What exactly is inflation, and are interest rates the only option for dealing with it?
Alexander Spatari/Getty ImagesJust when we thought it was safe to return to the supermarket aisle, it seems inflation has come bac...
Historically Black colleges and universities do more than offer Black youths a pathway to opportunity and success – I teach criminology, and my research suggests another benefit
Jackson State University students attend an event in Mississippi in October 2025. Aron Smith/Jackson State University via Getty I...
Local governments provide proof that polarization is not inevitable
Local officials get to participate in events such as ribbon cuttings, celebrating projects they may have helped make happen.NHLI/E...
How a 22-year-old George Washington learned how to lead, from a series of mistakes in the Pennsylvania wilderness
A young George Washington was thrust into the dense, contested wilderness of the Ohio River Valley as a land surveyor for real est...
Mapping cemeteries for class – how students used phones and drones to help a city count its headstones
Miami University students in the author's advanced GIS course collect headstone data.Robbyn Abbitt, CC BY-SAIf you told …
RNA is key to the dark matter of the genome − scientists are sequencing it to illuminate human health and…
There is still a great deal unknown about RNA and its modifications.Christoph Burgstedt/Science Photo Library via Getty …
‘Which Side Are You On?’: American protest songs have emboldened social movements for generations, from coal country to Minneapolis
Bruce Springsteen and Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine perform on Jan. 30, 2026, in a concert in Minneapolis in p…
Why eating cheap chocolate can feel embarrassing – even though no one else cares
How you feel about a treat can change based on the judgment of others.DeanDrobot/iStock via Getty Images PlusIt’s …
As Jeff Bezos dismantles The Washington Post, 5 regional papers chart a course for survival
The ranks of The Washington Post's newsroom have shrunk since this photo was taken in 2016.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images…
Why Christian clergy see risk as part of their moral calling
A large group of protesters, including clergy, gathered outside St. Paul International Airport in St. Paul, Minn., on Ja…
Amid an Olympic boom, it’s risky timing to lift a ban on developers’ political donations
Queensland is a step closer to lifting a ban on political donations from property developers – despite a corruptio…
Held captive in their own country during World War II, Japanese Americans used nature to cope with their unjustified imprisonment
Japanese Americans incarcerated at Heart Mountain concentration camp in Wyoming took art classes at the craft shop, usin…
AI isn’t likely to wipe out all farming jobs – but it is changing who bears the risks
Herney/PixabayThe global economy is bracing for major job disruption as artificial intelligence (AI) advances and spread…
Valentine’s Day cards too sugary sweet for you? Return to the 19th-century custom of the spicy ‘vinegar valentine’
A woman turns down a dapper 'snake' in a 'vinegar valentine' from the 1870s.Wikimedia CommonsAhh, Valentine’s Day:…
Philadelphia was once a sweet spot for chocolatiers and other candymakers who made iconic treats for Valentine’s Day and other…
S.F. Whitman & Sons introduced the Whitman's Sampler, an assortment of its popular chocolates, in 1912. HUM Images/U…
How do scientists hunt for dark matter? A physicist explains why the mysterious substance is so hard to find
The Coma Cluster, research into which supports the existence of dark matter. NASA, ESA, J. Mack (STScl), and J. Madrid (…
Infusing asphalt with plastic could help roads last longer and resist cracking under heat
A stretch of road near Rockwall, Texas, paved with plastic-infused asphalt. Md. Sahadat HossainGlobally, more than 400 m…
Fifteen years after Egypt’s uprising, how faith and politics reshaped a generation
The crowd in Tahrir Square in Cairo just before a speech by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Feb. 10, 2011.Photo by C…