Nathan Meyers, UMass Amherst
Since returning to office, President Donald Trump has aggressively moved to shrink the federal government. His administration has frozen federal grants, issued executive orders aligned with the Heritage Foundation’s Project...
Allison Stanger, Middlebury
The Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has secured unprecedented access to at least seven sensitive federal databases, including those of the Internal Revenue Service and Social Security Administration. This access...
Laura Rees, Oregon State University and Ray Friedman, Vanderbilt University
Pretty much everyone will sometimes struggle with anger at work. People fear the wrath of abusive supervisors, suppress anger to maintain a façade of...
Christine Keiner, Rochester Institute of Technology
Healthy coastal ecosystems play crucial roles in the U.S. economy, from supporting multibillion-dollar fisheries and tourism industries to protecting coastlines from storms.
They’re also difficult...
Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager, Colorado State University
“Who do I call if I want to speak to Europe?”
The question was famously attributed to former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and refers...
James L. Perry, Indiana University
On top of efforts to fire potentially tens of thousands of federal workers, an early executive order from President Donald Trump’s second term seeks to reclassify the employment status...
Chris Impey, University of Arizona
America has already lost its global competitive edge in science, and funding cuts proposed in early 2025 may further a precipitous decline.
Proposed cuts to the...
Zachary Price, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
Because of the Trump administration’s efforts to cut staff and spending, Congress’ “power of the purse” has been in the news lately. Many...
