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Supreme Court sides with San Francisco, requiring EPA to set specific targets in water pollution permits

  • Written by Robin Kundis Craig, Professor of Law, University of Kansas
imageSwimmers gather at San Francisco's Ocean Beach for a Polar Plunge to start the new year, Jan. 1, 2025.Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images

The U.S. Supreme Court has limited how flexible the Environmental Protection Agency and states can be in regulating water pollution under the Clean Water Act in a ruling issued March 4, 2025. However, the...

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COVID-19 is the latest epidemic to show biomedical breakthroughs aren’t enough to eliminate a disease

  • Written by Powel H. Kazanjian, Professor of Infectious Diseases and of History, University of Michigan
imageCOVID-19 has become a part of modern life that many people don't pay much attention to.Spencer Platt via Getty Images News

The COVID-19 pandemic transformed over the past five years from a catastrophic threat that has killed over 7 million people to what most people regard today as a tolerable annoyance that doesn’t require precaution....

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Learning ethics − one Marvel movie at a time

  • Written by James Calvin Davis, Professor of Religion, Middlebury
imagePhilosophically, there's more to many superhero movies than first meets the eye.Daniel Fung/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

Title of course:

Ethics in the MCU

What prompted the idea for the course?

As a die-hard fan of the...

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USAID’s history shows decades of good work on behalf of America’s global interests, although not all its projects succeeded

  • Written by Christian Ruth, America in the World Consortium Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Florida
imageVolunteers at a camp for internally displaced people in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, carry wheat flour donated by USAID in December 2021. J. Countess/Getty Images

The Trump administration’s sudden dismantling of nearly all foreign aid, including the work carried out by the U.S. Agency for International Development, has upended the government...

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Influencers have trouble figuring out their tax obligations − and with good reason

  • Written by Sarah Webber, Associate Professor of Accounting, University of Dayton
imageIf influencer Jimmy Darts got any of this outdoor furniture for free, the IRS would probably see it as income.AP Photo/Chris Pizzello

The Internal Revenue Service hasn’t issued comprehensive guidance on how the estimated 27 million Americans earning income as influencers should report their income and expenses on their tax returns....

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Trump is the kinglike president many feared when arguing over the US Constitution in 1789 – and his address to Congress showed it

  • Written by Maurizio Valsania, Professor of American History, Università di Torino
imagePresident Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 4, 2025.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

If there are any limits to a president’s power, it wasn’t evident from Donald Trump’s speech before a joint session of Congress on March 4, 2025.

In that speech, the first before lawmakers of...

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A potential $110B economic hit: How Trump’s tariffs could mean rising costs for families, strain for states

  • Written by Bedassa Tadesse, Professor of Economics, University of Minnesota Duluth
imageA worker at a steel company in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, on Feb. 11, 2025. Julio Cesar Aguilar/AFP via Getty Images

Get ready to pay more for avocados, maple syrup and – well – almost everything.

The U.S. officially imposed new 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico on March 4, 2025, following through on a long-delayed pledge from...

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Extreme heat silently accelerates aging on a molecular level − new research

  • Written by Eunyoung Choi, Postdoctoral Associate in Gerontology, University of Southern California
imageExtreme heat increases the risk of a number of diseases, including kidney and heart conditions.Spencer Platt/Getty Images

What if extreme heat not only leaves you feeling exhausted but actually makes you age faster?

Scientists already know that extreme heat increases the risk of heat stroke, cardiovascular disease, kidney dysfunction and even...

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Gifts from top 50 US philanthropists rebounded to $16B in 2024 − Mike Bloomberg; Reed Hastings and Patty Quillin; and Michael and Susan Dell lead the list of biggest givers

  • Written by David Campbell, Professor of Public Administration, Binghamton University, State University of New York
imageMike Bloomberg speaks at the Global Renewables Summit in September 2024.Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Bloomberg Philanthropies

The 50 American individuals and couples who gave or pledged the most to charity in 2024 committed US$16.2 billion to foundations, universities, hospitals and more. That total was 33% above an inflation-adjusted $12.2...

