By Andrew E. Busch, Professor and Associate Director, Institute of American Civics, University of Tennessee
Shifting counts have a boring cause: who votes by mail, and when those votes get counted. That doesn’t mean all fraud claims are false, though.
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By Kerri J. Malloy, Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies, San José State University
Native religions are tied to living landscapes, not points on a map. A scholar of Indigenous studies explains why reducing the protected area has profound religious and cultural consequences.
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By Krista Mehari, Associate Professor of Public Health, Michigan State University
Detroit police officers detained more than 180 minors during a fireworks celebration on June 22, 2026. Most offenses were curfew violations, and the event was generally peaceful.
Large gatherings of young people in public spaces coordinated through social media, known as “
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By Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
Anyone who has spent time on a college campus lately has probably heard laments from faculty about their students’ reading habits, or rather nonreading habits. Such complaints are more than an unfounded nostalgia for a bygone age.
Reading – not just any kind of reading, but reading long, complex, challenging books – is quickly vanishing from the American…
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By Aliasger K. Salem, Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Iowa
Beyond deprioritizing scientific merit, the Trump administration’s proposal also restricts researchers’ ability to share their findings and collaborate with each other.
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By Eszter Szekely, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, McGill University
Babywearing is an an ancient practice found across cultures for thousands of years. What is new is the growing scientific interest in its benefits.
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By Sarah Grant, PhD Student, Social and Cultural Analysis, Concordia University
Chris Hurl, Associate Professor, Dept of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University
Kevin Walby, Professor of Criminal Justice, University of Winnipeg
Grassroots activists and marginalized communities are ‘flipping the script’ on surveillance by watching, documenting and gathering information about powerful institutions such as ICE from below.
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By Amrita DasGupta, PhD Candidate, Department of Gender Studies, SOAS, University of London
With a population of more than 100 million, West Bengal is the fourth largest state in India. It has always been an important target for the ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), but despite the electoral success of Narendra Modi’s party across the whole country in recent years, West Bengal always bucked the trend.
Rather than buy into Modi’s Hindu nationalist vision, Bengali voters have traditionally been influenced by a strong sense of regional identity. Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool…
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By Phillip Byrne, Associate Professor School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences (SEALS), University of Wollongong
Aimee Silla, ARC DECRA Fellow School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences (SEALS), University of Wollongong
African grey foam-nest treefrogs (Chiromantis xerampelina) are common across the savannahs and dry forests of south-eastern Africa. Despite their unremarkable outward appearance, these small animals display some of the most intriguing reproductive behaviours known to science. Most notably, the females are highly polyandrous, constructing elaborate foam nests and mating with many different male partners in a breeding season.
Until the 1990s, evolutionary biologists thought that
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By Bruce Crossey, PhD Zoology, University of Pretoria
A year-long study found that impala in a South African game reserve need their own space in the dry season, away from tourists, to reduce their stress.
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