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As Trump tries to slash US foreign aid, here are 3 common myths many Americans mistakenly believe about it

  • Written by Joannie Tremblay-Boire, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of Maryland
imageU.S. lawmakers and employees and supporters of the U.S. Agency for International Development speak outside the agency's headquarters on Feb. 3, 2025.Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

U.S. foreign aid is in disarray.

The Trump administration froze most aid disbursements on Jan. 20. According to billionaire Elon Musk, an adviser to President Donald Trump...

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Trump’s opening tariff salvo will hurt US consumers − following through on Canada, Mexico threats will increase the price pain

  • Written by Jason Reed, Associate Teaching Professor of Finance, University of Notre Dame

If U.S. voters reelected Donald Trump hoping for relief from higher prices, his recent threats to impose tariffs on America’s three largest trade partners might make them think again.

On Saturday, Feb. 1, Trump announced 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico and 10% tariffs on China, which he said would take effect on Tuesday, Feb. 4. While...

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Trump’s tariff gambit: As allies prepare to strike back, a costly trade war looms

  • Written by Bedassa Tadesse, Professor of Economics, University of Minnesota Duluth

On Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump announced a plan to slap steep tariffs on imports from key American trading partners – 25% on goods from Mexico and Canada and 10% on imports from China. His stated reason? To curb illegal immigration and drug trafficking.

Both Mexico and Canada managed to buy some time. After urgent...

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Who are immigrants to the US, where do they come from and where do they live?

  • Written by Jennifer Van Hook, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Demography, Penn State
imageImmigrants to the U.S. increasingly arrive like these people, seeking asylum at a formal border crossing, rather than trying to sneak across the border.Carlos Moreno/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Undocumented immigration is a key issue in American politics, but it can be hard to nail down the basic facts about who these immigrants are, where they live...

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What the ‘moral distress’ of doctors tells us about eroding trust in health care

  • Written by Daniel T. Kim, Assistant Professor of Bioethics, Albany Medical College

I sit on an ethics review committee at the Albany Med Health System in New York state, where doctors and nurses frequently bring us fraught questions.

Consider a typical case: A 6-month-old child has suffered a severe brain injury following cardiac arrest. A tracheostomy, ventilator and feeding tube are the only treatments keeping him alive. These...

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Some viruses prefer mosquitoes to humans, but people get sick anyway − a virologist and entomologist explain why

  • Written by Lee Rafuse Haines, Associate Research Professor of Molecular Parasitology and Medical Entomology, University of Notre Dame
imageThe _Aedes_ mosquito is a vector of several viral diseases, including eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, and West Nile fever.Lee Haines, CC BY-ND

Humans have an exceptional ability to deal with viruses. In most cases, your immune system is able to fight an infection. On the other hand, your body provides a spa-like environment that is temperate...

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Smart brands rein in ad spending when a rival faces a setback − here’s why

  • Written by Vivek Astvansh, Associate Professor of Quantitative Marketing and Analytics, McGill University
imageWhen a rival business stumbles, it's both a threat and an opportunity.Matt Molloy via Getty Images Plus

Imagine: You’re in charge of marketing for a major automaker, and your biggest competitor just recalled thousands of vehicles. Now customers are worried about the safety of cars like yours. Do you seize the moment and ramp up advertising to...

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Hunger rises as food aid falls – and those living under autocratic systems bear the brunt

  • Written by Jonas Gamso, Associate Professor and Deputy Dean of Knowledge Enterprise for the Thunderbird School of Global Management, Arizona State University
imageVolunteers hand out USAID flour at the Zanzalima Camp in Ethiopia.J. Countess/Getty Images

“No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy,” observed Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen in his 1999 book “Development as Freedom.”

My recent research doesn’t tackle Sen’s...

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Why are rubies red and emeralds green? Their colors come from the same metal in their atomic structure

  • Written by Daniel Freedman, Dean of the College of Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics & Management, University of Wisconsin-Stout
imageRubies get their bright color from some fascinating chemistry. Matthew Hill/Bloomberg Creative Photos via Getty Images

The colors of rubies and emeralds are so striking that they define shades of red and green – ruby red and emerald green. But have you ever wondered how they get those colors?

I am an inorganic chemist. Researchers in my field...

