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The nation is missing millions of voters due to lack of rights for former felons

  • Written by Kevin B. Smith, Professor of Political Science, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
imageJavon Jackson, center, was able to register to vote following passage of a 2019 Nevada law that restored voting rights to formerly incarcerated individuals.AP Photo/John Locher

If you gathered every American with a prison record into one contiguous territory and admitted it to the union, you would create the 12th-largest state. It would be home to a...

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Failure of US-Iran talks was all too predictable — but turning to military strikes creates dangerous unknowns

  • Written by Nina Srinivasan Rathbun, Professor of International Relations, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto; USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
imageWhen it came to U.S.-Iran talks, the writing was on the wall.Mohammadali Najib/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images

Three rounds of nuclear talks between the U.S. and Iran failed to persuade President Donald Trump that a solution to the two countries’ nuclear impasse lay in diplomacy, rather than military action. A perceived lack of...

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Kansas revoked transgender people’s IDs overnight – researchers anticipate cascading health and social consequences

  • Written by Jae A. Puckett, Associate Professor of Psychology, Michigan State University
imageAnti-trans bills effectively restrict transgender people's ability to participate fully in society.AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson

The number of bills directly targeting and undermining the existing legal rights of transgender and nonbinary people in the U.S. has been escalating, with sharp increases since 2021 and with each consecutive year....

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Despite massive US attack and death of ayatollah, regime change in Iran is unlikely

  • Written by Donald Heflin, Executive Director of the Edward R. Murrow Center and Senior Fellow of Diplomatic Practice, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
imageA group of demonstrators in Tehran wave Iranian flags in support of the government on Feb. 28, 2026AP Photo/Vahid Salemi

After the largest buildup of U.S. warships and aircraft in the Middle East in decades, American and Israeli military forces launched a massive assault on Iran on Feb. 28, 2026.

President Donald Trump has called the attacks “m...

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Iran will respond to US-Israeli strikes as existential threats to the regime – because they are

  • Written by Javed Ali, Associate Professor of Practice of Public Policy, University of Michigan
imageA plume of smoke rises above Tehran on Feb. 28, 2026.AFP via Getty Images

After U.S. and Israeli missiles struck Iran’s nuclear sites in June 2025, Tehran responded with a limited attack on the American airbase in Qatar. Five years before that, a U.S. drone strike against Qasem Soleimani, head of the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...

Read more: Iran will respond to US-Israeli strikes as existential threats to the regime – because they are

Cuba’s speedboat shootout recalls long history of exile groups engaged in covert ops aimed at regime change

  • Written by William M. LeoGrande, Professor of Government, American University School of Public Affairs
imageCuban coast guard ships docked at the port of Havana on Feb. 25, 2026.Adalberto Roque/ AFP via Getty Images

A boat carrying 10 heavily armed men entered Cuban territorial waters on Feb. 25, 2026, intent, according to officials in Havana, on infiltrating the island nation and undermining the communist government through acts of sabotage and...

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Drug company ads are easy to blame for misleading patients and raising costs, but research shows they do help patients get needed treatment

  • Written by Anna Chorniy, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Institute for Humane Studies
imageThe United States is one of just two countries where drugmakers can advertise directly to patients.BrianAJackson/iStock via Getty Images

It’s a familiar experience for many Americans: You’re watching your favorite show and suddenly you’re ambushed by an ad for a drug whose name sounds like a Wi-Fi password, before a relentlessly...

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Tiny recording backpacks reveal bats’ surprising hunting strategy

  • Written by Leonie Baier, Postdoctoral Fellow in Behavioral Biology, Naturalis Biodiversity Center
imageA fringe-lipped bat carries a sound-and-movement biologging tag.Leonie Baier, CC BY-SA

Deep into the Panamanian night, the forest hums with sound. Chirping insects form a steady backdrop, rain softly trickles from leaves. Somewhere above a stream, frogs call into the darkness.

But I am not there to see this scene.

It’s already passed. What I...

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Nanoparticles and artificial intelligence can help researchers detect pollutants in water, soil and blood

  • Written by Andres B. Sanchez Alvarado, Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry, Rice University
imageNanoparticles on a glass slide amplify the sensitivity of a microscope to detect trace amounts of hazardous pollutants.Brandon Martin/Rice University

Across the U.S., hundreds of sites on land or in lakes and rivers are heavily contaminated with hazardous waste produced by human activity. Many of these places, designated as Superfund sites by the...

