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The only thing limiting Taylor Swift’s popularity is partisan polarization

  • Written by Laurel Elder, Professor of Political Science, Hartwick College
imageAround the world, Taylor Swift's fan base skews female.AP Photo/Heinz Peter Bader

Taylor Swift’s latest album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” generated a cultural whirlwind: chart-topping success, social media saturation and frenzied debate over her artistic evolution.

Nonetheless, despite this warm reception, opinions on Swift are...

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Trump’s stated reasons for taking Greenland are wrong – but the tactics fit with the plan to limit China’s economic interests

  • Written by Steven Lamy, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Relations and Spatial Sciences, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
imagePeople protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's policy toward Greenland in front of the U.S. consulate in Nuuk, Greenland, on Jan. 17, 2026.AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka

In 2019, during his first term, U.S. President Donald Trump expressed a desire to buy Greenland, which has been a part of Denmark for some 300 years. Danes and Greenlanders quickl...

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The world is in water bankruptcy, UN scientists report – here’s what that means

  • Written by Kaveh Madani, Director of the Institute for Water, Environment and Health, United Nations University

The world is now using so much fresh water amid the consequences of climate change that it has entered an era of water bankruptcy, with many regions no longer able to bounce back from frequent water shortages.

About 4 billion people – nearly half the global population – live with severe water scarcity for at least one month a year,...

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AI cannot automate science – a philosopher explains the uniquely human aspects of doing research

  • Written by Alessandra Buccella, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University at Albany, State University of New York
imageHuman scientists lay the foundations for every scientific breakthrough.Qi Yang/Moment via Getty Images

Consistent with the general trend of incorporating artificial intelligence into nearly every field, researchers and politicians are increasingly using AI models trained on scientific data to infer answers to scientific questions. But can AI...

Read more: AI cannot automate science – a philosopher explains the uniquely human aspects of doing research

What ‘hope’ has represented in Christian history – and what it might mean now

  • Written by Joanne M. Pierce, Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
imagePope Leo XIV closes the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica's to end the 2025 ordinary Jubilee year at the Vatican on Jan. 6, 2026.Yara Nardi/Pool photo via AP

Pope Leo XIV closed the door at St. Peter’s Basilica on Jan. 6, 2026, just days into the new year. The act formally brought the Vatican’s Holy Year 2025 – designated as...

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Some hard-earned lessons from Detroit on how to protect the safety net for community partners in research

  • Written by Carrie Leach, Research Assistant Professor, Wayne State University
imageTo get seniors online, the author provided them with computers and internet access.David Goldman/AP Photo

For the past 10 years, I have worked on closing the communication gaps that keep older adults at arm’s length from research that could improve their lives.

I worked with Detroiters to bridge the digital divide by developing tools that...

Read more: Some hard-earned lessons from Detroit on how to protect the safety net for community partners in...

Iran’s universities have long been a battleground, where protests happen and students fight for the future

  • Written by Pardis Mahdavi, Professor of Anthropology, University of La Verne; University of California, Berkeley
imageAnti-government Iranian protesters rally on Jan. 8, 2026, in Tehran. Anonymous/Getty Images

Iran’s current wave of protests continues to spread across the country, as the United States weighs military intervention. Meanwhile, many Iranian people continue to struggle to pay for basic necessities amid a collapsing currency.

The anti-government...

Read more: Iran’s universities have long been a battleground, where protests happen and students fight for...

Why Philly has so many sinkholes

  • Written by Laura Toran, Professor of Environmental Geology, Temple University
imageSinkholes form when underground rock dissolves or sediment washes away and the surface collapses.Luis Diaz Devesa/Moment Collection/Getty Images

In early January, a giant sinkhole formed at an intersection in the West Oak Lane neighborhood of North Philadelphia after a water main break. Just two weeks earlier, the city reopened a section of the...

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What air pollution does to the human body

  • Written by Jenni Shearston, Assistant Professor of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado Boulder

I grew up in rural Colorado, deep in the mountains, and I can still remember the first time I visited Denver in the early 2000s. The city sits on the plain, skyscrapers rising and buildings extending far into the distance. Except, as we drove out of the mountains, I could barely see the city – the entire plain was covered in a brown, hazy...

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What triumphalist narratives about Brazil’s high court and Bolsonaro imprisonment leave out

  • Written by Tassiana Moura de Oliveira, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, University at Albany, State University of New York
imageBrazil former President Jair Bolsonaro gestures as he faces Alexandre de Moraes, the powerful Brazilian Supreme Court judge.Arthur Menescal / Getty Images

On Jan. 15, 2026, Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered that incarcerated ex-President Jair Bolsonaro be given a significant upgrade in his prison accomodations.

Perhaps not...