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I’m a sports psychologist and diehard Eagles fan – here’s the behavioral science behind a Super Bowl LIX win

  • Written by Eric Zillmer, Professor of Neuropsychology, Drexel University
imagePhiladelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts' innovative plays demonstrate 'brain connectivity at its finest,' the author writes.Mitchell Leff via Getty Images

The Super Bowl is one of the world’s most significant single-day sporting events.

It attracts over 100 million U.S. viewers and tens of millions of international viewers, making it an...

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  5. 3 ways the Trump administration could reinvest in rural America’s future, starting with health care
  6. Trump’s Project 2025 agenda caps decades-long resistance to 20th century progressive reform
  7. Trump’s tariff threats fit a growing global phenomenon: hardball migration diplomacy
  8. Drought can hit almost anywhere: How 5 cities that nearly ran dry got water use under control
  9. Fossil shark teeth are abundant and can date the past in a unique way
  10. Rare portraits reveal the humanity of the slaves who revolted on the Amistad
  11. Your environment affects how well your medications work − identifying exactly how could make medicine better
  12. Where does black fall on the color spectrum? A color scientist explains
  13. The Black librarian who rewrote the rules of power, gender and passing as white
  14. Bogus scientific papers are enriching fraudsters and slowing lifesaving medical research
  15. Property and sovereignty in space − as countries and companies take to the stars, they could run into disputes
  16. Can a charter school be religious? The Supreme Court decision about St. Isidore, a Catholic school in Oklahoma, could redraw lines around church and state in education
  17. AI gives nonprogrammers a boost in writing computer code
  18. Teens on social media: Red, blue and purple states are all passing laws to restrict and protect adolescents
  19. Nonprofits that provide shelter for homeless people, disaster recovery help, and food for low-income Americans rely heavily on federal funding – they would be reeling if Trump froze that money
  20. From breakbeats to the dance floor: How hip-hop and house revolutionized music and culture
  21. How nonprofits abroad can fill gaps when the US government cuts off foreign aid
  22. Biden targeted the online right-wing terrorism threat − now it’s up to Trump
  23. A federal policy expert weighs in on Trump’s efforts to stifle gender-affirming care for Americans under 19
  24. How satellites and AI help fight wildfires today
  25. Why Trump’s meme coin is a cash grab
  26. Stricter abortion laws may cause increased infant deaths − 2 maternal and child health researchers explain the data
  27. ‘We painted our fear, hope and dreams’ − examining the art and artists of Guantánamo Bay
  28. Gen Z seeks safety above all else as the generation grows up amid constant crisis and existential threat
  29. Philly Whole Foods store becomes first to unionize – a labor expert explains what’s next and how Trump could stall workers’ efforts
  30. Bennu asteroid reveals its contents to scientists − and clues to how the building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded
  31. Problematic Paper Screener: Trawling for fraud in the scientific literature
  32. Why building big AIs costs billions – and how Chinese startup DeepSeek dramatically changed the calculus
  33. Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research
  34. Rest, reorientation and hope – the pillars of 2025’s Catholic Jubilee year
  35. President Carter had to balance employers’ demands for foreign workers with pressure to restrict immigration – and so does Trump
  36. Skin phantoms help researchers improve wearable devices without people wearing them
  37. Almost half of evicted women and families in metro Detroit say they were illegally pushed out of their homes
  38. ‘Aliens’ and ‘animals’ – language of hate used by Trump and others can be part of a violent design
  39. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination signals a new era of anti-intellectualism in American politics
  40. What’s behind Trump’s flurry of executive action: 4 essential reads on autocrats and authoritarianism
  41. Commerce oversees everything from weather and salmon to trade and census − here are 3 challenges awaiting new secretary
  42. ¿Trump va en serio con cambiar el nombre del Golfo de México al ‘Golfo de América’? Esto explica una geógrafa
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  45. In asking Trump to show mercy, Bishop Budde continues a long tradition of Christian leaders ‘speaking truth to power’
  46. St. Thomas Aquinas’ skull just went on tour − here’s what the medieval saint himself would have said about its veneration
  47. Disaster evacuations can take much longer than people expect − computer simulations could help save lives and avoid chaos
  48. Global wildlife trade is an enormous market – a look at the billions of animals the US imports from nearly 30,000 species
  49. Global wildlife trade is an enormous market – the US imports billions of animals from nearly 30,000 species
  50. Donors are down, but dollars are up – how US charitable giving is changing