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Syrians rejoice in a new beginning, after 54 years of tyranny

  • Written by Wendy Pearlman, Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University
imageSyrians gather in the heart of Damascus on Dec. 9, 2024, to celebrate the fall of the Assad regime. Rami Alsayed/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Rami Alsayed/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Millions of Syrians are feeling hope for the first time in years.

The authoritarian regime of Bashar al-Assad fell on Dec. 8, 2024, after a 12-day rebel offensive.

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Syrians, in a triumph of hope, turn the page on the horrors of Assad

  • Written by Wendy Pearlman, Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University
imageSyrians gather in the heart of Damascus on Dec. 9, 2024, to celebrate the fall of the Assad regime. Rami Alsayed/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Rami Alsayed/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Millions of Syrians are feeling hope for the first time in years.

The authoritarian regime of Bashar al-Assad fell on Dec. 8, 2024, after a 12-day rebel offensive.

Most...

Read more: Syrians, in a triumph of hope, turn the page on the horrors of Assad

Arctic has changed dramatically in just a couple of decades – 2024 report card shows worrying trends in snow, ice, wildfire and more

  • Written by Twila A. Moon, Deputy Lead Scientist, National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado Boulder

The Arctic can feel like a far-off place, disconnected from daily life if you aren’t one of the 4 million people who live there. Yet, the changes underway in the Arctic as temperatures rise can profoundly affect lives around the world.

Coastal flooding is worsening in many communities as Arctic glaciers and the Greenland Ice Sheet send meltwat...

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Pearl Young, the first woman to work in a technical role at NASA, overcame barriers and ‘raised hell’ − her legacy continues today

  • Written by Caitlin Milera, Research Assistant Professor of Aerospace, University of North Dakota

Thirteen years before any other woman joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics – or the NACA, NASA’s predecessor – in a technical role, a young lab assistant named Pearl Young was making waves in the agency. Her legacy as an outspoken and persistent advocate for herself and her team would pave the way for women in...

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Stadiums don’t have to be a drain on taxpayer dollars − 4 lessons from St. Louis

  • Written by Peter Boumgarden, Professor of Family Enterprise, Washington University in St. Louis
imageThe inaugural match at CITYPARK on March 4, 2023.Photo by Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Images

The world of professional sports is flush with cash, thanks to multibillion-dollar TV deals, sponsorships and ticket sales. Yet some of the biggest investments in major franchises come from taxpayers. Between 1970 and 2020, state and local governments spent US$33...

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Polarization, brain rot and brat – the 2024 words of the year point to the power, perils and ephemeral nature of digital life

  • Written by Roger J. Kreuz, Associate Dean and Professor of Psychology, University of Memphis
imageSocial media has played a big role in political polarization.kieferpix/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Ever since the American Dialect Society selected a Word of the Year at its conference in 1990, over half a dozen English dictionaries have anointed an annual word or phrase that’s meant to encapsulate the zeitgeist of the prior year.

In 2003,...

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New set of human rights principles aims to end displacement and abuse of Indigenous people through ‘fortress conservation’

  • Written by John H. Knox, Professor of International Law, Wake Forest University
imageMany protected areas, including California's Yosemite National Park, displaced Indigenous people in the name of protecting wildlands.Matthew Dillon/Flickr

For more than a century, conservationists have worked to preserve natural ecosystems by creating national parks and protected areas. Today the Earth faces a global biodiversity crisis, with more...

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Hypnosis is not just a parlor trick or TV act − science shows it helps with anxiety, depression, pain, PTSD and sleep disorders

  • Written by David Acunzo, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, University of Virginia
imageAlthough hypnosis can help with a number of medical conditions, it doesn't work for everything.Paula Connelly/iStock via Getty Images Plus

We’ve all seen it, typically on television or on stage: A hypnotist selects a few members from the audience, and with what seems to be little more than a steely stare or a few choice words, they’re...

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I’m a scholar of white supremacy who’s visiting all 113 places where Confederate statues were removed in recent years − here’s why Richmond gets it right

  • Written by David Cunningham, Professor of Sociology, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
imageThe Confederate leader Jefferson Davis has new digs in Richmond − a museum where he's displayed prone and paint-splattered.David Cunningham, CC BY-SA

In a symbolic rebuke of the American South’s racist history, an old Confederate monument now has a meaningful new life, four years after it was toppled in Virginia.

In June 2020, protesters...

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Links between gender stereotypes and American patriotism date from the Cold War − but weren’t true then either

  • Written by Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy, Teaching Professor of American Studies, Miami University
imageAn image of stereotypical American domesticity from the March 1948 issue of Ladies' Home Journal.Ladies' Home Journal via archive.org

In 1959, at the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, in front of a model American kitchen full of appliances, Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev sparred over the...

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  7. Meditation can reduce stress – but the pressure to overwork remains
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  11. Assad leaves behind a fragmented nation – stabilizing Syria will be a major challenge for fractured opposition and external backers
  12. What does the NASA administrator do? The agency’s leader reaches for the stars while navigating budgets and politics back on Earth
  13. Trump attacks diversity, but a fellow New Yorker − US Rep. Vito Marcantonio − worked to represent all Americans in a multiracial democracy
  14. What is Salt Typhoon? A security expert explains the Chinese hackers and their attack on US telecommunications networks
  15. Extraterrestrial life may look nothing like life on Earth − so astrobiologists are coming up with a framework to study how complex systems evolve
  16. Protests, sectarian violence and a growing spat with India: Bangladesh’s new leaders are beset with challenges to its democracy
  17. What is the ‘way of the warrior’? Students investigate the arts of war and peace in this course about virtue and the ethics of violence
  18. Love it or hate it, nonliteral ‘literally’ is here to stay: Here’s why English will survive
  19. Adults grow new brain cells – and these neurons are key to learning by listening
  20. White and Black activists worked strategically in parallel in Detroit 50 years ago, fighting for civil rights
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  32. Notre Dame reopens in Paris 5 years after fire – its reconstruction preserves the past and illuminates France’s modern ambitions
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