| When humans use AI to earn patents, who is doing the inventing? | Keith Robinson | 3/14/25 |
| Carolina wildfires followed months of weather whiplash, from drought to hurricane-fueled floods and back to drought | Lauren Lowman and Nick Corak | 3/5/25 |
| As the Kremlin eyes a thaw with the White House, Russia’s pro-war hawks aren’t too happy | Adam Lenton | 2/28/25 |
| Trump administration sets out to create an America its people have never experienced − one without a meaningful government | Sidney Shapiro and Joseph P. Tomain (University of Cincinnati) | 2/27/25 |
| The dangers of ‘Jekyll and Hyde leadership’: Why making amends after workplace abuse can hurt more than it helps | John Sumanth, Sean Hannah, Sherry Moss, and Haoying Xu (Stevens Institute of Technology) | 2/19/25 |
| Why is water different colors in different places? | Courtney Di Vittorio | 2/17/25 |
| After he reached the Super Bowl, Colin Kaepernick’s racial justice protests helped expose US views toward sports activism | Betina Cutaia Wilkinson | 2/5/25 |
| How the EPA administrator protects public health, air, water and the environment | Stan Meiburg | 1/10/25 |
| Is news bias fueled by journalists supplying slanted views or readers’ demanding them? An economist weighs in | Tin Cheuk Leung | 12/17/24 |
| ‘Administrative law’ sounds dry but likely will be key to success or failure of Trump’s plans for government reform | Sidney Shapiro | 12/12/24 |
| New set of human rights principles aims to end displacement and abuse of Indigenous people through ‘fortress conservation’ | John H. Knox | 12/10/24 |
| To some ancient Romans, gladiators were the embodiment of tyranny | John M. Oksanish | 11/22/24 |
| Is the election making you feel adrift and wobbly? That’s ‘zozobra’ – and Mexican philosophers have some advice | Francisco Gallegos and Carlos Alberto Sánchez (San José State Univ.) | 11/5/24 |
| St. Augustine was no stranger to culture wars – and has something to say about today’s | Michael Lamb | 11/1/24 |
| LGBTQ rights: Where Trump and Vance stand | Marie-Amelie George | 10/10/24 |
| Israeli actions have the cover of ‘moral hazard’ − a touch of ambiguity might give US pressure greater weight | Charles Walldorf | 10/3/24 |
| What America’s history can teach us about debates on religious freedom and its importance for democracy | Corey D. B. Walker | 9/25/24 |
| Trump campaign violated rules in Arlington National Cemetery visit, cemetery legal expert explains | Tanya D. Marsh | 9/6/24 |
| US has its first national strategy to reduce plastic pollution − here are 3 strong points and a key issue to watch | Sarah J. Morath | 8/16/24 |
| Donald Trump wants to reinstate a spoils system in federal government by hiring political loyalists regardless of competence | Sidney Shapiro and Joseph P. Tomain (Univ. of Cincinnati) | 7/12/24 |
| Kidneys from Black donors are more likely to be thrown away − a bioethicist explains why | Ana S. Iltis | 6/25/24 |
| Pesquisadores estudam como receptores e meio podem afetar ato de contar uma mentira | Christian B. Miller | 6/13/24 |
| Colorado to tighten regulations on funeral homes after multiple scandals − here’s what this means for families | Tanya D. Marsh | 6/5/24 |
| The US has always had ‘big government’ – even in the Colonial era | Sidney Shapiro and Joseph P. Tomain (Univ. of Cincinnati) | 5/23/24 |
| Why some people receiving federal benefits don’t consider themselves poor − even though poverty rates have increased since the COVID-19 pandemic | Sherri Lawson Clark | 5/9/24 |
| From Reagan to Obama, presidents have left office with ‘strategic regret’ − will leaving troops in Iraq and Syria be Biden or Trump’s? | Charles Walldorf | 4/9/24 |
| Nex Benedict’s suicide coincides with a wave of anti-LGBTQ+ laws – and some people’s misunderstanding about transgender and nonbinary individuals | Marie-Amelie George | 4/3/24 |
| How going back to the SAT could set back college student diversity | Joseph Soares | 4/1/24 |
| 3 things to watch for in Russia’s presidential election – other than Putin’s win, that is | Adam Lenton | 3/12/24 |
| Serengeti migration: fire and rain affect how zebras, wildebeest and gazelles make the journey | T. Michael Anderson | 2/29/24 |
| Anyone can play Tetris, but architects, engineers and animators alike use the math concepts underlying the game | Leah McCoy | 2/28/24 |
