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News-academic partnerships aren’t a total solution to the crisis facing local information. But it’s an elegant response ...
10/09/2026

News-academic partnerships aren’t a total solution to the crisis facing local information. But it’s an elegant response to several urgent civic needs, writes Meg Little Reilly in .

A powerful example of the good things that colleges can do for their communities.

Have aliens come to Earth? The evidence collected over three-quarters of a century is just not strong enough to support ...
10/08/2026

Have aliens come to Earth? The evidence collected over three-quarters of a century is just not strong enough to support the claim of contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, writes Michael Shermer in .

Those videos are not what they may seem.

Editorial: Brigham nurses’ growing reliance on strikes as a negotiation tactic scares patients needlessly. The hospital ...
10/08/2026

Editorial: Brigham nurses’ growing reliance on strikes as a negotiation tactic scares patients needlessly. The hospital and nurses should return to negotiations and seek a contract agreement that makes one unnecessary.

An open-ended strike could needlessly put patient care at risk

To run again, Seth Moulton would have to carve out a place in a party that did not see him as the face or voice of gener...
10/08/2026

To run again, Seth Moulton would have to carve out a place in a party that did not see him as the face or voice of generational change, writes Joan Vennochi.

Moulton says he failed to make the case for generational change. But his defeat raises a bigger question: What kind of change are Democratic voters actually looking for?

The searing reality of botched ex*****ons has never made much of a dent in the way Americans think about the death penal...
10/08/2026

The searing reality of botched ex*****ons has never made much of a dent in the way Americans think about the death penalty, writes Austin Sarat. Even when they do garner such attention, they quickly fade from the news.

Botched ex*****ons rarely change Americans’ minds about capital punishment. But Pike’s story could help expose the deeper failures of the system.

Bret Stephens is clearly not terribly interested in reading any of the books on the lists he writes about, even as he su...
10/08/2026

Bret Stephens is clearly not terribly interested in reading any of the books on the lists he writes about, even as he suggests they’re designed to make white men like him feel bad, writes Kate Tuttle in .

A prominent New York Times columnist got it wrong.

Rahm Emanuel remains the same man that Obama supporters warned against all those years ago, writes Renée Graham. No one ...
10/08/2026

Rahm Emanuel remains the same man that Obama supporters warned against all those years ago, writes Renée Graham. No one should listen to anything he has to say about how best to pursue justice and accountability.

He doesn’t want Trump impeached. As usual, he’s wrong.

Colleges need to stop rewarding students who offer a slick formula and instead seek out those who do the difficult work ...
10/08/2026

Colleges need to stop rewarding students who offer a slick formula and instead seek out those who do the difficult work of the personal essay, writes Ben Urwand in .

Humans and machines have both fallen into the trap of thinking there’s a tidy formula to the ultimate application essay.

High-containment laboratories are multiplying worldwide, and each new one is another chance for an incident. The US shou...
10/07/2026

High-containment laboratories are multiplying worldwide, and each new one is another chance for an incident. The US should press for a full account of the Irkutsk case and prepare for an outbreak that hopefully will not arrive, writes Ashish K. Jha.

What happened at a Soviet-era anti-plague institute raises questions about Russia’s biological weapons history — and whether the United States is prepared for the next outbreak.

“As 1970s-era Cornell students, we were also working to dispel the myths that, in short, women are responsible for the c...
10/07/2026

“As 1970s-era Cornell students, we were also working to dispel the myths that, in short, women are responsible for the crimes against them,” writes a reader in . “In 50 years, things have not changed for the better.”

As 1970s-era students, we were working to dispel the myths — ones that exist to this day — that women are responsible for the crimes against them.

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