Syndicated

By Reya Farber, Assistant Professor of Sociology, William & Mary While transgender people might be more culturally recognized in the U.S. than ever, visibility is not the same as justice. Transgender is an umbrella category that emerged in the U.S. in the 1990s...

By Julian C. Chambliss, Professor of English, Michigan State University As someone who teaches and writes about Afrofuturism, I eagerly awaited the release of “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” I was particularly excited about the introduction of Namor and the hidden...

By Jin Lee, Research Fellow, Curtin University; and Crystal Abidin, Associate Professor & ARC DECRA Fellow, Internet Studies, Curtin University Anyone who has scrolled through YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram would not be surprised to glance upon calming minimalist...

By Thomas E. Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press, Harvard Kennedy School Now that he is in the 2024 presidential race, the media circus that is Donald Trump is returning for a new season. Trump is still newsworthy. He has been weakened by his...

By Filippo Menczer, Professor of Informatics and Computer Science, Indiana University Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter on October 27, 2022 has triggered renewed debate about what it means for the future of the social media platform, which plays an important role in...

New York has Broadway. California has movie stars you will only see in Hollywood, Maine is known for its lobster, and Iowa has corn. Here in Wisconsin, we are known for a lot of products, but predominately beer. It is the state’s history with the beer industry...

Christians in the United States may become a minority group by 2070 if recent trends continue, according to data released by the Pew Research Center. To predict how the American religious landscape will change over the next 50 years, the center posed several...

The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority on October 31 questioned the legality of race-conscious policies in college admissions, as the justices weighed two cases that could upend the admissions process many colleges use to try to boost diversity on campus. At...

By Natasha Warikoo, Lenore Stern Professor in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Tufts University The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments in two lawsuits on October 31, 2022, brought by a group that opposes affirmative action in college admissions. The newly...

By Keith Raymond Harris, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Philosophy, Ruhr University Bochum There is an open question among pundits and researchers: Do more Americans believe in conspiracy theories now than ever before? But as a scholar of conspiracy theories and...

By Amel Ahmed, Associate Professor of Political Science, UMass Amherst When people think about making elections secure, they often think about voting machines, cybersecurity and mechanical threats. They do not think about people. Since 2016, when there was evidence of...

By Richard Forno, Principal Lecturer in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County A warning about the threat of political violence before the 2022 midterm elections was issued to state and local law enforcement officials by...