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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.

“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.”

Most American friendships happen between people with similar political beliefs, according to new research by professor Angela Bahns, director of the Prejudice Reduction and Friendship Diversity Lab.

Four Massachusetts elite liberal arts schools avoided a big Trump tax, and may have an unlikely ally to thank for it––Hillsdale College. “We dodged a bullet,” said economics professor Philip Levine.

After losing her Altadena home to wildfire, Lynn Sternberger ’07 reflects on loss, accountability, and what it means to rebuild a community.

“Time turns us all into conservationists,” the philosopher Erich Hatala Matthes observes. “If we want to save the things we cherish from time’s ravages, then we need to preserve them, conserve them.”