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Happy Sunday – and welcome to the best of The Conversation.
The indictment of President Donald Trump in Florida on Thursday has raised interesting questions about legal precedents and the historic nature of the charges. Here are a few of our recently published stories:
America has a housing problem. This week I traveled to Washington, D.C., for two journalism conferences and saw people living in tents on the sidewalk, a common sight in many of the nation’s cities. In addition to the unhoused, many working Americans have been priced out of the housing market.
Jeffrey Kruth and Murali Paranandi are professors of architecture at Miami University who study how cities change over time and how certain building trends become commonplace. What’s common in America now are single-family homes, because it is illegal to build anything else on 75% of residential land in our cities, they write.
Their piece explores accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, a “nimble” type of housing that’s cheaper to build, heat and cool and that could help put a roof over more Americans’ heads.
Later this week we’ll bring you stories about how the U.S. death rate compares with that in other high-income countries, how TV shows are portraying abortion in post-Dobbs America and more analysis of the federal government's case against former President Trump.
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Emily Costello
Managing Editor
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Readers' picks
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An AI-driven political campaign could be all things to all people.
Eric Smalley, TCUS; Biodiversity Heritage Library/Flickr; Taymaz Valley/Flickr
Archon Fung, Harvard Kennedy School; Lawrence Lessig, Harvard University
Artificial intelligence looks like a political campaign manager’s dream because it could tune its persuasion efforts to millions of people individually – but it could be a nightmare for democracy.
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Laurie Marhoefer, University of Washington
Only in the past few years have the stories and experiences of trans people in Nazi Germany come to light.
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Meredith Oyen, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
What was behind the latest encounter between US and Chinese military vessels in contested waters?
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Cristina Andrade-Feraud, Florida International University; Diana Azzam, Florida International University
Millions of people worldwide are exposed via soil and water to arsenic, whether naturally occurring or related to pollution. Chronic exposure is linked to the formation of cancer stem cells.
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Karl Taube, University of California, Riverside
The return of an important monument to Mexico puts a spotlight on a culture whose influence is still felt in the Americas today.
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Editors' picks
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A newly built accessory dwelling unit in Los Angeles.
Alisha Jucevic/The Washington Post via Getty Images
Jeff Kruth, Miami University; Murali Paranandi, Miami University
Though accessory dwelling units have been around for centuries, a recent survey found that 71% of Americans were unfamiliar with the concept.
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Lydia Renee Cleveland, Old Dominion University; Alexandra P Leader, Eastern Virginia Medical School; Erika Frydenlund, Old Dominion University
When host communities unexpectedly receive large numbers of migrants, the influx can tax local services – and relations between migrants and residents.
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Darryl K. Brown, University of Virginia
If a person – in this case, the former president of the United States – is charged by federal and state prosecutors, or prosecutors in different states, at the same time, which case goes first?
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Alexandra Wormley, Arizona State University; Michael Varnum, Arizona State University
A number of theories try to explain how cultural differences come to be. A new study quantifies how such factors as resource abundance, population density and infectious disease risk can contribute.
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Daniel T. Blumstein, University of California, Los Angeles; Catherine Price, University of Sydney; Thom van Dooren, University of Sydney
Behavior-based interventions could boost conservation efforts, but raise their own set of tricky ethical issues.
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News Quiz 🧠
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Fritz Holznagel, The Conversation
Test your knowledge with a weekly quiz drawn from some of our favorite stories. This was a week jampacked with news items: special counsels charging, dams exploding, vice presidents running, music stars passing, and soccer stars signing.
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