The only thing limiting Taylor Swift’s popularity is partisan polarization
Laurel Elder, Hartwick College; Jeff Gulati, Bentley University; Mary-Kate Lizotte, Augusta University, and Steven Greene, North Carolina State University
Trump’s stated reasons for taking Greenland are wrong – but the tactics fit with...
Steven Lamy, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
In 2019, during his first term, U.S. President Donald...
For 80 years, the president’s party has almost always lost House seats in midterm...
Robert A. Strong, University of Virginia
Now that the 2026 midterm elections are less than a year away, public...
Raccoons break into liquor stores, scale skyscrapers and pick locks – studying their clever...
Kelly Lambert, University of Richmond
When a curious raccoon broke into an Ashland, Virginia, liquor store in December 2025,...
American farmers, who once fed the world, face a volatile global market with diminishing...
Peter Simons, Hamilton College
President Donald Trump appears to have upended an 85-year relationship between American farmers and the...
Colorado ranchers and consumers can team up to make beef supply chains more sustainable
Jordan Kraft Lambert, Colorado State University; Jennifer Martin, Colorado State University; Kim Stackhouse-Lawson, Colorado State University, and Sara Place, Colorado State University
Iran’s latest internet blackout extends to phones and Starlink
Amanda Meng, Georgia Institute of Technology; Alberto Dainotti, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Zachary Bischof, Georgia Institute of Technology
Googoosh, the ‘Voice of Iran,’ has gone quiet – and that’s her point
Richard Nedjat-Haiem, University of California, Santa Barbara
Before Beyoncé, before Cher, before Madonna, there was Googoosh.






















