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A seven-year diplomatic dispute over the land earmarked for the ski resort ensured it was never built.
Naturalized citizens like the author are an important voting bloc, representing 5% of eligible voters in Michigan.
A professor of urban journalism explains what the national press has overlooked about Detroit’s grit and revival.
Scientists use jargon and complicated language to describe their work. Regular folks ‘get it’ more when descriptions are simpler – and think better of the researchers themselves.
Les bigtechs et leurs produits jouent un rôle démesuré dans nos sociétés et nos économies. Les enjeux de l’élection présidentielle américaine sont énormes, en termes de régulation de ces technologies.
A scholar of fashion and politics explains what people can understand about the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates − and their running mates − by their selection of clothing.
Big tech and its high-tech products and services play an outsized role in the economy and society. The Trump and Biden-Harris records point to how the next administration might regulate technology.
Communism, Marxism and socialism are all different economic and political ideas. As concepts, they all seek to move toward greater economic equality and public participation in democracy.
All the oxygen in your body is thanks to magic numbers of protons and neutrons in the nucleus.
The US Supreme Court’s high-profile Grants Pass ruling allows cities to clear homeless encampments, even if they can’t offer shelter. A scholar explains why a Housing First approach is more effective.
Only 5 women have ever won a Nobel Prize in physics. The field as a whole has issues with gender diversity, but as a woman physicist explains, success is possible for women in the field.
Compared with voters who are trying to have kids or haven’t decided yet, those who definitely don’t want to have kids – known as the ‘child-free’ – have a different set of political priorities.
Praying in school is protected by the Constitution but only under certain conditions.
Typical news readers prefer news headlines with simple language over more complex wording.
An academic’s claims of irregularities at the ballot box created a media buzz in South Korea. The reality, however, suggested data was misinterpreted.
On issues and policies in which government has a serious role – taxes, immigration, the state of the economy and even abortion – a 2023 survey found a great deal of agreement among Americans.
Making physics more engaging means meeting students where they are, highlighting the ways in which it plays a role in their communities.
A study in Detroit finds large areas without pet resources, mainly in lower-income and minority neighborhoods. Better access to supplies and services could help owners and animals thrive together.
Since 2020, a team of legal researchers has collected more than 12,000 cases involving enslaved people and more than 40,000 cases that cite those cases.
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Associate Professor of History, Michigan State University
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Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University
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Professor of Nuclear Physics, Michigan State University
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Professor of Journalism, Michigan State University
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Associate Professor of Communication, Michigan State University
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Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Michigan State University
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Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Michigan State University
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Professor of Physics, Michigan State University
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Professor of Law & Walter H. Stowers Chair of Law and Religion, Michigan State University
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Professor of Psychology, Michigan State University
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Associate Professor of African History, Michigan State University
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Assistant Professor of Political Theory and Constitutional Democracy, Michigan State University
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Associate Professor of Chemistry, Michigan State University
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Fashion Professor, Michigan State University
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Associate Professor of Psychology, Michigan State University
