Data privacy risks for women in a post-Roe world

How corporate takeovers are fundamentally changing podcasting

John Sullivan, Muhlenberg College

By implementing paywalls, making exclusive content deals and incorporating ad tech, big media companies have reshaped what was once an entirely free and open ecosystem.

Just how accurate are rapid antigen tests? Two testing experts explain the latest data

Nathaniel Hafer, UMass Chan Medical School; Apurv Soni, UMass Chan Medical School

With the relaxation of mask-wearing mandates, there’s even more need to know how much over-the-counter tests help.

More mass shootings are happening at grocery stores – 13% of shooters are motivated by racial hatred, criminologists find

Jillian Peterson, Hamline University ; James Densley, Metropolitan State University

A suspect apparently motivated by a white supremacist agenda shot dead 10 shoppers. Analysis shows that mass shootings – and those at grocery stores – are on the rise.

Enforcing unprecedented subpoenas for GOP lawmakers turns on complex legal precedent going back centuries

Jennifer Selin, Wayne State University

Framers of the Constitution put in a clause giving lawmakers immunity from liability for any ‘speech or debate.’ Interpreting it may be key in the battle to get some Republicans to testify.

The story of suffering and death behind Ireland’s ban and subsequent legalization of abortion

Gretchen E. Ely, University of Tennessee

In 1983, a constitutional referendum outlawed abortion in Ireland. In 2018, another referendum repealed the ban and legalized abortion during the first trimester of pregnancy. What happened?

Russia’s reported abduction of Ukrainian children echoes other genocidal policies, including US history of kidnapping Native American children

Marcia Zug, University of South Carolina

Ukraine says thousands of Ukrainian children have been kidnapped by Russian soldiers, which is a war crime. The US government kidnapped and forced the assimilation of Indigenous children for decades.

Could people breathe the air on Mars?

Phylindia Gant, University of Florida; Amy J. Williams, University of Florida

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and one of our closest neighbors in space. But it’s not a very welcoming place for an Earthling to visit.

Some chocolate has a dark side to it – child labor

Robert C Ulin, Rochester Institute of Technology

An anthropologist writes that despite best efforts, there is no guarantee that children may not have been exploited in the production process of chocolate.

The fight against school segregation began in South Carolina, long before it ended with Brown v. Board

Roy Jones, Clemson University

The Brown v. Board of Education case, which resulted in the Supreme Court outlawing school segregation, originally started in Clarendon County, South Carolina.

Pandemic decision-making is difficult and exhausting – here’s the psychology that explains why

These strategies and life hacks can help anyone with ADHD, as well as those who struggle with attention problems but don’t have a diagnosis

Enforcing unprecedented subpoenas for GOP lawmakers turns on complex legal precedent going back centuries