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As more Americans go 'no contact' with their parents, they live out a dilemma at the heart of Shakespeare's 'King Lear' -- Jeanette Tran, Drake University

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

13 hours ago

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

13 hours 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

1 day ago

What the panic over Gen Z's reading habits gets wrong -- Kathi Inman Berens, Portland State University and Rachel Noorda, Portland State University

12 days ago

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

11 days ago

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

17 days ago

What critics of college athletes making money get wrong about name, image and likeness policies -- Brennan Berg, University of Mississippi

12 days ago

Nearly 100 years ago, Philadelphia's Inez Patterson integrated pools and encouraged other Black girls to swim too -- Samantha Adams, University of Michigan

20 days ago

Seat the rich! World Cup ticket inflation reflects widening gap between haves and have-nots -- Stefan Szymanski, University of Michigan

2 months ago

For Iran's diaspora, a tough World Cup call: To support the national team or protest – or both? -- Shirvin Zeinalzadeh, Arizona State University

2 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

14 days ago

Toy Story 5's 'Lilypad' is an indictment of the world that birthed the 'iPad Kid' -- Aarushi Bhandari, Davidson College

1 month ago

¡Ándale! ¡Arriba! Speedy Gonzales set to make his triumphant return to the silver screen -- Jared Bahir Browsh, University of Colorado Boulder

4 months ago

'Hamnet' is making audiences break down in tears – and upending beliefs about male grief -- Jeanette Tran, Drake University

5 months ago

As the Oscars approach, Hollywood grapples with AI's growing influence on filmmaking -- Holly Willis, University of Southern California

5 months ago

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

1 month ago

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

3 months ago

Sora's downfall signals broader problems with AI's creative utility -- Ahmed Elgammal, Rutgers University

3 months ago

Michelangelo hated painting the Sistine Chapel – and never aspired to be a painter to begin with -- Anna Swartwood House, University of South Carolina

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

1 month 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

3 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

2 months ago

What I found when I scanned the brains of kids creating tunes on the piano -- Karen Barrett, University of California, San Francisco

20 days ago

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

1 month ago

How a box set from 1964 attempted to capture the sweep of American music from the colonial era to the counterculture -- Ted Olson, East Tennessee State University

1 month ago

Techno tourism in Detroit – what do visitors owe the city that created the music? -- Carla Vecchiola, University of Michigan-Dearborn

1 month ago

30 years after 'Reasonable Doubt,' Jay-Z's career embodies hip-hop's biggest contradictions -- Jabari M. Evans, University of South Carolina

1 month ago

The art of literary translation exposes the limits of AI -- Krupa Shandilya, Amherst College

1 month ago

DIY zines are helping queer communities tell their own stories and craft their own culture -- Rachel Schneider, Missouri University of Science and Technology

2 months ago

Despite all the likes, literallys and dropped g's, English isn't decaying before our eyes -- Valerie M. Fridland, University of Nevada, Reno

3 months ago

Artemis II moonshot reflects a spacefaring vision present in Jules Verne's 19th-century novel -- Anastasia Klimchynskaya, Illinois Wesleyan University

4 months ago

Thousands of AI-written, edited or 'polished' books are being sold – an eerie echo of Orwell's 'novel-writing machines' -- Laura Beers, American University

4 months ago

As AI reshapes newsrooms, leading media outlets are charting different paths for its use -- Erik P. Bucy, Texas Tech University and Milad Jalalian Ebrahimi, Texas Tech University

19 days ago

TMZ descends on Washington in a test of whether tabloid tactics can serve the public interest -- Angelica Kalika, University of Colorado Boulder

2 months ago

As goes CBS Radio News, so goes the idea that news media should serve the public interest -- Matthew Jordan, Penn State

2 months ago

The two lives of Chuck Norris -- Ben Pettis, University of Richmond

4 months ago

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

1 month ago

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

2 months ago

Why are buttons and zippers on different sides of men's and women's clothes? -- JuYoung Lee, Mississippi State University and Caroline Kobia, Mississippi State University

2 months ago

As renaissance fairs become big business, can they retain their counterculture roots? -- Katrina Stack, University of Tennessee and Reagan Yessler, Pellissippi State Community College

4 months ago

The costume maker who convinced Hersheypark to embrace candy mascots and 'chocolatize' their old-timey theme park -- John Haddad, Penn State

4 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

2 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

2 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

3 months ago

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

4 months 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

1 month 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

1 month ago

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

2 months ago

TikTok's popular microdramas shrink TV into bite-sized chunks -- Jessica Maddox, University of Georgia and Krysten Stein, University of Cincinnati

3 months ago

HBO's 'The Pitt' nails how hospital cyberattacks create chaos, endanger patients and disrupt critical care -- Jeffrey Tully, University of California, San Diego and Christian Dameff, University of California, San Diego

4 months ago

Why fatherhood matters more than ever before -- Darby Saxbe, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

2 months ago

What we misunderstand about absent fathers -- Matthew Alemu, University of Michigan; Northeastern University

2 months ago

Older Americans are often compelled to keep working – and then criticized for not stepping aside -- Lee Ann Rawlins Williams, University of North Dakota

2 months ago

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

26 days 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

20 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

1 month ago

Butter or margarine? A food scientist describes their subtle chemical deviations and how they can affect your baked goods -- Rosemary Trout, Drexel University

2 months ago

I'm an MLK scholar – and I'll never be able to view King in the same light -- Jason Miller, North Carolina State University

1 month 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