Tag: life and news
50 years ago, the Supreme Court broke campaign finance regulation
John J. Martin, Quinnipiac University
In 2024, spending on federal elections totaled almost US$15 billion in the United States....
Crowdfunded generosity isn’t taxable – but IRS regulations haven’t kept up...
Shelly Tygielski, Indiana University and Pamala Wiepking, Indiana University; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Have you ever received some money through...
Michelangelo hated painting the Sistine Chapel – and never aspired to...
Anna Swartwood House, University of South Carolina
When a 5-inch-by-4-inch red chalk drawing of a woman’s foot by Michelangelo...
I’m a philosopher who tries to see the best in others...
Mark Schroeder, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Understanding one another can be hard. There is a...
Individual donors provide only a small slice of university research funding...
Brian Herman, University of Minnesota
Yale University, Columbia University and the University of California, Los Angeles are among the...
Supreme Court rules against Trump’s emergency tariffs – but leaves key...
Kent Jones, Babson College
President Donald Trump’s economic agenda took a major hit when the Supreme Court struck down...
Colorado has high levels of radon, which can cause lung cancer...
Jan Lowery, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
In Colorado, as of 2025, about 500 people a year die...
After a 32-hour shift in Pittsburgh, I realized EMTs should be...
P. Daniel Patterson, University of Pittsburgh
At 7 a.m., roughly an hour before the end of my shift as...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
