How to be grateful to someone – even when you really don’t want to
Mark Schroeder, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
There are few greater feelings than the sense of...
What does it mean to be ‘quantum’? A physicist explains the basics behind Einstein’s...
Aldo Romero, West Virginia University
Imagine shining a flashlight across a dark room. You can predict exactly what the...
For nearly 250 years, the US has had eyes on Latin America – but...
Lindsay Schakenbach Regele, Miami University
Since the beginning of the second Trump administration, the United States has ramped up...
Cuba’s future remains in limbo while Trump’s unpredictable foreign policy offers no clear path forward
Juan Carlos Albarran, Miami University
As I consider the dire economic and political turning point my home country of...
When a congressman beat a senator unconscious, America confronted the limits of free speech
Paul Quigley, Virginia Tech
On May 22, 1856, Preston Brooks strode into the United States Senate chamber and beat...
Despite the growth of some AI schools like Alpha, research doesn’t show that AI...
Gerald K. LeTendre, Penn State
Over the past decade, the AI-focused, for-profit Alpha School has grown from one campus...
Repeated storms are turning disaster recovery into a way of life, and leaving communities...
Lee Ann Rawlins Williams, University of North Dakota
Flash flooding has been tearing up communities across the U.S., with...
The US murder rate fell to historic lows in 2025 – here’s why
James Tuttle, University of Montana
The murder rate in 2025 was the lowest in modern American history.
