What I learned from analyzing 789 ‘Shark Tank’ pitches: Narcissists get funding if they’re...
Paul Sanchez Ruiz, Iowa State University
Entrepreneurs displaying narcissistic behavior are better able to convince investors to give them...
Toxic dust from California’s shrinking Salton Sea is harming children’s lung growth – our...
Jill Johnston, University of California, Irvine; University of Southern California and Shohreh Farzan, University of Southern California
Southern California’s...
Lebanon’s political elites are using displacement and humanitarian crisis to delay elections again
Jasmin Lilian Diab, Lebanese American University
Lebanon was meant to be preparing for key parliamentary elections in May 2026....
US and Iran: A brief history of how decades of mistrust and bad blood...
Jeffrey Fields, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
With U.S. bombs raining down on Iran and Tehran’s...
Pam Bondi’s extreme political loyalty to Trump wasn’t enough to save her job
Austin Sarat, Amherst College
After President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi on April 2, 2026, news reports...
Why the manosphere has an antisemitism problem
Miriam Eve Mora, University of Michigan
Toward the end of Netflix’s “Into the Manosphere,” documentary filmmaker Louis Theroux chats...
SpaceX and OpenAI IPOs are unlikely to bring skyrocketing returns that Amazon and Apple...
Brad Badertscher, University of Notre Dame
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is expected to soon become a public company in what...
Shiite grief over attacks on Iran’s sacred cities has deep historical roots
Mary Thurlkill, University of Mississippi
Several Shiite communities in South Asia recently refrained from celebrating Eid as they mourned...
