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The U.S. will lose thousands of highly trained, intelligent professionals to other nations because of Trump’s policies. Professor Kellie Carter Jackson: “It is a huge detriment to American society.”

Economists Melissa Schettini Kearney and Phillip Levine found “changes in how much value people place on different life choices… reflecting a greater emphasis on personal fulfillment and career.”

The once-thriving “battery belt” is faltering. “Projects are being paused, cancelled, and closed at a rate 6x more than during the same period in 2024,” reports Jay Turner’s The Big Green Machine.

Philosophy professor Julie Walsh writes for The Conversation about what yesterday’s witch hunts have in common with today’s misinformation crisis, from printing presses to Facebook feeds.

The phrase “joy is resistance” has been popping up all over the place lately. But what, exactly, does it mean? Professor Kellie Carter Jackson weighs in on the phrase’s meaning on NPR’s Code Switch.

“Projects are being paused, cancelled, and closed at a rate 6x more than during the same period in 2024,” states The Big Green Machine, Jay Turner’s website that tracks U.S. clean energy investments.

Professors Chipo Dendere and Kellie Carter-Jackson write for TIME about the dangers of Trump’s brain drain: “In short, countries push enormous artistic or scientific talent out at their own expense.”

Economist Victoria Wang, a recent Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles, said she was thrilled to land a tenure-track position at Wellesley after sending out 386 applications.

Bad math education means we are “scared of math, and therefore not in the habit of questioning it, scrutinizing it or looking at it critically,” says Ismar Volic. “Politicians absolutely know this.”