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Young Latinos – and their commitment to social justice – are shaping the future of the Catholic Church -- Hosffman Ospino, Boston College and Timothy Matovina, University of Notre Dame

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I was teaching virtue and knowledge while lying on the side - Katherine Moses, University of Mississippi

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Congress still has ways to throttle back Trump's war with Iran – and to ask questions -- SoRelle Wyckoff Gaynor, University of Virginia and Charlie Hunt, Boise State University

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ICE buys $87M warehouse in Pennsylvania − can local officials block a detention facility? -- Aaron Walayat, University of Dayton

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

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Trump's war against Iran is uniquely unpopular among US military actions of the past century -- Charles Walldorf, Wake Forest University

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US is less prone to oil price shocks than in past decades -- Amy Myers Jaffe, New York University; Tufts University

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War in Middle East brings uncertainty and higher energy costs to already weakening US economy -- Michael Klein, Tufts University

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Iran war: 4 big questions that help clarify the future of the Middle East -- David Mednicoff, UMass Amherst

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Arming a Kurdish insurgency would be a risky endeavor – for both the US and Iran's minority Kurds -- John Calabrese, American University

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Iran's missile mayhem show the limits of Middle East defences -- Michael J. Armstrong, Brock University

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Iran will respond to US-Israeli strikes as existential threats to the regime – because they are -- Javed Ali, University of Michigan

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The US is using repurposed Iranian drone technology to attack Iran – a military expert explains why -- Arun Dawson, King's College London

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The Gulf's delicate balancing act between the US and Iran is now in flames - Gemma Ware, The Conversation - Listen

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Today's obsession with authenticity isn't new – being true to yourself has troubled philosophers for centuries -- Kenneth Andrew Andres Leonardo, Hamilton College

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'Learning to be humble meant taming my need to stand out from the group' – a humility scholar explains how he became more grounded -- Barret Michalec, Arizona State University

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I'm a philosopher who tries to see the best in others – but I know there are limits -- Mark Schroeder, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

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Meekness isn't weakness – once considered positive, it's one of the 'undersung virtues' that deserve defense today -- Timothy J. Pawl, University of St. Thomas

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How business students learn to make ethical decisions by studying a soup kitchen in one of America's toughest neighborhoods -- Tim Swift, St. Joseph's University

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Alaska's glacial lakes are expanding, increasing the risk of destructive outburst floods -- Dan McGrath, Colorado State University

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Making sense of a chaotic planet: How understanding weather and climate risks depends on supercomputers like NCAR's -- Antonios Mamalakis, University of Virginia

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Warming winters are disrupting the hidden world of fungi – the result can shift mountain grasslands to scrub -- Stephanie Kivlin, University of Tennessee; Aimee Classen, University of Michigan, and Lara A. Souza, University of Oklahoma

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Sixth year of drought in Texas and Oklahoma leaves ranchers facing wildfires and bracing for another tough year -- Joel Lisonbee, University of Colorado Boulder and William Baule, Texas A&M University

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Why ICE's body camera policies make the videos unlikely to improve accountability and transparency -- Stephanie Lessing, UMass Boston

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When ICE sweeps a community, public health pays a price – and recovery will likely take years -- Nicole L. Novak, University of Iowa and William D. Lopez, University of Michigan

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How the 9/11 terrorist attacks shaped ICE's immigration strategy -- Pawan Dhingra, Amherst College

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A terrorism label that comes before the facts can turn 'domestic terrorism' into a useless designation -- Brian O'Neill, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Why the 'Streets of Minneapolis' have echoed with public support – unlike the campus of Kent State in 1970 -- Gregory P. Magarian, Washington University in St. Louis

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Venezuela's fragile environment faces rising risks as US pushes for oil and critical minerals and illegal gold mining spreads -- Antonio Machado Allison, Wesleyan University

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Trump offered a restrictive deal to universities that almost all rejected – but the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education may not be entirely dead -- Fred L. Pincus, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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Congress once fought to limit a president's war powers − more than 50 years later, its successors are less willing to assert their authority -- Sarah Burns, Rochester Institute of Technology; Institute for Humane Studies

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Kansas revoked transgender people's IDs overnight – researchers anticipate cascading health and social consequences -- Jae A. Puckett, Michigan State University; L. Zachary DuBois, University of Oregon, and Noelle Martin, Michigan State University

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Supreme Court rules against Trump's emergency tariffs – but leaves key questions unanswered -- Kent Jones, Babson College

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China's muted response over war in Iran reflects Beijing's delicate calculus as a concerned onlooker -- John Calabrese, American University

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Hezbollah − degraded, weakened but not yet disarmed − destabilizes Lebanon once again -- Mireille Rebeiz, Dickinson College

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Far from random, China's global port network is clustering near the world's riskiest trade routes -- Dylan Spencer, Georgia Southern University; Gohar Petrossian, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Stephen Pires, Florida International University

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Astrophysicists trace the origin of valuable metals in space, from colliding stars to merging galaxies -- Simone Dichiara, Penn State and Eleonora Troja, University of Rome Tor Vergata

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What does the appendix do? Biologists explain the complicated evolution of this inconvenient organ -- Phil Starks, Tufts University and Lilia Goncharova, Tufts University

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Mobile clinics offer a practical way to improve health care access in maternity care deserts -- Adetola F. Louis-Jacques, University of Florida; Arielle Ayotte, University of Florida, and Michelle Nall, University of Florida

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Trauma patients recover faster when medical teams know each other well, new study finds -- Linda Argote, Carnegie Mellon University and Jeremy M. Kahn, University of Pittsburgh

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Indie coffee shops are meant to counter corporate behemoths like Starbucks – so why do they all look the same? -- Conrad Kickert, University at Buffalo; Jeffrey Parker, University of New Orleans, and Kelly Gregg, University at Buffalo

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US military leans into AI for attack on Iran, but the tech doesn't lessen the need for human judgment in war -- Jon R. Lindsay, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Generative AI can play a role uplifting family and community in early childhood education -- Andres Bustamante, University of California, Irvine and Aria Gastón-Panthaki, University of California, Irvine

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AI doesn't 'see' the way that you do, and that could be a problem when it categorizes objects and scenes -- Arryn Robbins, University of Richmond; Eben W. Daggett, New Mexico State University, and Michael Hout, New Mexico State University

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Researchers are combining drones and AI to make removing land mines faster and safer -- Sagar Lekhak, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Universities survived Trump's 2025 funding freeze, but the money still isn't flowing to researchers -- Brendan Cantwell, Michigan State University

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Federal benefits cuts are looming – here's how Colorado is trying to protect families with children -- Stephen Roll, Washington University in St. Louis; Jenn Finders, Colorado State University, and Leah Hamilton, Appalachian State University

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A successful USDA program that has supported more than 533,000 affordable rental homes in rural America is getting phased out -- Brian Y. An, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Higher buprenorphine doses help patients stay in opioid use disorder treatment, new study finds -- Rachel French, University of Pennsylvania

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What James Madison can teach Americans about religious freedom today -- Corey D. B. Walker, Wake Forest University

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GLP-1 drugs may fight addiction across every major substance, according to a study of 600,000 people -- Ziyad Al-Aly, Washington University in St. Louis

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Notions of 'Christendom' often miss the mark – medieval Europe's ideas about faith and power were not so simple -- Brett Whalen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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