In 'NAZA,' Israeli whistleblowers' revelations about civilian deaths in Gaza reflect a longer history of Palestinian isolation - Drew Paul, University of Tennessee

1 day ago

Trump has gotten rid of many of the checks and balances that could stop him from demolishing the Kennedy Center -- E. Andrew Taylor, American University

1 day ago

How 'To Catch a Predator' indulged America's appetite for humiliation and punishment -- Daniel LaChance, Emory University and Paul Kaplan, San Diego State University

1 day ago

The story of Little Italy's Feast of San Gennaro is the story of how Italian immigrants became American -- Clare Whitton, University of Oxford

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Annie Dillard brought poetry into prose, pioneering a mystical form of creative nonfiction that critics both admired and misunderstood -- Amy Cannon, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

8 days ago

'The Uprising' shows how medieval people weren't so obedient after all -- Joëlle Rollo-Koster, University of Rhode Island

9 days ago

Taxpayers don't want to pay for new NFL stadiums – so why did politicians approve billions in subsidies to fund six new ones? -- J.C. Bradbury, Kennesaw State University

18 days ago

The Women's Professional Baseball League is betting that women's baseball has a future in the US -- Callie Maddox, Miami University

16 days ago

The NFL sold out its Australia game in 30 minutes – but will the sport make its mark Down Under? -- Adam Cohen, University of Technology Sydney

16 days ago

Professional gaming is brutal on the body – inside the growing field of treating esports injuries -- Erica D. Henn, Temple University

29 days ago

Why Christopher Nolan turned Circe into a vindictive witch -- Bailey Sincox, Binghamton University, State University of New York

1 month ago

'The Odyssey' is a striking portrait of the psychological wounds that can emerge when people violate their deepest values -- Amy S. Badura-Brack, Creighton University

1 month ago

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

3 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

6 months ago

'Fountain' might make you laugh or scowl but asks important questions – a Philly art historian explains why Marcel Duchamp's iconic 1917 sculpture still provokes -- Matthew Palczynski, Temple University

17 days ago

Before the infinity nets, there was 'The Pacific Ocean' – what origin stories focusing on Yayoi Kusama's mental illness miss about her art -- Audrey Storm, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

23 days ago

Why Gen Z is falling in love with film photography -- Rotem Rozental, University of Southern California

2 months ago

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

4 months ago

A rare bipartisan housing bill just became law – but Americans will still struggle with affordability -- Kirk McClure, University of Kansas and Alex Schwartz, The New School

2 months 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

4 months ago

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

3 months ago

Dolly Parton took control of her career by making men the butt of the joke -- Stephanie Vander Wel, University at Buffalo

25 days ago

What I found when I scanned the brains of kids creating tunes on the piano -- Karen Barrett, University of California, San Francisco

1 month ago

200 years after his birth, controversial composer Stephen Foster still sings to America's contradictions -- Christopher Lynch, University of Pittsburgh

2 months ago

How a box set from 1964 attempted to capture the sweep of American music from the colonial era to the counterculture -- Ted Olson, East Tennessee State University

2 months ago

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

3 months ago

Just as the world appears to be losing its appetite for books, William T. Vollmann pens a 3,000-page novel -- Christopher Coffman, Boston University

29 days ago

How libraries in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and other Pennsylvania communities evolved from subscription clubs to vital public institutions -- Bernadette A. Lear, Penn State

9 days ago

Jason Arday and the new politics of plagiarism -- Roger J. Kreuz, University of Memphis

1 month ago

The importance of teaching students what AI can't do -- Billy J. Stratton, University of Denver

1 month ago

What the panic over Gen Z's reading habits gets wrong -- Kathi Inman Berens, Portland State University and Rachel Noorda, Portland State University

1 month ago

You can't shield kids from scary news – here's what 'Sesame Street' and other children's shows did after 9/11 -- Julie Dobrow, Tufts University

17 days ago

Stars and Stripes shows how government-funded journalism can work – if it's free to report the truth -- Cindy Elmore, East Carolina University

22 days ago

They're content creators with thousands of adoring fans – so why do they feel so terrible? -- Julianna Pillemer, New York University

1 month ago

As AI reshapes newsrooms, leading media outlets are charting different paths for its use -- Erik P. Bucy, Texas Tech University and Milad Jalalian Ebrahimi, Texas Tech University

1 month ago

Trump's slapdash Reflecting Pool renovations stand in stark contrast to years of deliberation and engineering ingenuity that went into its creation -- Jennifer Tucker, Wesleyan University

1 month ago

As Route 66 turns 100, what is it that we're actually celebrating? -- Daniel Milowski, Arizona State University

2 months ago

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

3 months 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

4 months 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

5 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

3 months 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

4 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

4 months ago

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

5 months ago

Philadelphia's rich history of children's television includes 'Double Dare' and a golden age of local hosts like Chief Halftown and Captain Noah -- Jared Bahir Browsh, University of Colorado Boulder

2 months ago

'Heartstopper' is helping LGBTQ+ fans find hope and community across time and space -- Annaliese Grant, University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Carrie Grant, Towson University

2 months ago

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

4 months ago

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

4 months 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

6 months ago

Dog parks are an antidote to the isolation and divisions that social media can fuel -- Kevin B. Johnson, University of Pennsylvania

22 days ago

The real reason many Americans are cutting ties with their parents and siblings -- Rin Reczek, The Ohio State University

30 days ago

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

3 months ago

What a western Pennsylvania '90s-style Pizza Hut reveals about nostalgia -- Jeff Galak, Carnegie Mellon University

1 month ago

The rise of Yemeni coffeehouses in Dearborn and beyond -- Sally Howell, University of Michigan-Dearborn

2 months ago

Starbucks' big marketing blunder in South Korea shows how cultural blind spots can put global brands in a bind -- Karen Stollznow, University of Colorado Boulder; Griffith University

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

3 months ago

Why has Halloween become so popular among adults? -- Linus Owens, Middlebury College

1 day ago