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/ 6 months agoWhat’s next after Supreme Court curbs regulatory power: More focus on laws’ wording, less on their goals
A widely anticipated Supreme Court ruling will sharply limit federal agencies’ power to interpret the laws that they execute and decide...
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/ 6 months agoDisability community has long wrestled with ‘helpful’ technologies – lessons for everyone in dealing with AI
Disabled people are experts in using – and designing – assistive technologies. They have lessons to offer everyone about keeping control...
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/ 6 months agoHow was popcorn discovered? An archaeologist on its likely appeal for people in the Americas millennia ago
Corn has its roots in Mexico about 9,000 years ago.
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/ 6 months ago5 questions after the NCAA’s $2.75B settlement to pay college athletes
A landmark settlement for student-athletes is raising questions that will take big-time college sports into uncharted territory, 2 sports management experts...
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/ 6 months agoLoss of Supreme Court legitimacy can lead to political violence
What happens if the highest court in the land loses legitimacy?
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/ 6 months agoBlack economic boycotts of the civil rights era still offer lessons on how to achieve a just society
By putting financial pressure on white businesses – often in a highly organized way – Black civil rights leaders achieved social...
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/ 6 months agoUS’s terrorist listing of European far-right group signals fears of rising threat − both abroad and at home
Listing a violent extremist group as ‘terrorist’ makes it illegal for any American to offer the organization financial support.
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/ 6 months agoKnowing when to call it quits takes courage and confidence – 3 case studies
How does someone with power and fame walk away from it? It’s not easy, as these three examples from politics and...
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/ 6 months agoSupreme Court rules cities can ban homeless people from sleeping outdoors – Sotomayor dissent summarizes opinion as ‘stay awake or be arrested’
In a major homelessness ruling, the Supreme Court holds that cities and municipalities can punish people for sleeping outside, even when...
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/ 6 months agoHow camping bans − like the one the Supreme Court just upheld − can fit into ‘hostile design’: Strategies to push out homeless people
Anti-camping laws are the centerpiece of the ‘hostile design’ strategies cities use to push the unhoused out of public spaces.
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/ 6 months agoSupreme Court makes prosecution of Trump on obstruction charge more difficult, with ruling to narrowly define law used against him and Jan. 6 rioters
Government prosecutors, ruled the Supreme Court, stretched the meaning of a law that’s been used to prosecute those alleged to have...
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/ 6 months agoICE detainees suffer preventable deaths − Q&A with a medical researcher about systemic failures
ICE detention facilities suffer from outdated systems, a lack of translation services – and a penchant for releasing ailing detainees to...
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/ 6 months agoFederal funding for major science agencies is at a 25-year low
Research funding is down in recent years despite promises made with the CHIPS and Science Act.
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/ 6 months agoWestern interest in ayahuasca is creating challenges for local Indigenous communities and raising issues of cultural appropriation
The psychotropic allure of the ayahuasca plant for hundreds of thousands of non-Indigenous consciousness seekers is raising many concerns.
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/ 6 months agoChatGPT and the movie ‘Her’ are just the latest example of the ‘sci-fi feedback loop’
Science fiction and technological innovation feed off each other in an ongoing back-and-forth that can play out over decades.
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/ 6 months agoBiden crashes, Trump lies: A campaign-defining presidential debate
Scholars of communication and politics assess a presidential debate with a clear loser, but no clear winner.
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/ 6 months agoSupreme Court sidesteps case on whether federal law on medical emergencies overrides Idaho’s abortion ban
The Supreme Court conceded that it should not have taken up the case to begin with.
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/ 6 months agoSupreme Court rejects settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma over legal protections for the Sackler family that owned the company
The company helped spur a public health crisis through its deceptive marketing and aggressive sales of prescription opioids.
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/ 6 months agoGazans’ extreme hunger could leave its mark on subsequent generations
Hunger, stress, trauma, inadequate sanitation and other factors are converging to create a widespread humanitarian disaster with consequences that could last...
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/ 6 months ago5 ways anti-diversity laws affect LGBTQ+ people and research in higher ed
Laws that scrap diversity, equity and inclusion programs on campus are likely to result in less support for LGBTQ+ students, a...
