By Jennifer D. Kobrin, Assistant Professor of Adult and Continuing Education, University of Tennessee
An adult can read at a fifth grade level and still be a productive employee or caregiver who navigates practical life with competence.
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By Pranav Padmanabhan, Professional Research Assistant, University of Colorado Anschutz
Katherine LeMasters, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado Boulder
Paul Christine, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz
The City Council of Pueblo, Colorado, voted to ban the distribution of syringes through syringe service programs starting in May 2024.
Also called needle exchanges, these programs are run by community organizations that provide healthcare services. The impetus for the ban, as council members noted, was syringe litter in public spaces.
Three weeks after the…
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By Anne Pisor, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Demography, Penn State
Bonface Osindi, Data Scientist in the College of Veterinary Medicine, Global Health-Kenya, Washington State University
If being outside in the heat for even a few minutes felt miserable this summer, imagine what it’s like for herders who are always out walking with their livestock and rarely get a break.
“We have never experienced such hot days,” a woman herder in northern Kenya told our research team in 2024. “It is difficult to [do things] outside [with] the high temperatures.”
Her experience is echoed by herders in both the U.S. and Kenya, where we study health and climate. Our team’s recent data from Kenya suggests…
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By Michael A. Robinson, Research Scientist in Atmospheric Chemistry, University of Colorado Boulder
As wildfire smoke plumes travel thousands of miles, sunlight and atmospheric chemistry bleach their color, strip away their campfire aroma and add them to the mix of urban smog.
Smoky skies plagued the East Coast and Midwest again in summer 2026, as wildfires hundreds of miles away forced people to cancel…
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By Anne Garland Mahler, Professor and Director of Latin American Studies Program, University of Virginia
The State Department views a 1960s-era internationalist movement based in Havana as a Cuban communist plot to destroy America. The truth was far more nuanced.
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By Erin Victor, Postdoctoral Researcher in Sustainability, University of Maine
Extended producer responsibility policies are gaining steam in the US, but what they entail can differ widely from state to state.
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By Jo Mackiewicz, Professor of Rhetoric and Professional Communication, Iowa State University
Jordan Smith, Assistant Professor of English, University of Northern Colorado
Terms that are direct analogs to sexual intercourse are widely used to describe connector ends, but the language is evolving away from those problematic words.
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By Matthew N. Hannah, Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Politics and Culture, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ideas from QAnon’s conspiracy theory have appeared on government social media sites during Trump’s second term and continue to divide America amid social and economic crises.
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By K. Chad Clay, Director, Center for the Study of Global Issues (GLOBIS); Associate Professor of International Affairs, University of Georgia
New data from a global rights-tracking project shows the country had large declines in 2025 on 8 of the 9 civil and political rights it measures.
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By Heena Dave, PhD Candidate, Climate Change Education, University of Stirling
For too long, climate communication has relied on the belief that if we stick with the science and communicate the evidence, action will follow. Scientific knowledge gives us the foundations for understanding possible futures, while speculation allows us to explore them. But poetry can bring that speculation to life, giving us a language to express what living through…
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