The pope plays his trump card: teaching the power of moral actions
Kathleen Dean Moore, Oregon State University and Michael Paul Nelson, Oregon State University
When Pope Francis framed climate change as a moral problem and issued...
Experts react as Obamacare survives another near-death experience
Erin Fuse Brown, Georgia State University; Mark Kende, Drake University, and Thomas J Whalen, Boston University
Editor’s note: The Affordable Care Act survived a second...
Our mostly dry planetary neighbors once had lots of water—what does that imply for...
David A Weintraub, Vanderbilt University
We already knew about Venus. We had our suspicions about Mars. Now we’re sure.
Our two closest solar system neighbors once...
How evolutionary psychology may explain the difference between male and female serial killers
Marissa Harrison, Pennsylvania State University
Researchers such as psychologist Marvin Zuckerman have long noted the morbid curiosity of humans; there’s just something about horror and...
It’s a mess: graduate schools are failing to prepare students for jobs
Leonard Cassuto, Fordham University
Arthur Levine, the head of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, has been a vituperative critic of teacher education programs for...
Declining winter sea ice near Greenland spells cooler climate for Europe
Kent Moore, University of Toronto; Ian Renfrew, University of East Anglia; Kjetil Våge, University of Bergen, and Robert Pickart, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
One of...
The surprises in the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage decision
Danaya Wright, University of Florida
The Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v Hodges fulfilled predictions that the court would affirm marriage equality nationwide as a...
How US gun control compares to the rest of the world
John Donohue, Stanford University
The Charleston murders have renewed the sporadic debates over whether gun control might have prevented this latest of tragedies.
To quote President...
