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Until 1968, presidential candidates were picked by party conventions – a process revived by Biden’s withdrawal from race

  • Written by Philip Klinkner, James S. Sherman Professor of Government, Hamilton College
imagePresident Joe Biden at the 2024 NATO Summit on July 11, 2024 in Washington, DC. Kent Nishimura/Getty Images

Now that Joe Biden has dropped out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to be the nominee, it will ultimately be up to Democratic National Convention delegates to formally select a new nominee for their...

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Massive IT outage spotlights major vulnerabilities in the global information ecosystem

  • Written by Richard Forno, Principal Lecturer in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
imageDisplays at LaGuardia Airport in New York show the infamous "blue screen of death."AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura

The global information technology outage on July 19, 2024, that paralyzed organizations ranging from airlines to hospitals and even the delivery of uniforms for the Olympic Games represents a growing concern for cybersecurity professionals,...

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What is Catholic Integralism?

  • Written by Mathew Schmalz, Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
imageJD Vance, who has many of the same policy positions that many American Catholic conservatives hold, at a rally in Ohio in 2021.AP Photo/Jeff Dean

Since his nomination as the Republican candidate for vice president, focus has intensified on JD Vance’s religious beliefs and how they connect to his politics.

Vance is a convert to Catholicism...

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Online rumors sparked by the Trump assassination attempt spread rapidly, on both ends of the political spectrum

  • Written by Danielle Lee Tomson, Research Manager, Center for an Informed Public, University of Washington
imageA bloodied Donald Trump is surrounded by Secret Service agents.Rebecca Droke/AFP via Getty Images

In the immediate hours after the assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump on July 13, 2024, social media users posted the same videos, images and eyewitness accounts but used them as evidence for different rumors or theories that aligned...

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Biden’s and Trump’s ages would prevent them running many top companies – and for good reason

  • Written by Brandon Cline, Professor of Finance, Mississippi State University
imageThey've set two records as the oldest presidential hopefuls.AP Photo

President Joe Biden, currently seeking a second term as the Democratic Party’s nominee, is 81. Former President Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s nominee, is 78. No one older has run for U.S. president before. That was also true in 2020, when the same two men ran...

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How the Ukrainians – with no navy – defeated Russia’s Black Sea Fleet

  • Written by Brian Glyn Williams, Professor of Islamic History, UMass Dartmouth
imageA view of the Russian warship Moskva just before it sank April 15, 2022.Blake Spendley/OSINTtechnical on X

Since the Russian invasion began in 2022, Ukraine has successfully resisted its opponents on many fronts, but its most surprising success came in a theater where few expected Ukraine to prevail: the Black Sea.

In 2022, the consensus among...

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Affordable housing in God’s backyard: Some religious congregations find a new use for their space

  • Written by Nadia A. Mian, Senior Program Director and Lecturer, Rutgers University
imageThe Arlington Presbyterian Church in Arlington, Va., seen in 2015, developed an affordable housing project on its property. Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Faced with declining membership, aging buildings and large, underutilized properties, many U.S. houses of worship have closed their doors in recent years. Presbyterian...

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Age would prevent Trump and Biden from running many top companies − and for good reason

  • Written by Brandon Cline, Professor of Finance, Mississippi State University
imageThe former president was 78 when he became the Republican Party's nominee for a third time.AP Photo/Evan Vucci

Former President Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s nominee, is 78. No one older has ever run for U.S. president as their party’s official nominee. That was also true in 2020, when Trump lost to President Joe Biden.

Biden was...

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Why I turned the ‘Red Dead Redemption II’ video game into a history class on America’s violent past

  • Written by Tore Olsson, Associate Professor of History, University of Tennessee
imageThe video game 'Red Dead Redemption II' has sold over 64 million copies. Can it be used to teach history, too?MTStock Studio via Getty Imagesimage

Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

Title of course:

Red Dead’s History: Exploring America’s Violent Past Through...

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Sports in extreme heat: How high school athletes can safely prepare for the start of practice, and the warning signs of heat illness

  • Written by Samantha Scarneo-Miller, Assistance Professor of Athletic Training, West Virginia University
imageThe first two weeks of practice are hardest as the body acclimatizes.Derek Davis/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

High school sports teams start practices soon in what has been an extremely hot summer in much of the country. Now, before they hit the field, is the time for athletes to start slowly and safely building up strength and...

