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How antisemitic conspiracy theories contributed to the recent hostage-taking at the Texas synagogue

Jonathan D. Sarna

Stressed out at college? Here are five essential reads on how to take better care of your mental health

Alvin Buyinza

Overruling Roe may not be conservatives' best strategy – Brown v. Board of Education shows how Supreme Court can uphold precedent while gutting its meaning

Michael J. Saks

ShakeAlert earthquake warnings can give people time to protect themselves – but so far, few have actually done so

Dare A. Baldwin

A year after Navalny's return, Putin remains atop a changed Russia

Regina Smyth

Supreme Court rejects Trump's blocking of Jan. 6 docs: 3 key takeaways from ruling

Kirsten Carlson

The better you are at math, the more money seems to influence your satisfaction

Ellen Peters

Why getting Congress to fund help for US children in poverty is so hard to do

Leslie Lenkowsky

Pain and anxiety are linked to breathing in mouse brains – suggesting a potential target to prevent opioid overdose deaths

Sung Han

The Electoral Count Act of 1887 is showing its age – here's how to help Congress certify a presidential election with more certainty

Derek T. Muller

Beavers offer lessons about managing water in a changing climate, whether the challenge is drought or floods

Christine E. Hatch

Batteries get hyped, but pumped hydro provides the vast majority of long-term energy storage essential for renewable power – here’s how it works

Andrew Blakers

How the pandemic's unequal toll on people of color underlines US health inequities – and why solving them is so critical

Abubakarr Jalloh

CORBEVAX, a new patent-free COVID-19 vaccine, could be a pandemic game changer globally

Maureen Ferran

The omicron variant is deepening severe staffing shortages in medical laboratories across the US

Rodney E. Rohde

What 13th-century Christian theologian Thomas Aquinas can teach us about hope in times of despair

Christopher Beem

What causes a tsunami? An ocean scientist explains the physics of these destructive waves

Sally Warner

State efforts to close the K-12 digital divide may come up short

Stephanie Holcomb

Yes, it's easier to get birth control than it was in the 1970s – but women still need abortion care

Emily M. Godfrey

Why massive new youth sports facilities may not lead to the tourist boom many communities hope for when they build them

Richard Buning

Microsoft purchase of Activision Blizzard won't clean up gamer culture overnight: 5 essential reads about sexual harassment and discrimination in gaming and tech

Eric Smalley

Taliban 2.0 aren't so different from the first regime, after all

Atal Ahmadzai

Sperm donation is largely unregulated, but that could soon change as lawsuits multiply

Naomi Cahn

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Taylor Dotson

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Casey D. Cobb

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Klaus Lackner

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Tahira Reid

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Beronda L. Montgomery

Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.: 5 things I've learned curating the MLK Collection at Morehouse College

Vicki Crawford