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Tennis is set for a 'Battle of the Sexes' sequel – with no movement behind it - Jaime Schultz, Penn State; Kyle R. King, Penn State; Molly McCreedy, Penn State, and Sydney Johnson-Aguirre, Penn State

10 days ago

Medieval peasants probably enjoyed their holiday festivities more than you do -- Bobbi Sutherland, University of Dayton

10 days ago

2025'S WORDS OF THE YEAR REFLECT A YEAR OF DIGITAL DISILLUSIONMENT -- Roger J. Kreuz, University of Memphis

21 days ago

The dystopian Pottersville in 'It's a Wonderful Life' is starting to feel less like fiction -- Nora Gilbert, University of North Texas

18 days ago

Why are some Black conservatives drawn to Nick Fuentes? -- George Michael, Westfield State University

10 days ago

Large trunks discovered in a basement offer a window into the lives and struggles of early Filipino migrants -- Sam Vong, Smithsonian Institution

10 days ago

America's teachers are being priced out of their communities − these cities are building subsidized housing to lure them back -- Jeff Kruth, Miami University and Tammy Schwartz, Miami University

1 month 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

6 months ago

To spur the construction of affordable, resilient homes, the future is concrete -- Pablo Moyano Fernández, Washington University in St. Louis

6 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)

6 months ago

What the world can learn from Uruguay as the global housing crisis deepens -- Jennifer Duyne Barenstein, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and Daniela Sanjinés, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

4 months ago

From FIFA to the LA Clippers, carbon offset scandals are exposing the gap between sports teams' green promises and reality -- Brian P. McCullough, University of Michigan and Edward Carrington, University of Michigan

18 days ago

George Plimpton's 1966 nonfiction classic 'Paper Lion' revealed the bruising truths of Detroit Lions training camp -- Stephen Siff, Miami University

1 month ago

How the explosion of prop betting threatens the integrity of pro sports -- John Affleck, Penn State

1 month ago

Baseball returns to a Japanese American detention camp after a historic ball field was restored -- Susan H. Kamei, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

2 months ago

Whether Netflix or Paramount buys Warner Bros., entertainment oligopolies are back – bigger and more anticompetitive than ever -- Matthew Jordan, Penn State

11 days ago

The law meets its limits – what 'Nuremberg' reveals about guilt, evil and the quest for global justice -- B.B. Blaber, Grinnell College

21 days ago

4 films that show how humans can fortify – or botch – their relationship with AI -- Murugan Anandarajan, Drexel University and Claire A. Simmers, St. Joseph's University

3 months ago

40 years ago, the first AIDS movies forced Americans to confront a disease they didn't want to see -- Scott Malia, College of the Holy Cross

3 months ago

'Jaws' and the two musical notes that changed Hollywood forever -- Jared Bahir Browsh, University of Colorado Boulder

6 months ago

Why two tiny mountain peaks became one of the internet's most famous images -- Christopher Schaberg, Washington University in St. Louis

1 month ago

You've just stolen a priceless artifact – what happens next? -- Leila Amineddoleh, New York University

2 months ago

Surrealism is better known for its strangeness than the radical politics and revolutionary ambitions of its creators -- Tom McDonough, Binghamton University, State University of New York

2 months ago

How Dorothea Tanning's 'Birthday' painting challenged male-dominated surrealism -- Sally Jane Brown, West Virginia University

3 months ago

The marketing genius of Spotify Wrapped -- Ishani Banerji, Clemson University

26 days ago

Tired of the same old Christmas songs? So were these countercultural carolers -- Florian Walch, West Virginia University

24 days ago

The real reason conservatives are furious about Bad Bunny's forthcoming Super Bowl performance -- Ediberto Román, Florida International University and Ernesto Sagás, Colorado State University

2 months ago

Sabrina Carpenter's and Chappell Roan's sexy pop hits have roots in the bedroom ballads of Teddy Pendergrass and Philly soul -- Jared Bahir Browsh, University of Colorado Boulder

18 days ago

How Philly anarcho-punks blended music, noise and social justice in the 1990s and 2000s -- Edward Avery-Natale, Mercer County Community College

3 months ago

More than half of new articles on the internet are being written by AI – is human writing headed for extinction? -- Francesco Agnellini, Binghamton University, State University of New York

