Facing a shutdown, budget negotiations are much harder because Congress has given Trump power to cut spending through ‘rescission’

Continuing resolutions usually just extend current levels of spending for a short time so that the two parties can continue negotiating. But as negotiations over long-term budgets have tended to fail ...

4 decades after the landmark book ‘Alone in a Crowd,’ women in the trades still battle bias – a professor-turned-welder reflects

Back in 1985, Schroedel wrote that she had three goals for “Alone in a Crowd”: to let women doing nontraditional work know ...

Scams and frauds: Here are the tactics criminals use on you in the age of AI and cryptocurrencies

Technology has supercharged age-old fraud. AI makes deception virtually indistinguishable from reality, crypto enables anonymous theft, and the remote-work era expands opportunities to trick people.

5 ways students can think about learning so that they can learn more − and how their teachers can help

Other than the growth mindset, I argue that five other beliefs are particularly important to promote in classrooms to help students become better learners and more prepared for the modern world. Some ...

We tracked every overseas trip by world leaders since the end of the Cold War – here’s what we found

A pivotal characteristic of contemporary global leader travel is its predominantly intraregional nature. Leaders overwhelmingly prioritize visits to countries within their own geographic areas: ...

Trump administration is threatening liberal foundations and nonprofits after Kirk’s death – but proving wrongdoing by any of them would be very hard

(THE CONVERSATION) Following the Sept. 10, 2025, death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah, the Trump administration signaled that it intends to expand investigations into “ leftist groups ” ...

Bolsonaro joins a rogues’ gallery of coup plotters held to account for their failed power grab

(THE CONVERSATION) Jair Bolsonaro’s conviction on Sept. 11, 2025, puts the former Brazilian president in a rogues’ gallery of ...

Fed, under pressure to cut rates, tries to balance labor market and inflation – while avoiding dreaded stagflation

The labor market has seen continued deterioration, most notably with the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ revisions to nonfarm ...

Molecular ‘fossils’ offer microscopic clues to the origins of life – but they take care to interpret

Today, biological organisms are able to make use of phosphates through proteins – molecular machines that regulate all aspects of life. By binding to proteins, phosphates regulate metabolism and ...