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Why achieving your goals can leave you feeling so empty - Stacy Keltner, Kennesaw State University

11 days ago

AI may quickly generate ideas, but working with people leads to more creative ones -- Clin Lai, Brandeis University and Roger Beaty, Penn State

11 days ago

Nathaniel Hawthorne's notebooks reveal the strange workings of his imagination -- Robert S. Levine, University of Maryland

13 days ago

Americans can now see a famous portrait of the Pacific Islander who captivated 18th-century England for the first time -- Saar Shahar, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

22 days ago

Pittsburgh's 'Green Man' was a real person – why the legend outlives the facts -- Jeffrey Tolbert, Penn State

13 days ago

Horror's monsters find new meaning with queer and trans audiences – how 'Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma' dissects identity -- Wesleigh Gates, University of California, Los Angeles

18 days ago

Taxpayers don't want to pay for new NFL stadiums – so why did politicians approve billions in subsidies to fund six new ones? -- J.C. Bradbury, Kennesaw State University

2 months ago

The Women's Professional Baseball League is betting that women's baseball has a future in the US -- Callie Maddox, Miami University

2 months ago

The NFL sold out its Australia game in 30 minutes – but will the sport make its mark Down Under? -- Adam Cohen, University of Technology Sydney

2 months ago

Professional gaming is brutal on the body – inside the growing field of treating esports injuries -- Erica D. Henn, Temple University

2 months ago

In 'NAZA,' Israeli whistleblowers' revelations about civilian deaths in Gaza reflect a longer history of Palestinian isolation -- Drew Paul, University of Tennessee

1 month ago

'Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma' winks and blows a blood-soaked kiss at horror films of queer past -- Scott Malia, College of the Holy Cross

1 month ago

'The Uprising' shows how medieval people weren't so obedient after all -- Joëlle Rollo-Koster, University of Rhode Island

1 month ago

Why Christopher Nolan turned Circe into a vindictive witch -- Bailey Sincox, Binghamton University, State University of New York

3 months ago

'The Odyssey' is a striking portrait of the psychological wounds that can emerge when people violate their deepest values -- Amy S. Badura-Brack, Creighton University

3 months ago

'Fountain' might make you laugh or scowl but asks important questions – a Philly art historian explains why Marcel Duchamp's iconic 1917 sculpture still provokes -- Matthew Palczynski, Temple University

2 months ago

Before the infinity nets, there was 'The Pacific Ocean' – what origin stories focusing on Yayoi Kusama's mental illness miss about her art -- Audrey Storm, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

2 months ago

Why Gen Z is falling in love with film photography -- Rotem Rozental, University of Southern California

4 months ago

AI-generated fantasies of US intervention reveal how desperation has narrowed Cuba's political horizons -- Michael J. Bustamante, University of Miami

5 months ago

A rare bipartisan housing bill just became law – but Americans will still struggle with affordability -- Kirk McClure, University of Kansas and Alex Schwartz, The New School

3 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)

1 year 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

1 year ago

England's 'once in a generation' housing law takes effect as US housing legislation sits in congressional purgatory -- Allyson Gold, Wake Forest University

6 months ago

What the world can learn from Uruguay as the global housing crisis deepens -- Jennifer Duyne Barenstein, ETH Zurich and Daniela Sanjinés, ETH Zurich

5 months ago

Nina Simone, Langston Hughes and their forgotten creative collaboration -- Jason Miller, North Carolina State University

1 month ago

Dolly Parton took control of her career by making men the butt of the joke -- Stephanie Vander Wel, University at Buffalo

2 months ago

200 years after his birth, controversial composer Stephen Foster still sings to America's contradictions -- Christopher Lynch, University of Pittsburgh

3 months ago

Whether it's banning books or preventing Macklemore from touring, silencing artists often backfires -- Naveen Basavaraj, Indiana University

1 month ago

How one of the world's biggest music stars is transforming the Spanish language -- Lourdes Moreno Cazalla, Universidad Nebrija

26 days ago

Anne Carson's Nobel-winning, genre-defying work bridges the gap between ancient Greek literature and modern life -- Amy Cannon, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

29 days ago

More than 50 years after a North Dakota school district burned copies of Kurt Vonnegut's 'Slaughterhouse-Five,' the anti-war novel is still being censored -- Susan Farrell, College of Charleston

1 month ago

Annie Dillard brought poetry into prose, pioneering a mystical form of creative nonfiction that critics both admired and misunderstood -- Amy Cannon, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

1 month ago

Just as the world appears to be losing its appetite for books, William T. Vollmann pens a 3,000-page novel -- Christopher Coffman, Boston University

2 months ago

How libraries in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and other Pennsylvania communities evolved from subscription clubs to vital public institutions -- Bernadette A. Lear, Penn State

