by Austin Sarat, Amherst College, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Throughout the 20th century, college and university presidents spoke out on everything, from wars to…
by Ana Santos Rutschman, Villanova University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] The Food and Drug Administration has refused to review an application from the biotech…
by Bruce Schneier, Harvard Kennedy School and Nathan Sanders, Harvard University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] In 2023, the science fiction literary magazine Clarkesworld stopped…
This article by Martha Bebinger, WBUR, first appeared in KFF Health News, republished with permission. Martha Bebinger, WBUR February 3, 2026 Inside a cancer research laboratory on the campus of…
by Patrick Barry, University of Michigan, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Journalist Ira Glass, who hosts the NPR show “This American Life,” is not a…
[This article by Alyssa Ozment with photo by Darnell Wilburn first appeared on the Kennesaw State University website, republished with permission] Preethi Titu spent her adolescence preparing to become a…
by Ahmed Elgammal, Rutgers University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Generative AI was trained on centuries of art and writing produced by humans. But scientists…
by Valerie L. Myers, University of Michigan, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Digital disruption and the climate crisis are often framed as economic or social…
by Jake Scott, Stanford University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] The Trump administration’s overhauling of the decades-old childhood vaccination schedule, announced by federal health officials…
by Elizabeth A. Logan, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and William Deverell, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, [This article first appeared in The Conversation,…