Hosting the NFL draft is less about weekend beer sales and more about long‑term...
Tim Derdenger, Carnegie Mellon University
When the NFL draft arrives in Pittsburgh in April 2026, city officials are sure...
Philadelphia’s founding years were rife with conspiracy fears about ‘godless’ Freemasons and the Illuminati
Derek Arnold, Villanova University
How conspiracies spread has changed immensely over the history of the United States, as technology...
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...
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....
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...
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...
