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Supreme Court upholds childproofing porn sites

Meg Leta Jones, Georgetown University

What the Supreme Court ruling against ‘universal injunctions’ means for court challenges to presidential actions

Cassandra Burke Robertson, Case Western Reserve University

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Trump’s attack on long-standing principle of birthright citizenship stands, as Supreme Court sidesteps constitutional issue − for now

Carol Nackenoff, Swarthmore College and Julie Novkov, University at Albany, State University of New York

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Iran emerged weakened and vulnerable after war with Israel − and that could mean trouble for country’s ethnic minorities

Shukriya Bradost, Virginia Tech

How Zohran Mamdani’s win in the New York City mayoral primary could ripple across the country

Lincoln Mitchell, Columbia University

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Supreme Court rules that states may deny people covered by Medicaid the freedom to choose Planned Parenthood as their health care provider

Naomi Cahn, University of Virginia and Sonia Suter, George Washington University

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What Trump’s budget proposal says about his environmental values

Stan Meiburg, Wake Forest University and Janet McCabe, Indiana University

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Michelin Guide scrutiny could boost Philly tourism, but will it stifle chefs’ freedom to experiment and innovate?

Jonathan Deutsch, Drexel University

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Why energy markets fluctuate during an international crisis

Skip York, Rice University

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Hurricane Helene set up future disasters, from landslides to flooding – cascading hazards like these are now upending risk models

Brian J. Yanites, Indiana University

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Toxic algae blooms are lasting longer in Lake Erie − why that’s a worry for people and pets

Gregory J. Dick, University of Michigan

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Jews were barred from Spain’s New World colonies − but that didn’t stop Jewish and converso writers from describing the Americas

Flora Cassen, Washington University in St. Louis and Ronnie Perelis, Yeshiva University

Scandinavia has its own dark history of assimilating Indigenous people, and churches played a role – but are apologizing

Thomas A. DuBois, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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What is reconciliation − the legislative shortcut Republicans are using to push through their ‘big, beautiful bill’?

Linda J. Bilmes, Harvard Kennedy School

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A preservative removed from childhood vaccines 20 years ago is still causing controversy today − a drug safety expert explains

Terri Levien, Washington State University

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Uranium enrichment: A chemist explains how the surprisingly common element is processed to power reactors and weapons

André O. Hudson, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Yelp’s addition of a ‘Black-owned’ tag led to a slight drop in business ratings in Detroit

Matthew Bui, University of Michigan and Cameron Moy, University of Pennsylvania

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What if universal rental assistance were implemented to deal with the housing crisis?

Alex Schwartz, The New School and Kirk McClure, University of Kansas

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Self-censorship and the ‘spiral of silence’: Why Americans are less likely to publicly voice their opinions on political issues

James L. Gibson, Washington University in St. Louis

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I’m a physician who has looked at hundreds of studies of vaccine safety, and here’s some of what RFK Jr. gets wrong

Jake Scott, Stanford University

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War in Iran

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What happens next in US-Iran relations will be informed by the two countries’ shared history

Gregory F. Treverton, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Presidents of both parties have launched military action without Congress declaring war − Trump’s bombing of Iran is just the latest

Sarah Burns, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Gulf states want no winner in the conflict between Israel and Iran

Mira Al Hussein, University of Edinburgh

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US and Iran have a long, complicated history, spanning decades before US strikes on nuclear sites

Jeffrey Fields, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

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Ceasefires like the one between Iran and Israel often fail – but an agreement with specific conditions is more likely to hold

Donald Heflin, Tufts University

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Trump administration aims to slash funds that preserve the nation’s rich architectural and cultural history

Michael R. Allen, West Virginia University

Supreme Court rules Trump can rapidly deport immigrants to Libya, South Sudan and other countries they aren’t from

Eleanor Paynter, University of Oregon

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Federal energy office illustrates the perils of fluctuating budgets and priorities

Christelle Khalaf, University of Illinois Chicago

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The sleeper Supreme Court decision that could have profound impacts on the Trump administration agenda – and restore faith in the high court

Ray Brescia, Albany Law School

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Trump administration’s conflicting messages on Chinese student visas reflect complex US-China relations

Meredith Oyen, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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From Washington’s burned letters to Trump’s missing transcripts, partial presidential records limit people’s full understanding of history

Shannon Bow O'Brien, The University of Texas at Austin

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Energy Star, on the Trump administration’s target list, has a long history of helping consumers’ wallets and the planet

Magali A. Delmas, University of California, Los Angeles

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Samara McPhedran, Griffith University

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Sanctuary cities can’t protect people from ICE immigration raids − but they don’t actually violate federal law

Benjamin Gonzalez O'Brien, San Diego State University and Loren Collingwood, University of New Mexico

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International

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Southeast Asian nations look to hedge their way out of troubled waters in the South China Sea

John Rennie Short, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

German chancellor’s rebuke of Israel marks a shift in state policy that has long put such criticism out of bounds

Elisabeth Weber, University of California, Santa Barbara

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When developing countries band together, lifesaving drugs become cheaper and easier to buy − with trade-offs

Lucy Xiaolu Wang, UMass Amherst and Nahim Bin Zahur, Queen's University, Ontario

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Iran-Israel ‘threshold war’ has rewritten nuclear escalation rules

Farah N. Jan, University of Pennsylvania

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Two-state solution in the Middle East has been a core US policy for 25 years – is the Trump administration eyeing a change?

Dan Arbell, American University

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Mitochondria can sense bacteria and trigger your immune system to trap them – revealing new ways to treat infections and autoimmunity 

Andrew Monteith, University of Tennessee

More than half of US teens have had at least one cavity, but fluoride programs in schools help prevent them – new research

Christina Scherrer, Kennesaw State University and Shillpa Naavaal, Virginia Commonwealth University

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Neuropathic pain has no immediate cause – research on a brain receptor may help stop this hard-to-treat condition

Pooja Shree Chettiar, Texas A&M University and Siddhesh Sabnis, Texas A&M University

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AI helps tell snow leopards apart, improving population counts for these majestic mountain predators

Eve Bohnett, University of Florida

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RNA has newly identified role: Repairing serious DNA damage to maintain the genome

Francesca Storici, Georgia Institute of Technology

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6 tips for staying safe in extreme heat if you’re a runner, cyclist or anyone else active outdoors

Susan Yeargin, University of South Carolina

How to stay cool during heat waves – and heat stroke warning signs to watch for

Brian Bossak, College of Charleston

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After the smoke clears, a wildfire’s legacy can haunt rivers for years, putting drinking water at risk

Ben Livneh, University of Colorado Boulder

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Extreme weather’s true damage cost is a mystery – that’s a problem for understanding storm risk

John Nielsen-Gammon, Texas A&M University and William Baule, Texas A&M University

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Wildfire smoke is linked to thousands of premature deaths every year – here’s why and how to protect yourself

Rachel Connolly, University of California, Los Angeles and Michael Jerrett, University of California, Los Angeles

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