Summer camps remain a battleground over what it means to be American - Seth T. Kannarr, University of Tennessee and Derek H. Alderman, University of Tennessee

2 days ago

Techno tourism in Detroit – what do visitors owe the city that created the music? -- Carla Vecchiola, University of Michigan-Dearborn

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The art of literary translation exposes the limits of AI -- Krupa Shandilya, Amherst College

2 days ago

30 years after 'Reasonable Doubt,' Jay-Z's career embodies hip-hop's biggest contradictions -- Jabari M. Evans, University of South Carolina

3 days ago

Toy Story 5's 'Lilypad' is an indictment of the world that birthed the 'iPad Kid' -- Aarushi Bhandari, Davidson College

4 days ago

How LGBTQ employees at Kodak risked their careers to build a safer, more inclusive workplace -- Tamar Carroll, Rochester Institute of Technology

10 days ago

A rare bipartisan housing victory faces a bigger problem – Americans still can't afford housing -- Kirk McClure, University of Kansas and Alex Schwartz, The New School

30 days ago

Believe it or not, there was a time when the US government built beautiful homes for working-class Americans to deal with a housing shortage -- Eran Ben-Joseph, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

1 year ago

What if universal rental assistance were implemented to deal with the housing crisis? -- Alex Schwartz, The New School and Kirk McClure, University of Kansas

1 year ago

England's 'once in a generation' housing law takes effect as US housing legislation sits in congressional purgatory -- Allyson Gold, Wake Forest University

1 month ago

What the world can learn from Uruguay as the global housing crisis deepens -- Jennifer Duyne Barenstein, ETH Zurich and Daniela Sanjinés, ETH Zurich

27 days ago

Seat the rich! World Cup ticket inflation reflects widening gap between haves and have-nots -- Stefan Szymanski, University of Michigan

18 days ago

For Iran's diaspora, a tough World Cup call: To support the national team or protest – or both? -- Shirvin Zeinalzadeh, Arizona State University

13 days ago

Bingles, knuckleballs and 'Beer Barrel Polka' – hundreds of forgotten works showcase the eclectic world of baseball scholarship -- Tom Reinsfelder, Penn State

16 days ago

Haiti at the World Cup is more than an underdog tale – it is the story of global migration -- Laurent Dubois, University of Virginia

18 days ago

¡Ándale! ¡Arriba! Speedy Gonzales set to make his triumphant return to the silver screen -- Jared Bahir Browsh, University of Colorado Boulder

2 months ago

'Hamnet' is making audiences break down in tears – and upending beliefs about male grief -- Jeanette Tran, Drake University

3 months ago

As the Oscars approach, Hollywood grapples with AI's growing influence on filmmaking -- Holly Willis, University of Southern California

3 months ago

Do animals have a future on Hollywood sets? -- Cynthia Chris, City University of New York

4 months ago

How Dracula became a red-hot lover -- Stanley Stepanic, University of Virginia

4 months ago

AI-generated fantasies of US intervention reveal how desperation has narrowed Cuba's political horizons -- Michael J. Bustamante, University of Miami

1 month ago

Sora's downfall signals broader problems with AI's creative utility -- Ahmed Elgammal, Rutgers University

1 month ago

Michelangelo hated painting the Sistine Chapel – and never aspired to be a painter to begin with -- Anna Swartwood House, University of South Carolina

4 months ago

AI-induced cultural stagnation is no longer speculation − it's already happening -- Ahmed Elgammal, Rutgers University

4 months ago

Taylor Swift trademarking her voice and likeness points to a new legal frontier in combating AI deepfakes -- Daryl Lim, Penn State

26 days ago

Antonia Bembo fled Venice to escape her abusive husband – over three centuries later, her opera finally takes the stage -- Claire Fontijn, Wellesley College

1 month ago

After the execution of James G. Broadnax in Texas, questions persist over use of rap lyrics as evidence -- A.D. Carson, University of Virginia

1 month ago

Motown's Black women songwriters and producers were the invisible architects behind the pop music juggernaut -- Margena A. Christian, University of Illinois Chicago

1 month ago

Clergy protests against ICE turned to a classic – and powerful – American playlist -- David W. Stowe, Michigan State University

4 months ago

DIY zines are helping queer communities tell their own stories and craft their own culture -- Rachel Schneider, Missouri University of Science and Technology

10 days ago

Despite all the likes, literallys and dropped g's, English isn't decaying before our eyes -- Valerie M. Fridland, University of Nevada, Reno

