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/ 2 weeks agoHow early voting on campuses can boost election turnout – not only for students but for residents, too
Everyone is more likely to cast a ballot when voting is convenient, data from Florida’s early on-campus poll site shows.
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/ 2 weeks agoGenerative AI is most useful for the things we care about the least
The technology is always on call and is quite competent. But it lacks the contemplation and attention to detail that yield...
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/ 2 weeks agoColorado is tackling air pollution in vulnerable neighborhoods by regulating 5 air toxics
Limiting exposure to air pollution will have lasting impacts on Colorado communities with the highest exposure.
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/ 2 weeks agoSelenium is an essential nutrient named after the Greek goddess of the Moon − crucial to health, it may help prevent and treat cancer
You need only trace amounts of selenium to survive. Falling outside of this narrow therapeutic window can have significant health consequences.
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/ 2 weeks agoIf US attempts World Bank retreat, the China-led AIIB could be poised to step in – and provide a model of global cooperation
The AIIB is a paradox: an institution connected to the rules and norms of the liberal international order, but one created...
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/ 2 weeks agoFrancis − a pope who has cared deeply for the poor and opened up the Catholic Church
A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had...
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/ 2 weeks agoRising house prices don’t just make it harder to become a homeowner – they also widen the racial wealth gap
Housing market appreciation has been the primary driver of growing white-Black wealth disparities since the mid-1980s.
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/ 2 weeks agoHow Elon Musk’s deep ties to – and admiration for – China could complicate Trump’s Beijing policy
Tesla billionaire’s financial entanglement in China raises the prospect that he could be the odd man out when it comes to...
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/ 2 weeks agoThe murder rate in Venezuela has fallen − but both Trump and Maduro are wrong about why
Rather than ‘offshoring’ criminals to the US, Venezuelan government policies have both consolidated gangs and created volatile pacts with them.
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/ 2 weeks ago3 ways Trump is acting like a king and bypassing the Constitution’s checks and balances on presidential authority
The Trump administration has asserted a new balance of power among the three formerly coequal branches of government. In its version,...
