By Leo S. Lo, Dean, University of Virginia
One Google response asked for my medical history. Another answered a personal health question without asking who I was. Both replies came across as authoritative advice.
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By Ann Sheehan, Assistant Dean for Practice, Innovation, and Professional Education and Associate Professor of Nursing, Michigan State University
Keeping children home from school if they have COVID-19 protects family and school community members at high risk of serious illness.
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By Shawnita Sealy-Jefferson, Associate Professor of Social Epidemiology, The Ohio State University
Detroit had 20,370 eviction cases filed in 2025. But evictions that do not go through the formal court process are not included in the city’s official eviction data.
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By Jeremiah Favara, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Gonzaga University
Half of the officers who have been fired or blocked from promotion are women or Black. A scholar who studies the US military explains why that’s dangerous.
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By J. Toby Reiner, Professor of Political Science, Dickinson College
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested roughly 50,000 immigrants in July and August 2026; almost 80% of those migrants did not have a criminal record. Until the end of the Biden administration, federal authorities did not expect migrants to leave the country while their visa renewal was pending. The Trump administration has changed that policy.
ICE has…
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By Reuven Kimelman, Professor of Classical Judaica, Brandeis University, Brandeis University
A central theme of the High Holidays – and Judaism itself – is that to do right by God, people must first do right by each other.
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By Tarun Gopalakrishnan, Research Fellow in the Climate Policy Lab, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Getting Loss and Damage Fund money would be worth a lot more than the $20 million Nepal is asking for. The foreign minister calls it a demand for justice and ‘legal and moral liability.’
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By Sunny Linnebur, Professor of Geriatric Pharmacy, University of Colorado Anschutz
Some Coloradans have a drug problem: old prescription medications clogging their medicine cabinets.
Disposing of unused prescription and over-the-counter drugs is important to protect children and teens from accidental or unintentional exposure. Eliminating medications properly is also important to prevent contamination of vegetation, aquatic life and water supplies.
The Food and Drug Administration recommends disposing of drugs by dropping them off at a take-back…
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By Jonathan Este, Senior International Affairs Editor, Associate Editor, The Conversation
In this extraordinary and deeply worrying year for international security, some weeks nevertheless stand out as particularly momentous.
Events in Yemen now threaten to escalate the war between the US, Israel and Iran into a regional conflagration. Houthi rebels have captured strategically important positions on the Red Sea coast that will give them the potential to shut down Saudi Arabia’s ability to export oil. And we’ve heard unverified claims from Saudi Arabia it shot down a Houthi drone that was targeting the holy city of Mecca, constituting a “red line” in that years-long conflict.
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By Daniel Borch Ibsen, Associate Professor in nutrition and cardiometabolic disease, Aarhus University
Christina C. Dahm, Professor of Epidemiology, Aarhus University
Michael Fridén, Postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Clinical Medicine and Steno Diabetes Centre, Aarhus University
We live in Denmark, which consistently ranks as one of the world’s healthiest countries. The modern Danish diet, however, may not be quite so world-leading – with many Danes consuming high levels of sugar, salt and convenience food.
Yet, go back a few generations and science…
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