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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs advises the president on use of America’s military power

  • Written by Dwight Stirling, Lecturer in Law, University of Southern California
imageIn February 2025, Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown, center, was fired as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by President Donald Trump.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

The dismissal of Gen. Charles Q. Brown as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was startling, if not unexpected, at the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term.

Trump...

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  5. How are clouds’ shapes made? A scientist explains the different cloud types and how they help forecast weather
  6. GOP lawmakers commit to big spending cuts, putting Medicaid under a spotlight – but trimming the low-income health insurance program would be hard
  7. Who’s who at the Vatican?
  8. What is isolationism? The history and politics of an often-maligned foreign policy concept
  9. From opposing robber barons to the New Deal to desegregation to DOGE, state attorneys general have long taken on Washington
  10. America’s designs on annexing Canada have a long history − and record of political failures
  11. What is Tren de Aragua? How the Venezuelan gang started − and why US policies may only make it stronger
  12. The only ‘winner’ here is Putin: Ukraine unites in response to Trump-Zelenskyy spat and resigns itself to new reality
  13. How Trump’s compulsion to dominate sabotages dealmaking, undermines democracy and threatens global stability
  14. Making English the official US language can’t erase the fact that the US has millions of Spanish speakers and a long multilingual history
  15. As flu cases break records this year, vaccine rates are declining, particularly for children and 65+ adults
  16. Texas records first US measles death in 10 years – a medical epidemiologist explains how to protect yourself and your community from this deadly, preventable disease
  17. Coastal economies rely on NOAA, from Maine to Florida, Texas and Alaska – even if they don’t realize it
  18. Just having a pet doesn’t help mental health – but pet-owners with secure relationships with their pets are less depressed
  19. What are conflicts of interest and what can be done about them?
  20. What’s a constitutional crisis? Here’s how Trump’s recent moves are challenging the Constitution’s separation of powers
  21. As the Kremlin eyes a thaw with the White House, Russia’s pro-war hawks aren’t too happy
  22. The science behind airplane deicing – a mechanical engineer explains how chemistry and physics make flying a more uplifting experience
  23. Maple seeds’ unique spinning motion allows them to travel far even in the rain, a new study shows
  24. Is a united European voice possible in the age of Trump, Putin and far-right politics? Germany’s new leader intends to find out
  25. Brutalism – the architectural style that dared to summon a new world from the ashes of World War II
  26. More Americans of all political stripes support government benefits for low-income people − and Black Lives Matter could be a big reason why
  27. Trump administration sets out to create an America its people have never experienced − one without a meaningful government
  28. Managers can help their Gen Z employees unlock the power of meaningful work − here’s how
  29. Identifying brands as Black-owned can pay off for businesses
  30. What is a charter school, really? Supreme Court ruling on whether Catholic charter is constitutional will hinge on whether they’re public or private
  31. Israel’s bombing of Gaza caused untold environmental damage − recovery will take effort and time
  32. Anti-DEI guidance from Trump administration misinterprets the law and guts educators’ free speech rights
  33. What’s the shape of the universe? Mathematicians use topology to study the shape of the world and everything in it
  34. AIs flunk language test that takes grammar out of the equation
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  39. States that impose severe prison sentences accomplish the opposite of what they say they want
  40. How ticket-splitting voters could shape the 2026 midterms
  41. Cutting Medicaid and federal programs are among 4 key Trump administration policy changes that could make life harder for disabled people
  42. USAID’s apparent demise and the US withdrawal from WHO put millions of lives worldwide at risk and imperil US national security
  43. How Nutriset, a French company, has helped alleviate hunger and create jobs in some of the world’s poorest places
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  49. Trump’s claims of vast presidential powers run up against Article 2 of the Constitution and exceed previous presidents’ power grabs
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