Supreme Court rules the US is not required to ensure access to water for the Navajo Nation

Robert Glennon, University of Arizona

By a narrow margin, the Supreme Court has ruled against the Navajo Nation in a case over water rights in the drought-stricken US Southwest.

3M offers $10.3B settlement over PFAS contamination in water systems – now, how do you destroy a ‘forever chemical’?

A. Daniel Jones, Michigan State University; Hui Li, Michigan State University

PFAS can be filtered, but getting rid of the chemicals is a monumental challenge. A biochemist and soil scientist explain.

More than 1.5 million Americans lost Medicaid coverage in the spring of 2023 due to the end of pandemic policies – and paperwork problems

Maithreyi Gopalan, Penn State

The health coverage program’s enrollment soared during the three years after March 2020 due to temporary policies adopted at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Migrants often can’t access US health care until they are critically ill – here are some of the barriers they face

Anthony Jimenez, Rochester Institute of Technology

More than 11 million migrants who lack papers live in the United States, and many of them are ineligible for health coverage.

Processing and grieving an ongoing loss – such as a child with a devastating injury or disability – does not fit neatly into traditional models of grief

Brad Phillips, West Virginia University

Letting go of what could have been is a critical step in handling ambiguous loss.

Ja Morant shows how a ‘good guy with a gun’ can never be Black

A. Joseph Dial, Purdue University

America’s veneration of gun ownership is seconded only by its commitment to rendering armed Blacks as an existential danger to the civility and structure of America.

The folly of making art with text-to-image generative AI

Ahmed Elgammal, Rutgers University

Visual artists draw from visual references, not words, as they imagine their work. So when language is in the driver’s seat of making art, it erects a barrier between the artist and the canvas.

There is no legal reason the US shouldn’t supply cluster bombs to Ukraine – but that doesn’t make it morally right

Robert Goldman, American University

Both sides in the Ukrainian war are thought to have used cluster munitions. The weapon takes a heavy toll on civilians but isn’t banned under international law.

Moms lose significant sleep and free time during kids’ school year, new study finds

Todd Jones, Mississippi State University; Benjamin Cowan, Washington State University; Jeff Swigert, Southern Utah University

Summer is an opportunity for many families – and mothers and teenagers in particular – to catch up on much-needed sleep along with exercise and leisure activities.

How protest movements use feminine images and social media to fight sexist ideologies of authoritarian regimes

Daniel Merino, The Conversation; Nehal El-Hadi, The Conversation

From the Arab Spring to the Belarus Awakening and the ongoing Iranian protest Women, Life, Freedom, female-centered imagery and social media are battlegrounds of resistance and oppression.

Why is extreme ‘frontier travel’ booming despite the risks?

How traditional Indigenous education helped four lost children survive 40 days in the Amazon jungle

Animal Farm has been translated into Shona – why a group of Zimbabwean writers undertook the task

Here’s the first question of this week’s edition:

Criminal fraudsters often use a blend of acetone and gas-line antifreeze to do what?

1. A. Short-circuit ATM machines
2. B. Knock out mail carriers
3. C. Soak the ink off stolen checks
4. D. Spike the punch at fraudster prom
5.  

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