Chinese barges and Taiwan Strait drills are about global power projection − not just a potential invasion
A Mulberry Harbour for the 21st century.Image from video posted on Weibo via Chinese state media.Is China intent on a D-Day style invasion of Taiwan?Certainly that has been the tone of some of the rep...
Colin Flint, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Utah State University
23andMe is potentially selling more than just genetic data – the personal survey info it collected is just as much a privacy problem
For companies like 23andMe, consumers are as much the product as the DNA test kits.Veronika Oliinyk/iStock via Getty Images PlusAs soon as the genetic testing company 23andMe filed for bankruptcy on M...
Kayte Spector-Bagdady, Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan
Feeling FOMO for something that’s not even fun? It’s not the event you’re missing, it’s the bonding
They had so much fun without me.Milko/E+ via Getty ImagesImagine you’ve planned the trip of a lifetime for your animal-loving family: a cruise to Antarctica with the unique opportunity to view p...
Jacqueline Rifkin, Assistant Professor of Marketing, Cornell University
Research shows that a majority of Christian religious leaders accept the reality of climate change b…
A multi-faith assembly of religious leaders and lay people in Manhattan in 2023 protest investments …
In Israel, calls for genocide have migrated from the margins to the mainstream
A Palestinian woman cries while sitting on the rubble of her home, which was destroyed in an Israeli…
With its executive order targeting the Smithsonian, the Trump administration opens up a new front in…
A portrait of President Donald Trump in the 'America’s Presidents' exhibition at the Smithsoni…
Christian Zionism hasn’t always been a conservative evangelical creed – churches’ views of Israel ha…
Participants in a 'United for Israel' march, led by The Pursuit NW Christian Church, stand on the Un…
Schools and communities can help children bounce back after distressing disasters like the LA wildfi…
The 2025 Los Angeles wildfires reduced more than 15,000 structures to ash in a matter of days. Among…
Why a presidential term limit got written into the Constitution – the story of the 22nd Amendment
No president other than Franklin D. Roosevelt has held office for more than two terms. Walter Lepor…
America the secular? What a changing religious landscape means for US politics
Conventional wisdom about nonreligious Americans' voting misses some important distinctions.Sarah Ri…