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/ 1 year agoTurkey faces competing pressures from Russia and the West to end its ‘middleman strategy’ and pick a side on the war in Ukraine
Turkey walks a fine line between NATO commitments and Western alliances and its dependence on Russia for financial resources and trade.
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/ 1 year agoPublic schools and faith-based chaplains: Texas’ new combination is testing the First Amendment
Recent Supreme Court decisions have signaled a shift in how the country’s highest court interprets the limits on religion in schools.
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/ 1 year agoTo better understand addiction, students in this course take a close look at liquor in literature
This course beckons students to examine how alcoholic beverages are portrayed in books by American authors.
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/ 1 year agoHow often do you lie? Deception researchers investigate how the recipient and the medium affect telling the truth
Researchers are interested in whether who you’re communicating with and how you’re interacting affect how likely you are to lie.
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/ 1 year agoNew House Speaker Mike Johnson leads a GOP majority weakened by decades of declining party authority
The problems faced by the House GOP in choosing a new speaker aren’t particular to Republicans. They’re a reflection of larger...
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/ 1 year agoAntisemitism has moved from the right to the left in the US − and falls back on long-standing stereotypes
Antisemitism in the US is growing – and that growth appears to be related to the escalation of the conflict between...
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/ 1 year agoPolls have value, even when they are wrong
Data gleaned from even early polls reveals critical clues on how voters view candidates and issues.
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/ 1 year agoWhen communities face drinking-water crises, bottled water is a ‘temporary’ solution that often lasts years − and worsens inequality
Dependence on bottled water weakens pressure to fix tap-water problems. Who pays the price?
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/ 1 year agoBeing humble about what you know is just one part of what makes you a good thinker
Being open to the possibility you could be wrong about your beliefs is an important part of learning about the world....
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/ 1 year agoWhat are roundabouts? A transportation engineer explains the safety benefits of these circular intersections
Whether you call them rotaries, traffic circles or roundabouts, they offer a safer alternative to the four-way stop. But the modern...
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/ 1 year agoFrom morgue to medical school: Cadavers of the poor, Black and vulnerable can be dissected without consent
Most states permit government officials to donate unclaimed bodies to medical schools, with no legal requirement for prior approval from the...
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/ 1 year agoIsraeli invasion of Gaza likely to resemble past difficult battles in Iraq and Syria
Hamas and the international community expect Israel to invade the Gaza Strip. The battle will probably be more like recent Middle...
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/ 1 year agoTCUS senior editor Kalpana Jain explores Indigenous communities in Indonesia − and learns about their struggles to reclaim land
The Conversation’s senior religion and ethics editor traveled the world to learn more about Indigenous populations. See one piece of what...
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/ 1 year agoAre ghosts real? A social psychologist examines the evidence
Ghosts can be spooky fun, but there’s no evidence they exist.
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/ 1 year agoLet the community work it out: Throwback to early internet days could fix social media’s crisis of legitimacy
In the days of online bulletin board systems, community members decided what was acceptable. Reviving that approach to content moderation offers...
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/ 1 year agoBacklash to the oil CEO leading the UN climate summit overlooks his ambitious agenda for COP28 – and concerns of the Global South
An analysis of past UN conference presidencies suggests the 2023 summit’s agenda would do more to accelerate the transition away from...
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/ 1 year agoThe Rio Grande isn’t just a border – it’s a river in crisis
When the Rio Grande figures in US news reports, it’s usually in relation to stories about immigration, drug trafficking or trade....
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/ 1 year agoHot-button topics may get public attention at the Vatican synod, but a more fundamental issue for the Catholic Church is at the heart of debate
Pope Francis’ Synod on Synodality is attempting to move the church toward a more dialogue-based model of authority, a scholar of...
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/ 1 year agoHow ‘La Catrina’ became the iconic symbol of Day of the Dead
An obscure Mexican engraver named José Guadalupe Posada created the satirical skull in the early 1900s and sold it for a...
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/ 1 year agoSpace rocks and asteroid dust are pricey, but these aren’t the most expensive materials used in science
Some space rocks you can get for free – if you know how to identify them. Rarer materials cost more, and...