1 month ago

As private equity, politics and prediction markets reshape sports, is the press box up to the task? -- Alex Volonte, University of Florida

1 month ago

You can't shield kids from scary news – here's what 'Sesame Street' and other children's shows did after 9/11 -- Julie Dobrow, Tufts University

2 months ago

Stars and Stripes shows how government-funded journalism can work – if it's free to report the truth -- Cindy Elmore, East Carolina University

2 months ago

They're content creators with thousands of adoring fans – so why do they feel so terrible? -- Julianna Pillemer, New York University

2 months ago

What was the original first-person shooter? Two largely forgotten computer games from the 1970s ushered in the genre -- Mark J. P. Wolf, Concordia University Wisconsin

1 month ago

The story of Little Italy's Feast of San Gennaro is the story of how Italian immigrants became American -- Clare Whitton, University of Oxford

1 month ago

Trump's slapdash Reflecting Pool renovations stand in stark contrast to years of deliberation and engineering ingenuity that went into its creation -- Jennifer Tucker, Wesleyan University

2 months ago

As Route 66 turns 100, what is it that we're actually celebrating? -- Daniel Milowski, Arizona State University

4 months ago

FIFA's Haiti jersey ban echoes the long campaign to discredit and downplay the Haitian Revolution -- Julia Gaffield, William & Mary

4 months ago

How LGBTQ employees at Kodak risked their careers to build a safer, more inclusive workplace -- Tamar Carroll, Rochester Institute of Technology

4 months ago

Who was the first transgender person? -- Ky Merkley, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Nick Winters, Northwestern University

4 months ago

How Amazon workers made glamour a form of protest -- Eileen G'Sell, Washington University in St. Louis

5 months ago

Looksmaxxing isn't just a TikTok trend – it often reflects severe body image issues in teen boys and young men -- Jordyn Tovey, University of Michigan

5 months ago

Lower East Side street named for 'King of Comics' Jack Kirby, a nod to one of the countless kids of immigrants who shaped the genre -- Miriam Eve Mora, University of Michigan

5 months ago

In his efforts to remake federal architecture, Trump repudiates the 'republican ideals' that have long informed it -- Kevin D. Murphy, Vanderbilt University

6 months ago

How Jim Bakker became the Johnny Carson of Christian TV -- John Wigger, University of Missouri-Columbia

1 month ago

How 'To Catch a Predator' indulged America's appetite for humiliation and punishment -- Daniel LaChance, Emory University and Paul Kaplan, San Diego State University

1 month ago

Philadelphia's rich history of children's television includes 'Double Dare' and a golden age of local hosts like Chief Halftown and Captain Noah -- Jared Bahir Browsh, University of Colorado Boulder

3 months ago

'Heartstopper' is helping LGBTQ+ fans find hope and community across time and space -- Annaliese Grant, University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Carrie Grant, Towson University

3 months ago

5 reasons Stephen Colbert is one of the most important satirists in American history -- Sophia A. McClennen, Penn State

5 months ago

A pregnant mom let her 5-year-old stay outside to collect goose feathers – and was placed on the child abuse and neglect registry -- Jennifer L. Brinkley, University of Dayton

15 days ago

Dog parks are an antidote to the isolation and divisions that social media can fuel -- Kevin B. Johnson, University of Pennsylvania

2 months ago

The real reason many Americans are cutting ties with their parents and siblings -- Rin Reczek, The Ohio State University

2 months ago

What a western Pennsylvania '90s-style Pizza Hut reveals about nostalgia -- Jeff Galak, Carnegie Mellon University

3 months ago

The rise of Yemeni coffeehouses in Dearborn and beyond -- Sally Howell, University of Michigan-Dearborn

3 months ago

Starbucks' big marketing blunder in South Korea shows how cultural blind spots can put global brands in a bind -- Karen Stollznow, University of Colorado Boulder; Griffith University

29 days ago

Juneteenth's real meaning is written on the plates of smoked meats, potato salad and watermelon -- Bobby J. Smith II, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

4 months ago

What C.S. Lewis said about Narnia's most famous character: the Jesus-like lion Aslan -- Christopher A. Snyder, PhD, Mississippi State University

4 days ago

I'm an artist who works with glass – here's how the physics and chemistry of glassblowing work -- Suzanne Peck, Rochester Institute of Technology

1 day ago

AI-induced cultural stagnation is no longer speculation − it's already happening -- Ahmed Elgammal, Rutgers University

3 days ago

A brief history of Dearborn, Michigan – the first Arab-American majority city in the US -- Sally Howell, University of Michigan-Dearborn and Amny Shuraydi, University of Michigan-Dearborn

2 days ago

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

1 month ago