Censorship campaigns can have a way of backfiring – look no further than the fate of America's most prolific censor - Amy Werbel, Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT)

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A staircase in a small, decorative arts museum tells a harrowing story of terror, abuse and enslavement -- Susanna Ashton, Clemson University and Mollie Barnes, University of South Carolina Beaufort

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4 films that show how humans can fortify – or botch – their relationship with AI -- Murugan Anandarajan, Drexel University and Claire A. Simmers, St. Joseph's University

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Charlie Kirk and the making of an AI-generated martyr -- Art Jipson, University of Dayton

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Why you seriously need to stop trying to be funny at work -- Peter McGraw, University of Colorado Boulder; Adam Barsky, The University of Melbourne, and Caleb Warren, University of Arizona

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How Dorothea Tanning's 'Birthday' painting challenged male-dominated surrealism -- Sally Jane Brown, West Virginia University

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What the world can learn from Uruguay as the global housing crisis deepens -- Jennifer Duyne Barenstein, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and Daniela Sanjinés, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

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

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To spur the construction of affordable, resilient homes, the future is concrete -- Pablo Moyano Fernández, Washington University in St. Louis

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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)

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From Seattle to Atlanta, new social housing programs seek to make homes permanently affordable for a range of incomes -- Susanne Schindler, Harvard Kennedy School

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Squash has been played in Philly for 125 years − a sports psychologist explains why it's one of the city's best-kept secrets -- Eric Zillmer, Drexel University

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How bigotry crushed the dreams of an all-Black Little League team -- Chris Lamb, Indiana University

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Hulk Hogan and the unraveling of worker solidarity -- Brian Jansen, University of Maine

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Why is the object of golf to play as little golf as possible? -- Patrick Tutka, Purdue University

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40 years ago, the first AIDS movies forced Americans to confront a disease they didn't want to see -- Scott Malia, College of the Holy Cross

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'Jaws' and the two musical notes that changed Hollywood forever -- Jared Bahir Browsh, University of Colorado Boulder

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A Palestinian-Israeli film just won an Oscar − so why is it so hard to see? -- Drew Paul, University of Tennessee

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What Amazon MGM's creative control over the James Bond film franchise means for the future of 007 -- Colin Burnett, Washington University in St. Louis

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How Oscar-nominated screenwriters attempt to craft authentic dialogue, dialects and accents -- Chris C. Palmer, Kennesaw State University and Mitchell Olson, Kennesaw State University

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AI has passed the aesthetic Turing Test − and it's changing our relationship with art -- Tamilla Triantoro, Quinnipiac University

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A straight face, with a wink – the subtle humor of deadpan photography -- Emilia Mickevicius, University of Arizona

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A new book of Edward Gorey's drawings shows what's lost when the artist's sexuality is glossed over -- Elizabeth Wolfson, Washington University in St. Louis

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A portrait taken in North Philly in the 1980s reconnects poet with cherished memories of her own beloved father -- Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon, Temple University

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How Philly anarcho-punks blended music, noise and social justice in the 1990s and 2000s -- Edward Avery-Natale, Mercer County Community College

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Bruce Springsteen's 'Born to Run' still speaks to a nation vacillating between hope and despair -- Louis P. Masur, Rutgers University

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How bachata rose from Dominican Republic's brothels and shantytowns to become a global sensation -- Wilfredo José Burgos Matos, Lehman College, CUNY

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Sly Stone turned isolation into inspiration, forging a path for a generation of music-makers -- Jose Valentino Ruiz, University of Florida

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'The Eternal Queen of Asian Pop' sings one last encore from beyond the grave -- Xianda Huang, University of California, Los Angeles

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Latin American literature contains warnings for American universities that yield to Trump -- Charlotte Rogers, University of Virginia

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AI is making reading books feel obsolete – and students have a lot to lose -- Naomi S. Baron, American University

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Too many em dashes? Weird words like 'delves'? Spotting text written by ChatGPT is still more art than science -- Roger J. Kreuz, University of Memphis

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AI is advancing even faster than sci-fi visionaries like Neal Stephenson imagined -- Rizwan Virk, Arizona State University

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Aristotle would scoff at Mark Zuckerberg's suggestion that AI can solve the loneliness epidemic -- Gregg D. Caruso, Fairfield University

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Even as Jimmy Kimmel returns to the airwaves, TV networks remain more vulnerable to political pressure than ever before -- Sage Meredith Goodwin, Purdue University and Oscar Winberg, University of Turku

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Is there any hope for the internet? -- Aarushi Bhandari, Davidson College

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Like today's selfie-takers, Walt Whitman used photography to curate his image – but ended up more lost than found -- Trevin Corsiglia, Washington University in St. Louis

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How does a person become famous when they're just a kid? -- Matthew Pittman, University of Tennessee

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Pope Leo XIV's link to Haiti is part of a broader American story of race, citizenship and migration -- Chelsea Stieber, Tulane University

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With its executive order targeting the Smithsonian, the Trump administration opens up a new front in the history wars -- Jennifer Tucker, Wesleyan University

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200 years ago, France extorted Haiti in one of history's greatest heists – and Haitians want reparations -- Marlene L. Daut, Yale University

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Trump's vision for Air Force One will turn it from the 'Flying White House' to a 'palace in the sky' -- Janet Bednarek, University of Dayton

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The problem with Trump's takeover of the Kennedy Center isn't the possibility of 'Cats' -- Joanna Dee Das, Washington University in St. Louis

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We've been tracking the number of Americans who identify as transgender – soon, there will be no reliable way to measure them -- Jody L. Herman, University of California, Los Angeles and Andrew Ryan Flores, American University

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As Mexico's LGBTQ+ community battles for inclusion, two drag performers have become internet stars – with more than 2 million TikTok followers -- Francisco Tijerina, Washington University in St. Louis

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With Hooters on the verge of bankruptcy, a psychologist reflects on her time spent studying the servers who work there -- Dawn Szymanski, University of Tennessee

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Trans people affirmed their gender without medical help in medieval Europe − history shows how identity transcends medicine and law -- Sarah Barringer, University of Iowa

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Trump administration aims to slash funds that preserve the nation's rich architectural and cultural history -- Michael R. Allen, West Virginia University

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Could a bold anti-poverty experiment from the 1960s inspire a new era in housing justice? -- Deyanira Nevárez Martínez, Michigan State University

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How 'South Park' could help Democrats win back the young voters the party lost to Trump -- Nick Marx, Colorado State University

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Jimmy Swaggart's rise and fall shaped the landscape of American televangelism -- Diane Winston, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

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In pardoning reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, Trump taps into a sense of persecution felt by his conservative Christian base -- Diane Winston, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

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Is a 'friend-apist' what we really want from therapy? -- David E. Tolchinsky, Indiana University

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The child boss in 'Severance' reveals a devastating truth about work and child-rearing in the 21st century -- Anna Mae Duane, University of Connecticut

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Would you eat a grasshopper? In Oaxaca, it's been a tasty tradition for thousands of years -- Jeffrey H. Cohen, The Ohio State University

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Green gruel? Pea soup? What Westerners thought of matcha when they tried it for the first time -- Rebecca Corbett, University of Southern California

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Filipino sailors dock in Mexico ... and help invent tequila? -- Stephen Acabado, University of California, Los Angeles

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3 basic ingredients, a million possibilities: How small pizzerias succeed with uniqueness in an age of chain restaurants -- Paula de la Cruz-Fernández, University of Florida and Avi Ackerman, University of Florida

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I'm an MLK scholar – and I'll never be able to view King in the same light -- Jason Miller, North Carolina State University

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