvement
  5. Want to spur your child’s intellectual development? Use audiobooks instead of videos
  6. The Large Hadron Collider gets reset and refreshed each year – a CERN physicist explains how the team uses subatomic splashes to restart the experiments
  7. America faces a power disconnection crisis amid dangerous heat: In 27 states, utilities can shut off electricity for nonpayment even in a heat wave
  8. Social media and political violence – how to break the cycle
  9. Nutrition Facts labels have a complicated legacy – a historian explains the science and politics of translating food into information
  10. Target just became the latest US retailer to stop accepting payment by checks. Why have so many stores given up on them?
  11. Trump-appointed federal judge rules Trump’s classified document case is unconstitutional – here’s how special counsels have been authorized before
  12. How to protect your home from wildfires – here’s what fire prevention experts say is most important
  13. New research suggests estrogen and progesterone could play role in opioid addiction and relapse
  14. Trump’s assassination attempt reveals a major security breakdown – but doesn’t necessarily heighten the risk for political violence, a former FBI official explains
  15. Trump assassination attempt reveals a major security breakdown – but doesn’t necessarily heighten the risk for political violence, a former FBI official explains
  16. Electing a virtuous president would make immunity irrelevant, writes a political philosopher
  17. Decades after Billie Holiday’s death, ‘Strange Fruit’ is still a searing testament to injustice – and of faithful solidarity with suffering
  18. How Smithsonian curators scavenge political conventions to explain the present to the future and save everything from hats to buttons to umbrellas to soap
  19. Could people turn Mars into another Earth? Here’s what it would take to transform its barren landscape into a life-friendly world
  20. Flying in helicopters is safer than you might think – an aerospace engineer explains the technology and training that make it so
  21. Michigan’s thousands of farmworkers are unprotected, poorly paid, uncounted and often exploited
  22. ‘One inch from a potential civil war’ – near miss in Trump shooting is also a close call for American democracy
  23. Biden isn’t the first to struggle to pop the presidential bubble that divides him from the public
  24. Supermassive black holes have masses of more than a million suns – but their growth has slowed as the universe has aged
  25. As nativist politics surge across Europe, soccer’s ‘Euros’ showcase a more benign form of nationalism
  26. Immigrant moms feel unsafe and unheard when seeking pregnancy care – here’s how they’d improve Philly’s health care system
  27. Meteorites from Mars help scientists understand the red planet’s interior
  28. Donald Trump wants to reinstate a spoils system in federal government by hiring political loyalists regardless of competence
  29. Odds are that gambling on the Biden/Trump competition will further reduce the presidential campaign to a horse race
  30. Will a market crash one day be pinned on the Supreme Court? An accounting expert explains why recent rulings have him worried
  31. Abortion restrictions harm mental health, with low-income women hardest hit
  32. Trump’s raised fist - how one gesture can be used by Republicans, socialists, fascists, white supremacists and Black athletes
  33. AI supercharges data center energy use – straining the grid and slowing sustainability efforts
  34. Storytelling strategies make communication about science more compelling
  35. Trump’s raised fist is a go-to gesture with a long history of different meanings
  36. What do storm chasers really do? Two tornado scientists take us inside the chase and tools for studying twisters
  37. Why is Congress filled with old people?
  38. How political party platforms – like the Republicans’ Trump-inspired one for 2024 – can help voters understand American politics
  39. A new ‘Twisters’ movie is coming – two tornado scientists take us inside the world of real storm chasing
  40. The science behind Ariana Grande’s vocal metamorphosis
  41. Inequality in life – and death: Newspaper obituaries have long discriminated against women
  42. Mike Bloomberg’s $1B gift to Johns Hopkins will make med school free for most students – a philanthropy expert explains why that matters
  43. Can humanity address climate change without believing it? Medical history suggests it is possible
  44. At the Olympics, athletes show guts, glory – and a lot of ink, including tattoos that profess their faith
  45. Stricter monitoring of tween and teen internet use may not always be better
  46. Toxoplasma is a common parasite that causes birth defects – but the US doesn’t screen for it during pregnancy
  47. Why are journalists obsessed with Biden’s age? It’s because they’ve finally found an interesting election story
  48. Surprise: American voters actually largely agree on many issues, including topics like abortion, immigration and wealth inequality
  49. From the ’60s till now, TV news coverage of large-scale university protests doesn’t look so different
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