
Poll finds bipartisan agreement on a key issue: Regulating AI
Are concerns about AI a bridge across the polarization divide?ZargonDesign/iStock via Getty ImagesIn the run-up to the vote in the U.S. Senate on President Donald Trump’s spending and tax bill, ...
Adam Eichen, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, UMass Amherst

When grief involves trauma − a social worker explains how to support survivors of the recent floods and other devastating losses
Rain falls over a makeshift memorial for flood victims along the Guadalupe River on July 13, 2025, in Kerrville, Texas.AP Photo/Eric GayThe July 4, 2025, floods in Kerr County, Texas, swept away child...
Liza Barros-Lane, Assistant Professor of Social Work, University of Houston-Downtown

Supreme Court news coverage has talked a lot more about politics ever since the 2016 death of Scalia and GOP blocking of Obama’s proposed nominee
Reporters used to treat the Supreme Court as a nonpolitical institution, but not anymore.Tetra Images/GettyThe U.S. Supreme Court has always ruled on politically controversial issues. From elections t...
Joshua Boston, Associate Professor of Political Science, Bowling Green State University
Children living near oil and gas wells face higher risk of rare leukemia, studies show
The U.S. has nearly 1 million oil and natural gas wells. Some, like the one here in Commerce City, C…
Research replication can determine how well science is working – but how do scientists replicate stu…
Some research teams work on replicating prior studies to assess the value of a body of work. AzmanL/…
Data can show if government programs work or not, but the Trump administration is suppressing the ne…
Do government programs work? It's impossible to find out with no data.Andranik Hakobyan/iStock via G…
Philly’s City Council turned down a new rental inspection program − studies show that might harm ten…
Tenants who complain to landlords about housing conditions can risk eviction.Photo Jeff Fusco/The Co…
College ‘general education’ requirements help prepare students for citizenship − but critics say it’…
Students learn about the arts and humanities, social sciences, and science and mathematics in genera…
Catholic clergy are speaking out on immigration − more than any other political issue except abortio…
Catholic bishops invited by Mark Seitz, center, the bishop of El Paso, Texas, lead a march in solida…
Why drones and AI can’t quickly find missing flood victims, yet
The landscape in the aftermath of a flood makes it challenging to spot victims.AP Photo/Gerald Herbe…