The CEOs of Discord, Snap, TikTok, X and Meta prepare to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Jan. 31, 2024.
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Joan Donovan, Boston University; Sara Parker, McGill University
As legislators rail against social media companies, the companies continue to put millions of young people at risk. Here’s how − and what can be done about it.
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International
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Nicholas R. Micinski, University of Maine; Kelsey Norman, Rice University
The US is among more than a dozen countries to freeze funding to UN agency providing aid to displaced Gazans over allegations of complicity in the Oct. 7 attack.
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Economy + Business
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Christopher Decker, University of Nebraska Omaha
The central bank is ‘really in risk management mode,‘ its chairman said.
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Linda Ferrell, Auburn University; O.C. Ferrell, Auburn University
Marketers are increasingly focused on reaching narrow audiences – but when it comes to mass appeal, the Super Bowl doesn’t miss.
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Education
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Sabrina Habib, University of South Carolina
A study in which students brainstormed all the uses of a paper clip shows that AI can both enhance and harm the creative process.
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Science + Technology
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Phillip McGarry, University of Tennessee
With growing polarization, political attitudes have begun to coincide with moral convictions. Partisans increasingly view each other as immoral. New research reveals the depth of that conviction.
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Politics + Society
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Derek H. Kiernan-Johnson, University of Colorado Boulder
Lawyers submitting briefs to the Supreme Court in the Trump Colorado ballot case must file a ‘certificate of word count.’ Why? As one judge put it, lawyers’ briefs are ‘too long, too long, too long.’
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Mark A. Graber, University of Maryland
US law has long held that those who support rebels and insurrectionists are just as guilty of treason as those who support foreign enemies.
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Thomas Doherty, Brandeis University
On the 100th anniversary of Woodrow Wilson’s death, a presidential historian looks at how he was able to stay in power despite his illnesses.
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Health + Medicine
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Rodolfo Bonnin, Florida International University; Leonard M. Gralnik, Florida International University; Nathaly Shoua-Desmarais, Florida International University
Close to half of those who die by suicide saw a primary care doctor within a month of their death.
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Arts + Culture
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Matthew Jordan, Penn State
As the journalism industry continues to crater, wealthy plutocrats are consolidating their control over information systems.
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Podcast 🎙️
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Gemma Ware, The Conversation
Stephen Garnett takes us inside a scientific spat about how to govern the naming of new species. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
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