Read more: What triumphalist narratives about Brazil’s high court and Bolsonaro imprisonment leave out

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  1. What a bear attack in a remote valley in Nepal tells us about the problem of aging rural communities
  2. Opera is not dying – but it needs a second act for the streaming era
  3. Trump’s Greenland ambitions could wreck 20th-century alliances that helped build the modern world order
  4. Are there thunderstorms on Mars? A planetary scientist explains the red planet’s dry, dusty storms
  5. An ultrathin coating for electronics looked like a miracle insulator − but a hidden leak fooled researchers for over a decade
  6. For 80 years, the president’s party has almost always lost House seats in midterm elections, a pattern that makes the 2026 congressional outlook clear
  7. Chavismo has adapted before – but can Venezuela’s leftist ideology become US friendly and survive?
  8. Supreme Court is set to rule on constitutionality of Trump tariffs – but not their wisdom
  9. 12 ways the Trump administration dismantled civil rights law and the foundations of inclusive democracy in its first year
  10. Thecla, the beast fighter: The saint who faced down lions and killer seals is one of many ‘leading ladies’ in early Christian texts
  11. American farmers, who once fed the world, face a volatile global market with diminishing federal backing
  12. Deep reading can boost your critical thinking and help you resist misinformation – here’s how to build the skill
  13. Iran’s latest internet blackout extends to phones and Starlink
  14. New variant of the flu virus is driving surge of cases across the US and Canada
  15. International aid groups are dealing with the pain of slashed USAID funding by cutting staff, localizing and coordinating better
  16. Colorado ranchers and consumers can team up to make beef supply chains more sustainable
  17. Raccoons break into liquor stores, scale skyscrapers and pick locks – studying their clever brains can clarify human intelligence, too
  18. Googoosh, the ‘Voice of Iran,’ has gone quiet – and that’s her point
  19. The Insurrection Act is one of at least 26 legal loopholes in the law banning the use of the US military domestically
  20. Global power struggles over the ocean’s finite resources call for creative diplomacy
  21. China’s new condom tax will prove no effective barrier to country’s declining fertility rate
  22. Refugee families are more likely to become self-reliant if provided with support outside of camp settings
  23. The hidden power of grief rituals
  24. Science is best communicated through identity and culture – how researchers are ensuring STEM serves their communities
  25. How is China viewing US actions in Venezuela – an affront, an opportunity or a blueprint?
  26. One cure for sour feelings about politics − getting people to love their hometowns
  27. Most of the 1 million Venezuelans in the United States arrived within the past decade
  28. How mountain terraces have helped Indigenous peoples live with climate uncertainty
  29. Supreme Court likely to reject limits on concealed carry but uphold bans on gun possession by drug users
  30. New Year’s resolutions usually fall by the wayside, but there is a better approach to making real changes
  31. Before Venezuela’s oil, there were Guatemala’s bananas
  32. Searching reporters’ homes, suing journalists and repressing citizen dissent are well-known steps toward autocracy
  33. Climate engineering would alter the oceans, reshaping marine life – our new study examines each method’s risks
  34. Climate engineering would alter the oceans, reshaping marine life – new study examines each method’s risks
  35. Reddit and TikTok - with the help of AI - are reshaping how researchers understand substance use
  36. Broncos say their new stadium will be ‘privately financed,’ but ‘private’ often still means hundreds of millions in public resources
  37. For some Jewish women, ‘passing’ as Christian during the Holocaust could mean survival – but left scars all the same
  38. There’s an intensifying kind of threat to academic freedom – watchful students serving as informants
  39. Building ‘beloved community’: Remembering the friendship between Martin Luther King Jr. and Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh
  40. US military has a long history in Greenland, from mining during WWII to a nuclear-powered Army base built into the ice
  41. Could ChatGPT convince you to buy something? Threat of manipulation looms as AI companies gear up to sell ads
  42. From a new flagship space telescope to lunar exploration, global cooperation – and competition – will make 2026 an exciting year for space
  43. The ‘drug threat’ that justified the US ouster of Maduro won’t be fixed by his arrest
  44. South Florida’s Brightline has highlighted an old problem – every year for the past decade, 900 pedestrians were killed by trains
  45. Iran’s protests have spread across provinces, despite skepticism and concern among ethnic groups
  46. Why unlocking Venezuelan oil won’t mean much for US energy prices
  47. Martin Luther King Jr. was ahead of his time in pushing for universal basic income
  48. Rural areas have darker skies but fewer resources for students interested in astronomy – telescopes in schools can help
  49. Research institutions tout the value of scholarship that crosses disciplines – but academia pushes interdisciplinary researchers out
  50. From flammable neighborhoods to moral hazards, fire insurance maps capture early US cities and the landscape of discrimination