28 days ago

Writing builds resilience by changing your brain, helping you face everyday challenges -- Emily Ronay Johnston, University of California, Merced

1 month ago

Signatures meant more in Mesopotamia than they do now − what cylinder seals say about ancient and modern life -- Serdar Yalçin, Macalester College

1 month ago

What's the difference between ghosts and demons? Books, folklore and history reflect society's supernatural beliefs -- Penelope Geng, Macalester College

2 months ago

Too many em dashes? Weird words like 'delves'? Spotting text written by ChatGPT is still more art than science -- Roger J. Kreuz, University of Memphis

1 month ago

Netflix-Warner deal would drive streaming market further down the road of 'Big 3' domination -- David R. King, Florida State University

20 days ago

Watchdog journalism's future may lie in the work of independent reporters like Pablo Torre -- Alex Volonte, University of Florida

2 months ago

Charlie Kirk and the making of an AI-generated martyr -- Art Jipson, University of Dayton

3 months ago

Even as Jimmy Kimmel returns to the airwaves, TV networks remain more vulnerable to political pressure than ever before -- Sage Meredith Goodwin, Purdue University and Oscar Winberg, University of Turku

3 months ago

A white poet and a Sioux doctor fell in love after Wounded Knee – racism and sexism would drive them apart -- Julie Dobrow, Tufts University

2 months ago

Pharaohs in Dixieland – how 19th-century America reimagined Egypt to justify racism and slavery -- Charles Vanthournout, Université de Lorraine

2 months ago

The Erie Canal: How a 'big ditch' transformed America's economy, culture and even religion -- Matthew Smith, Miami University

2 months ago

A staircase in a small, decorative arts museum tells a harrowing story of terror, abuse and enslavement -- Susanna Ashton, Clemson University and Mollie Barnes, University of South Carolina Beaufort

2 months ago

Censorship campaigns can have a way of backfiring – look no further than the fate of America's most prolific censor -- Amy Werbel, Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT)

2 months ago

'My gender is like an empty lot' − the people who reject man, woman and any other gender label -- Canton Winer, Northern Illinois University

1 month ago

Why are women's shoes so pointy? A fashion expert on impractical but stylish footwear -- Michael Watson, University of South Carolina

2 months ago

We've been tracking the number of Americans who identify as transgender – soon, there will be no reliable way to measure them -- Jody L. Herman, University of California, Los Angeles and Andrew Ryan Flores, American University

4 months ago

As Mexico's LGBTQ+ community battles for inclusion, two drag performers have become internet stars – with more than 2 million TikTok followers -- Francisco Tijerina, Washington University in St. Louis

5 months ago

Are sanctuary policing policies no more than a public relations facade? -- Nick Lehr, The Conversation

17 days ago

New York's wealthy warn of a tax exodus after Mamdani's win – but the data says otherwise -- Cristobal Young, Cornell University

25 days ago

The rise of the autistic detective – why neurodivergent minds are at the heart of modern mysteries -- Soohyun Cho, Michigan State University

1 month ago

How mobsters' own words brought down Philly's mafia − a veteran crime reporter has the story behind the end of the 'Mob War' -- George Anastasia, Rowan University

2 months ago

How 'South Park' could help Democrats win back the young voters the party lost to Trump -- Nick Marx, Colorado State University

3 months ago

Jimmy Swaggart's rise and fall shaped the landscape of American televangelism -- Diane Winston, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

5 months ago

In pardoning reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, Trump taps into a sense of persecution felt by his conservative Christian base -- Diane Winston, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

6 months ago

A culinary educator and local dining expert breaks down Michelin's debut Philly list − and gives zero stars to the inspectors -- Jonathan Deutsch, Drexel University

24 days ago

How Hershey's chocolate survived an attack from Mars − and adopted a business strategy alien to its founder -- John Haddad, Penn State

1 month ago

Would you eat a grasshopper? In Oaxaca, it's been a tasty tradition for thousands of years -- Jeffrey H. Cohen, The Ohio State University

3 months ago

Green gruel? Pea soup? What Westerners thought of matcha when they tried it for the first time -- Rebecca Corbett, University of Southern California

3 months ago

The Christmas tree is a tradition older than Christmas -- Troy Bickham, Texas A&M University

4 days ago

The magnificent history of the maligned and misunderstood fruitcake -- Jeffrey Miller, Colorado State University

1 day ago