| As plastic production grows, treaty negotiations to reduce plastic waste are stuck in low gear | Sarah J. Morath | 11/30/23 |
| How often do you lie? Deception researchers investigate how the recipient and the medium affect telling the truth | Christian B. Miller | 10/26/23 |
| Being humble about what you know is just one part of what makes you a good thinker | Eranda Jayawickreme | 10/25/23 |
| How video games like ‘Starfield’ are creating a new generation of classical music fans | J. Aaron Hardwick | 9/13/23 |
| The US committed to meet the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, but like other countries, it’s struggling to make progress | Scott Schang and John Dernbach (Widener Univ.) | 9/6/23 |
| Is it legal to sell human remains? | Tanya D. Marsh | 6/30/23 |
| Taking students to the range to learn about gun culture firsthand | David Yamane | 6/26/23 |
| 6 books that explain the history and meaning of Juneteenth | Corey D. B. Walker | 6/9/23 |
| Challenging the FDA’s authority isn’t new – the agency’s history shows what’s at stake when drug regulation is in limbo | Christine Coughlin | 4/26/23 |
| State battles over abortion are leading to state constitutional amendments – an option in all states and available directly to citizens in 18 states | John Dinan | 4/12/23 |
| Resounding success of ‘Black Panther’ franchise says little about the dubious state of Black film | Phillip Lamarr Cunningham | 12/1/22 |
| Behind the crisis in Sri Lanka – how political and economic mismanagement combined to plunge nation into turmoil | Neil DeVotta | 7/18/22 |
| Plastic pollution is a global problem – here’s how to design an effective treaty to curb it | Sarah J. Morath | 3/2/22 |
| Political orientation predicts science denial – here’s what that means for getting Americans vaccinated against COVID-19 | Adrian Bardon | 9/16/21 |
| Schools must act carefully on students’ off-campus speech, Supreme Court rules | Katy Harriger | 6/24/21 |
| Feeling disoriented by the election, pandemic and everything else? It’s called ‘zozobra,’ and Mexican philosophers have some advice | Francisco Gallegos and Carlos Alberto Sánchez (San José State Univ.) | 11/2/20 |
| Chile abolishes its dictatorship-era constitution in groundbreaking vote for a more inclusive democracy | Jennifer M. Piscopo (Occidental College) and Peter Siavelis | 10/26/20 |
| Chile puts its constitution on the ballot after year of civil unrest | Jennifer M. Piscopo (Occidental College) and Peter Siavelis | 10/20/20 |
| Urban planning needs to look back first: three cities in Ghana show why | Nate Plageman, Jennifer Anne Hart (Wayne State Univ.) and Tony Yeboah (Yale Univ.) | 9/14/20 |
| How to stay honest when filing taxes in a pandemic year | Christian B. Miller | 7/13/20 |
| Rare neurological disorder, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, linked to COVID-19 | Sherry H-Y. Chou (Univ. of Pittsburgh); Aarti Sarwal, and Neha S. Dangayach (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai) | 7/7/20 |
| Coronavirus responses highlight how humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don’t fit their worldview | Adrian Bardon | 6/25/20 |
| Workplace age discrimination could become even harder to prove in court | Catherine Harnois and Vincent Roscigno (The Ohio State Univ.) | 3/24/20 |
| In gender discrimination, social class matters a great deal | Catherine Harnois and Matthew Andersson (Baylor Univ.) | 2/27/20 |
| Humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don’t fit their worldview | Adrian Bardon | 1/31/20 |
| Do we actually grow from adversity? | Eranda Jayawickreme and Frank J. Infurna (Arizona State Univ.) | 11/15/19 |
| Emotion-reading tech fails the racial bias test | Lauren Rhue | 1/3/19 |
| Sexism isn’t just unfair; it makes women sick, study suggests | Catherine Harnois and Joao Luiz Bastos | 5/4/18 |
| How to stay honest this tax season | Christian B. Miller | 3/29/18 |
| More colleges than ever have test-optional admissions policies — and that’s a good thing | Joseph Soares | 1/10/18 |
| Who will bury Charles Manson? | Tanya D. Marsh | 11/22/17 |
| Life after death: Americans are embracing new ways to leave their remains | Tanya D. Marsh | 10/27/17 |
| How daughters can repair a damaged relationship with their divorced dad | Linda Nielsen | 7/10/17 |
