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Understanding the violence against Alawites and Druze in Syria after Assad

  • Written by Güneş Murat Tezcür, Professor and Director of the School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University
imageBedouin fighters at Mazraa village on the outskirts of Sweida city, during clashes in southern Syria on July 18, 2025. AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed

In July 2025, clashes between the Druze religious minority and Sunni Arabs backed by government-affiliated forces led to hundreds of deaths in Sweida province in southern Syria. Israel later launched dozens...

Read more: Understanding the violence against Alawites and Druze in Syria after Assad

Binary star systems are complex astronomical objects − a new AI approach could pin down their properties quickly

  • Written by Andrej Prša, Professor of Astrophysics and Planetary Science, Villanova University
imageIn a binary star system, two stars orbit around each other. ESO/L. Calçada, CC BY

Stars are the fundamental building blocks of our universe. Most stars host planets, like our Sun hosts our solar system, and if you look more broadly, groups of stars make up huge structures such as clusters and galaxies. So before astrophysicists can attempt...

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I teach college and report on Colorado media — there should be more professors doing the same in other states

  • Written by Corey Hutchins, Manager, Colorado College Journalism Institute, Colorado College
imageNewsletters that cover a state's media landscape are few and far between, according to a new report.iStock / Getty Images Plus

Over the years, the crisis facing local news has meant the disappearance of reporting on the arts, politics, sports and local government.

Newspapers have disappeared from many local communities, and the ranks of individual...

Read more: I teach college and report on Colorado media — there should be more professors doing the same in...

Trump has fired the head of the Library of Congress, but the 225-year-old institution remains a ‘library for all’ – so far

  • Written by Alex H. Poole, Associate Professor of Information Science, Drexel University
imageThe main reading room is seen at the Library of Congress on June 13, 2025, in Washington. Kevin Carter/Getty Images

Carla Hayden, the 14th librarian of Congress, who has held the position since 2016, received an unexpected email on May 8, 2025.

“Carla, on behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as...

Read more: Trump has fired the head of the Library of Congress, but the 225-year-old institution remains a...

How the nature of environmental law is changing in defense of the planet and the climate

  • Written by Dana Zartner, Professor of International Studies, University of San Francisco
imageA 2017 New Zealand law recognizes inherent rights of the Whanganui River. Jason Pratt, CC BY-SA

While the dangerous effects of climate change continue to worsen, legal efforts to address a range of environmental issues are also on the rise.

Headlines across the globe tout many of these legal actions: South Korea’s Climate Law Violates Rights...

Read more: How the nature of environmental law is changing in defense of the planet and the climate

Beijing’s ‘plausible deniability’ on arms supply is quickly becoming implausible – and could soon extend to Iran

  • Written by Linggong Kong, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, Auburn University
imageCould longtime allies have a closer relationship than meets the eye?Thomas Peter/Pool Photo via AP

China has long maintained that it does not supply arms to any party at war – a central tenet of its “noninterference” foreign policy. But in recent years, Beijing has repeatedly faced accusations of doing the opposite: providing...

Read more: Beijing’s ‘plausible deniability’ on arms supply is quickly becoming implausible – and could soon...

Imaginary athletes: Creating make-believe teammates, competitors and coaches during play

  • Written by Tracy Gleason, Professor of Psychology, Wellesley College
imageWhat would an imaginary companion add to a child's solo practice?Elkhophoto/iStock via Getty Images Plus

The coach, the specialized equipment, the carefully tailored exercise regimen – they’re all key to athletic performance. But imagination might be an unexpected asset when it comes to playing sports.

The idea that athletic achievement...

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Bangladesh sees small glimmers of economic hope a year after longtime autocrat ousted in people’s revolt

  • Written by Mohammad Elahee, Professor of International Business, Quinnipiac University
imageMuhammad Yunus steps into the political void.Sean Gallup/Getty Images

By the time a student-led protest movement erupted into a full-scale revolution in Bangladesh in July 2024, the country’s economy was already in free fall.

Years of rampant corruption, mismanagement and dwindling opportunities for young people – not to mention the brut...

Read more: Bangladesh sees small glimmers of economic hope a year after longtime autocrat ousted in people’s...

One of the biggest microplastic pollution sources isn’t straws or grocery bags – it’s your tires

  • Written by Boluwatife S. Olubusoye, Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry, University of Mississippi
imageMost tires are made of synthetic rubber that sheds particles of microplastics over time. Rapeepong Puttakumwong/Moment via Getty Images

Every few years, the tires on your car wear thin and need to be replaced. But where does that lost tire material go?

The answer, unfortunately, is often waterways, where the tiny microplastic particles from the...

Read more: One of the biggest microplastic pollution sources isn’t straws or grocery bags – it’s your tires

What the world can learn from Uruguay as the global housing crisis deepens

  • Written by Jennifer Duyne Barenstein, Senior Lecturer of Social Anthropology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
imageLocated in the Peñarol neighborhood of Montevideo, COVIMT 1 was the city's first mutual aid housing cooperative. It was founded by textile workers, who completed construction of the complex in 1972.Bé Estudio, CC BY-SA

More than 1.8 billion people lack access to adequate and affordable housing. Yet too few countries have taken...

Read more: What the world can learn from Uruguay as the global housing crisis deepens

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  6. Amid fragile ceasefire, violence in southern Syria brings Druze communities’ complex cross-border ties to the fore
  7. How mothers supporting mothers can help fill the health care worker shortage gap and other barriers to care
  8. Microbes in deep-sea volcanoes can help scientists learn about early life on Earth, or even life beyond our planet
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  13. How the world’s nuclear watchdog monitors facilities around the world – and what it means that Iran kicked it out
  14. How the QAnon movement entered mainstream politics – and why the silence on Epstein files matters
  15. How the ‘big, beautiful bill’ will deepen the racial wealth gap – a law scholar explains how it reduces poor families’ ability to afford food and health care
  16. ‘I just couldn’t stop crying’: How prison affects Black men’s mental health long after they’ve been released
  17. Leaders in India, Hungary and the US are using appeals to nostalgia and nationalism to attack higher education
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  20. Can AI think – and should it? What it means to think, from Plato to ChatGPT
  21. Idi Amin made himself out to be the ‘liberator’ of an oppressed majority – a demagogic trick that endures today
  22. Clawback of $1.1B for PBS and NPR puts rural stations at risk – and threatens a vital source of journalism
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  30. Data can show if government programs work or not, but the Trump administration is suppressing the necessary information
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  32. Catholic clergy are speaking out on immigration − more than any other political issue except abortion
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