How the QAnon movement entered mainstream politics – and why the silence on Epstein files matters
QAnon supporters wait for Donald Trump to speak at a campaign rally at Atlantic Aviation on September 22, 2020, in Moon Township, ...
How the ‘big, beautiful bill’ will deepen the racial wealth gap – a law scholar explains how it reduces poor families’ ability to afford food and health care
President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio watch Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on television after the House pa...
‘I just couldn’t stop crying’: How prison affects Black men’s mental health long after they’ve been released
Black men who have been incarcerated have elevated rates of PTSD, depression and psychological distress.da-kuk/E+ Collection via G...
Florida plan to deputize National Guard officers as immigration judges at Alligator Alcatraz would likely violate constitutional rights
President Donald Trump visits Alligator Alcatraz in Ochopee, Florida on July 1, 2025.Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Image...
Leaders in India, Hungary and the US are using appeals to nostalgia and nationalism to attack higher education
Two scholars argue that nostalgia and resentment fuel government attacks on universities.Rick Friedman/AFPHarvard Univer…
About a third of pregnant women in the US lack sufficient vitamin D to support healthy pregnancies − new research
Higher vitamin D levels in a mother's blood during pregnancy have been linked to higher IQ scores in early childhood and…
Can AI think – and should it? What it means to think, from Plato to ChatGPT
Ancient Greek concepts about intelligence can shed light on 21st-century tech they never knew.agsandrew/iStock via Getty…
Idi Amin made himself out to be the ‘liberator’ of an oppressed majority – a demagogic trick that endures today
Idi Amin addresses the United Nations General Assembly in 1975.Bettmann/Getty ImagesFifty years ago, Ugandan President I…
From ‘Stone Age’ treasury boss to National Party Senator: John Stone 1929–2025
AUSPICJohn Owen Stone AO was a legendary leader of the Commonwealth Treasury. He was secretary (departmental head) from …
Clawback of $1.1B for PBS and NPR puts rural stations at risk – and threatens a vital source of journalism
Nathan Heffel and Grace Hood rehearse their Colorado Public Radio public affairs program in Centennial, Colo., in 2017. …
Why male corporate leaders and billionaires may need financial therapy more than anyone
Corporate leaders and billionaires are often viewed as visionaries and wealth creators. But beneath the surface, many ar…
Poll finds bipartisan agreement on a key issue: Regulating AI
Are concerns about AI a bridge across the polarization divide?ZargonDesign/iStock via Getty ImagesIn the run-up to the v…
When grief involves trauma − a social worker explains how to support survivors of the recent floods and other devastating…
Rain falls over a makeshift memorial for flood victims along the Guadalupe River on July 13, 2025, in Kerrville, Texas.A…
Supreme Court news coverage has talked a lot more about politics ever since the 2016 death of Scalia and GOP…
Reporters used to treat the Supreme Court as a nonpolitical institution, but not anymore.Tetra Images/GettyThe U.S. Supr…
Children living near oil and gas wells face higher risk of rare leukemia, studies show
The U.S. has nearly 1 million oil and natural gas wells. Some, like the one here in Commerce City, Colo., are within a f…
Research replication can determine how well science is working – but how do scientists replicate studies?
Some research teams work on replicating prior studies to assess the value of a body of work. AzmanL/E+ via Getty ImagesB…
Philly’s City Council turned down a new rental inspection program − studies show that might harm tenants’ health
Tenants who complain to landlords about housing conditions can risk eviction.Photo Jeff Fusco/The Conversation U.S., CC …
Data can show if government programs work or not, but the Trump administration is suppressing the necessary information
Do government programs work? It's impossible to find out with no data.Andranik Hakobyan/iStock via Getty Images PlusThe …