Tag: life & news
Sudan’s civil war: A visual guide to the brutal conflict
Christopher Tounsel, University of Washington
Sudan’s brutal civil war has dragged on for more than 2½ years, displacing millions...
The US already faces a health care workforce shortage – immigration...
Bedassa Tadesse, University of Minnesota Duluth
As Americans gather for holiday celebrations, many will quietly thank the health care...
America faced domestic fascists before and buried that history
Arlene Stein, Rutgers University
Masked officers conduct immigration raids. National Guard troops patrol American cities, and protesters decry their...
Deepfakes leveled up in 2025 – here’s what’s coming next
Siwei Lyu, University at Buffalo
Over the course of 2025, deepfakes improved dramatically. AI-generated faces, voices and full-body performances...
Karoline Leavitt’s White House briefing doublethink is straight out of Orwell’s ‘1984’
Laura Beers, American University
During a press conference on Dec. 11, 2025, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced...
LA fires showed how much neighborliness matters for wildfire safety –...
Elizabeth A. Logan, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and William Deverell, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
‘This year nearly broke me as a scientist’ – US researchers...
Carrie McDonough, Carnegie Mellon University; Brian G. Henning, Gonzaga University; Cara Poland, Michigan State University; Nathaniel M. Tran, University of Illinois Chicago;...
The ‘sacred’ pledge that will power the relaunch of far-right militia...
Alexander Lowie, University of Florida
Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the Oath Keepers, a far-right militia, announced in November...
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