2 months ago

Artemis II moonshot reflects a spacefaring vision present in Jules Verne's 19th-century novel -- Anastasia Klimchynskaya, Illinois Wesleyan University

2 months ago

Thousands of AI-written, edited or 'polished' books are being sold – an eerie echo of Orwell's 'novel-writing machines' -- Laura Beers, American University

2 months ago

If using ChatGPT is cheating, what about ghostwriting? The old debate behind a new panic -- Emily Hodgson Anderson, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

3 months ago

TMZ descends on Washington in a test of whether tabloid tactics can serve the public interest -- Angelica Kalika, University of Colorado Boulder

25 days ago

As goes CBS Radio News, so goes the idea that news media should serve the public interest -- Matthew Jordan, Penn State

1 month ago

The two lives of Chuck Norris -- Ben Pettis, University of Richmond

2 months ago

As Jeff Bezos dismantles The Washington Post, 5 regional papers chart a course for survival -- Dan Kennedy, Northeastern University

4 months ago

FIFA's Haiti jersey ban echoes the long campaign to discredit and downplay the Haitian Revolution -- Julia Gaffield, William & Mary

13 days ago

Why are buttons and zippers on different sides of men's and women's clothes? -- JuYoung Lee, Mississippi State University and Caroline Kobia, Mississippi State University

1 month ago

As renaissance fairs become big business, can they retain their counterculture roots? -- Katrina Stack, University of Tennessee and Reagan Yessler, Pellissippi State Community College

2 months ago

The costume maker who convinced Hersheypark to embrace candy mascots and 'chocolatize' their old-timey theme park -- John Haddad, Penn State

2 months ago

The inspiring and tragic story of Mabel Stark, America's most famous female tiger trainer -- Alessandro Meregaglia, Boise State University

3 months ago

Who was the first transgender person? -- Ky Merkley, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Nick Winters, Northwestern University

13 days ago

How Amazon workers made glamour a form of protest -- Eileen G'Sell, Washington University in St. Louis

19 days ago

Looksmaxxing isn't just a TikTok trend – it often reflects severe body image issues in teen boys and young men -- Jordyn Tovey, University of Michigan

1 month ago

What 'gooning' reveals about intimacy in a world cordoned off by screens -- Jennifer Pollitt, Temple University

3 months ago

Lower East Side street named for 'King of Comics' Jack Kirby, a nod to one of the countless kids of immigrants who shaped the genre -- Miriam Eve Mora, University of Michigan

1 month ago

In his efforts to remake federal architecture, Trump repudiates the 'republican ideals' that have long informed it -- Kevin D. Murphy, Vanderbilt University

2 months ago

5 reasons Stephen Colbert is one of the most important satirists in American history -- Sophia A. McClennen, Penn State

1 month ago

TikTok's popular microdramas shrink TV into bite-sized chunks -- Jessica Maddox, University of Georgia and Krysten Stein, University of Cincinnati

1 month ago

HBO's 'The Pitt' nails how hospital cyberattacks create chaos, endanger patients and disrupt critical care -- Jeffrey Tully, University of California, San Diego and Christian Dameff, University of California, San Diego

3 months ago

Why 'The West Wing' went from a bipartisan hit to a polarized streaming comfort watch over 2 decades, reflecting profound shifts in media and politics -- Karrin Vasby Anderson, Colorado State University and Nick Marx, Colorado State University

4 months ago

Life isn't all diamonds – money and fame don't shield the many 'Real Housewives' facing criminal charges -- C. Clare Strange, Drexel University

4 months ago

Why fatherhood matters more than ever before -- Darby Saxbe, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

11 days ago

What we misunderstand about absent fathers -- Matthew Alemu, University of Michigan; Northeastern University

12 days ago

Older Americans are often compelled to keep working – and then criticized for not stepping aside -- Lee Ann Rawlins Williams, University of North Dakota

1 month ago

Juneteenth's real meaning is written on the plates of smoked meats, potato salad and watermelon -- Bobby J. Smith II, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

9 days ago

Butter or margarine? A food scientist describes their subtle chemical deviations and how they can affect your baked goods -- Rosemary Trout, Drexel University

18 days ago

What is black garlic? How heat and humidity turn a pungent ingredient mild and slightly sweet -- Mavra Javed, Michigan State University

2 months ago

Philadelphia was once a sweet spot for chocolatiers and other candymakers who made iconic treats for Valentine's Day and other holidays -- Jared Bahir Browsh, University of Colorado Boulder

4 months ago

Why does Turkey want other countries to start spelling its name 'Türkiye'? -- Phillip M. Carter, Florida International University

2 days ago