Migration is trending upward, challenging host communities

Four strategies to make your neighborhood safer

Ishita Chordia, University of Washington

Crime is spiking and you’re scared. Here are strategies to get past the fear and diminish the threat of crime in your community.

Republicans’ anti-ESG attack may be silencing insurers, but it isn’t changing their pro-climate business decisions

Rachel Kyte, Tufts University

A ‘greenhushing’ campaign is targeting insurers, who have the power to accelerate the transition to cleaner energy in how they write policies and invest.

Wildfire smoke can harm human health, even when the fire is hundreds of miles away – a toxicologist explains why

Christopher T. Migliaccio, University of Montana

Fires in Canada have sent smoke across several US states, leaving cities including New York, Detroit and Denver at one point with some of the worst air quality in the world – even far from the flames.

Will faster federal reviews speed up the clean energy shift? Two legal scholars explain what the National Environmental Policy Act does and doesn’t do

J.B. Ruhl, Vanderbilt University; James Salzman, University of California, Los Angeles

Do environmental reviews improve projects or delay them and drive up costs? Two legal scholars explain how the law works and how it could influence the ongoing transition to renewable energy.

WHO’s recommendation against the use of artificial sweeteners for weight loss leaves many questions unanswered

Lindsey Schier, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; Scott Kanoski, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

The WHO report concluded that habitual use of nonsugar sweeteners is linked to a modest increase in diabetes, hypertension and stroke. But the research it’s based on has limitations.

Oklahoma OKs the nation’s first religious charter school – but litigation is likely to follow

Charles J. Russo, University of Dayton

The school’s approval may be the strongest challenge yet to limits on public money in religious schools.

What is incorruptibility? A scholar of Catholic worship explains

Joanne M. Pierce, College of the Holy Cross

People are congregating in Missouri after news spread that the exhumed body of a nun had not decayed four years after her death. There is a long history to these claims.

Messi is heading to the US as Saudi Arabia kicks off bidding war with MLS for aging soccer stars

Stefan Szymanski, University of Michigan

French soccer star Karim Benzema will join Ronaldo in the Saudi Pro League, and others may follow.

Astrud Gilberto spread bossa nova to a welcoming world – but got little love back in Brazil

Mario Higa, Middlebury

During the only major performance she gave in her home country, Gilberto was booed.

Cost and lack of majors are among the top reasons why students leave for-profit colleges

Molly Ott, Arizona State University; Thomas Zimmerman, Rutgers University

Students told researchers that the cost of going to a for-profit college changed over time and eventually became too much to bear.

Arrests of 3 members of an Atlanta charity’s board in a SWAT-team raid is highly unusual and could be unconstitutional

Beth Gazley, Indiana University

Georgia authorities have filed charges against Network for Strong Communities trustees. The nonprofit opposes the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, which protesters call ‘Cop City.’

Historians are learning more about how the Nazis targeted trans people

US, Chinese warships’ near miss in Taiwan Strait hints at ongoing troubled diplomatic waters, despite chatter about talks

‘Man, the hunter’? Archaeologists’ assumptions about gender roles in past humans ignore an icky but potentially crucial part of original ‘paleo diet’