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  2. Cutting marketing spending often backfires on businesses – new research could help investors distinguish shortsighted cuts from smart ones
  3. Sports in extreme heat: Warning signs of heat illness and how high school athletes can safely prepare for the start of team practices
  4. Long COVID puzzle pieces are falling into place – the picture is unsettling
  5. Voting rights at risk after Supreme Court makes it harder to challenge racial gerrymandering
  6. After more than 40 years, the federal right to free education for immigrant students finds itself in the crosshairs of conservatives
  7. Heritage Foundation’s ‘Project 2025’ is just the latest action plan from a group with an over 50-year history of steering GOP lawmaking
  8. Late bedtimes and not enough sleep can harm developing brains – and poorer kids are more at risk
  9. Republicans wary of Republicans – how politics became a clue about infection risk during the pandemic
  10. Pennsylvania continues tradition as ‘keystone state’ in presidential elections
  11. What the Catholic Church says about political violence and the need to forgive – even would-be assassins
  12. ‘MAGA BLACK’ hats, clear swag bags, the first Trump/Vance signs: Highlights of what the Smithsonian is archiving from the Republican convention
  13. Baby bull sharks are thriving in Texas and Alabama bays as the Gulf of Mexico warms
  14. How Trump’s appeal to nostalgia deliberately evokes America’s more-racist, more-sexist past
  15. AI mass surveillance at Paris Olympics – a legal scholar on the security boon and privacy nightmare
  16. Supreme Court’s blow to federal agencies’ power will likely weaken abortion rights – 3 issues to watch
  17. The Black fugitive who inspired ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ and the end of US slavery
  18. A short history of the rise, fall and return of Detroit’s Michigan Central Station
  19. Stroke survivors may be saddled with an invisible disability known as spatial neglect – but a simple treatment offers significant improvement
  20. Want to spur your child’s intellectual development? Use audiobooks instead of videos
  21. The Large Hadron Collider gets reset and refreshed each year – a CERN physicist explains how the team uses subatomic splashes to restart the experiments
  22. America faces a power disconnection crisis amid dangerous heat: In 27 states, utilities can shut off electricity for nonpayment even in a heat wave
  23. Social media and political violence – how to break the cycle
  24. Nutrition Facts labels have a complicated legacy – a historian explains the science and politics of translating food into information
  25. Target just became the latest US retailer to stop accepting payment by checks. Why have so many stores given up on them?
  26. Trump-appointed federal judge rules Trump’s classified document case is unconstitutional – here’s how special counsels have been authorized before
  27. How to protect your home from wildfires – here’s what fire prevention experts say is most important
  28. New research suggests estrogen and progesterone could play role in opioid addiction and relapse
  29. Trump’s assassination attempt reveals a major security breakdown – but doesn’t necessarily heighten the risk for political violence, a former FBI official explains
  30. Trump assassination attempt reveals a major security breakdown – but doesn’t necessarily heighten the risk for political violence, a former FBI official explains
  31. Electing a virtuous president would make immunity irrelevant, writes a political philosopher
  32. Decades after Billie Holiday’s death, ‘Strange Fruit’ is still a searing testament to injustice – and of faithful solidarity with suffering
  33. How Smithsonian curators scavenge political conventions to explain the present to the future and save everything from hats to buttons to umbrellas to soap
  34. Could people turn Mars into another Earth? Here’s what it would take to transform its barren landscape into a life-friendly world
  35. Flying in helicopters is safer than you might think – an aerospace engineer explains the technology and training that make it so
  36. Michigan’s thousands of farmworkers are unprotected, poorly paid, uncounted and often exploited
  37. ‘One inch from a potential civil war’ – near miss in Trump shooting is also a close call for American democracy
  38. Biden isn’t the first to struggle to pop the presidential bubble that divides him from the public
  39. Supermassive black holes have masses of more than a million suns – but their growth has slowed as the universe has aged
  40. As nativist politics surge across Europe, soccer’s ‘Euros’ showcase a more benign form of nationalism
  41. Immigrant moms feel unsafe and unheard when seeking pregnancy care – here’s how they’d improve Philly’s health care system
  42. Meteorites from Mars help scientists understand the red planet’s interior
  43. Donald Trump wants to reinstate a spoils system in federal government by hiring political loyalists regardless of competence
  44. Odds are that gambling on the Biden/Trump competition will further reduce the presidential campaign to a horse race
  45. Will a market crash one day be pinned on the Supreme Court? An accounting expert explains why recent rulings have him worried
  46. Abortion restrictions harm mental health, with low-income women hardest hit
  47. Trump’s raised fist - how one gesture can be used by Republicans, socialists, fascists, white supremacists and Black athletes
  48. AI supercharges data center energy use – straining the grid and slowing sustainability efforts
  49. Storytelling strategies make communication about science more compelling
  50. Trump’s raised fist is a go-to gesture with a long history of different meanings