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Bad Bunny says reggaeton is Puerto Rican, but it was born in Panama

  • Written by Brendan Frizzell, PhD Student in Sociology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
imagePuerto Rican reggaeton artist Bad Bunny performs the Super Bowl halftime show on Feb. 8, 2026, in Santa Clara, Calif.Bob Kupbens/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images

Bad Bunny likes to remind the world where he and his music come from.

In “EoO,” a song from his 2025 album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS,” he raps,...

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  3. Former Harvard president Summers’ soft landing after Epstein revelations is case study of economics’ trouble with misbehaving men
  4. Will AI accelerate or undermine the way humans have always innovated?
  5. Fewer new moms are dying in Colorado – naloxone might be one reason why
  6. The apocrypha, Christianity’s ‘hidden’ texts, may not be in the Bible – but they have shaped tradition for centuries
  7. How natural hydrogen, hiding deep in the Earth, could serve as a new energy source
  8. How to prevent elections from being stolen − lessons from around the world for the US
  9. Minneapolis united when federal immigration operations surged – reflecting a long tradition of mutual aid
  10. It’s never too late to learn a language – adults and kids bring different strengths to the task
  11. AI’s growing appetite for power is putting Pennsylvania’s aging electricity grid to the test
  12. Abortion laws show that public policy doesn’t always line up with public opinion
  13. Why US third parties perform best in the Northeast
  14. The cost of casting animals as heroes and villains in conservation science
  15. Detroit was once home to 18 Black-led hospitals – here’s how to understand their rise and fall
  16. How protecting wilderness could mean purposefully tending it, not just leaving it alone
  17. From moral authority to risk management: How university presidents stopped speaking their minds
  18. Pittsburgh nurses are fighting for better staffing ratios — and the research backs them up
  19. Making sense of a chaotic planet: How understanding weather and climate risks depends on supercomputers like NCAR’s
  20. Taboo tics like shouting curses and slurs are uncommon in Tourette syndrome − but people who have them suffer harsh social stigma
  21. Why does pain last longer for women? Immune cells may be the culprit
  22. Why ICE’s body camera policies make the videos unlikely to improve accountability and transparency
  23. Honoring Colorado’s Black History requires taking the time to tell stories that make us think twice
  24. Artists and writers are often hesitant to disclose they’ve collaborated with AI – and those fears may be justified
  25. 50 years ago, the Supreme Court broke campaign finance regulation
  26. 1 protein to rule them all – why crowning the protein that makes jellyfish glow green as a model can help scientists streamline biology
  27. ‘Probably’ doesn’t mean the same thing to your AI as it does to you
  28. When civil rights protesters are killed, some deaths – generally those of white people – resonate more
  29. Florida’s proposed cuts to AIDS drug program threaten patient care and public health
  30. Supreme Court’s Michigan pipeline case is about Native rights and fossil fuels, not just technical legal procedure
  31. Baptists have helped shape debate about religious freedom for over 400 years – up to today’s 10 Commandments laws
  32. Why standing in solidarity with immigrants is an act of accompaniment in Catholic philosophy
  33. Violent aftermath of Mexico’s ‘El Mencho’ killing follows pattern of other high-profile cartel hits
  34. Crowdfunded generosity isn’t taxable – but IRS regulations haven’t kept up with the growth of mutual aid
  35. Picky eating starts in the womb – a nutritional neuroscientist explains how to expand your child’s palate
  36. What is Bluetooth and how does it work?
  37. How transparent policies can protect Florida school libraries amid efforts to ban books
  38. Algorithms that customize marketing to your phone could also influence your views on warfare
  39. Colleges face a choice: Try to shape AI’s impact on learning, or be redefined by it
  40. Michelangelo hated painting the Sistine Chapel – and never aspired to be a painter to begin with
  41. How Homeland Security’s subpoenas and databases of protesters threaten the ‘uninhibited, robust, and wide-open’ free speech protected by Supreme Court precedent
  42. Meekness isn’t weakness – once considered positive, it’s one of the ‘undersung virtues’ that deserve defense today
  43. Why Stephen Colbert is right about the ‘equal time’ rule, despite warnings from the FCC
  44. As war in Ukraine enters a 5th year, will the ‘Putin consensus’ among Russians hold?
  45. Supreme Court rules against Trump’s emergency tariffs – but leaves key questions unanswered
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  49. Individual donors provide only a small slice of university research funding – but Jeffrey Epstein’s ties with academics show why screening matters
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