Losing your job is bad for your health, but there are things you can do to minimize the harm

It’s not just about having money problems − it’s how you feel about those problems that matters most for your mental health.

Jeffrey Anvari-Clark, Assistant Professor of Social Work, University of North Dakota • conversation
March 27, 2025 • ~8 min

Digital imperialism: How US social media firms are using American law to challenge global tech regulation

Trump Media and Rumble joining X in legal fight against the Brazilian Supreme Court marks a new era of deregulation pushes.

Camille Grenier, Associated Expert at the Technology and Global Affairs Innovation Hub, Sciences Po • conversation
March 21, 2025 • ~11 min

5 years of COVID-19 underscore value of coordinated efforts to manage disease – while CDC, NIH and WHO face threats to their ability to respond to a crisis

More than a century ago, the US learned what happens when there is no national response to a major health crisis.

Katherine A. Foss, Professor of Media Studies, Middle Tennessee State University • conversation
March 11, 2025 • ~11 min

Ann Arbor’s sustainable energy utility aims to build the electric power grid of the future − alongside the old one

With the Trump administration prioritizing fossil fuels, cities and states will have to lead the way on clean energy.

Mike Shriberg, Professor of Practice & Engagement, School for Environment & Sustainability, University of Michigan • conversation
March 10, 2025 • ~9 min

Beyond AI regulation: How government and industry can team up to make the technology safer without hindering innovation

AI innovation and governance can coexist. The key is combining public-private partnerships, market audits and accountability.

Paulo Carvão, Senior Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School • conversation
March 7, 2025 • ~9 min

GOP lawmakers commit to big spending cuts, putting Medicaid under a spotlight – but trimming the low-income health insurance program would be hard

Two health law scholars explain how the public health insurance program for low-income people and people with disabilities works, and why cutting its cost would be hard to pull off.

Nicole Huberfeld, Professor of Health Law and Professor of Law, Boston University • conversation
March 3, 2025 • ~12 min

Coastal economies rely on NOAA, from Maine to Florida, Texas and Alaska – even if they don’t realize it

NOAA’s work has kept fisheries from collapsing, helped coastal ecosystems survive extreme heat and battled invasive species, among many other tasks essential to coastal economies.

Christine Keiner, Chair, Department of Science, Technology, and Society, Rochester Institute of Technology • conversation
Feb. 28, 2025 • ~10 min

USAID’s apparent demise and the US withdrawal from WHO put millions of lives worldwide at risk and imperil US national security

USAID has a decades-long history of fighting smallpox, polio, malaria, tuberculosis and HIV.

Nicole Hassoun, Professor of Philosophy, Binghamton University, State University of New York • conversation
Feb. 25, 2025 • ~8 min

Why including people with disabilities in the workforce and higher education benefits everyone

For one thing, the presence of employees with disabilities improves the culture of the entire organization, making it more collaborative and responsive.

Lauren Shallish, Associate Professor of Disability Studies in Education, Rutgers University - Newark • conversation
Feb. 24, 2025 • ~10 min

CDC layoffs strike deeply at its ability to respond to the current flu, norovirus and measles outbreaks and other public health emergencies

The CDC was instrumental in eradicating smallpox, identifying the causes of HIV and encouraging Americans to get the COVID-19 shot.

Jordan Miller, Teaching Professor of Public Health, Arizona State University • conversation
Feb. 19, 2025 • ~10 min

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