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Most Pittsburgh‑area communities are losing residents – here’s why that might be OK

Christopher Briem, The Conversation Few city planning concepts are as sacrosanct as the idea that growth is good and decline is bad. For cities and counties, population...

What Allegheny County’s new court‑ordered mental health treatment program can and can’t do

by Erica Maloney, Chatham University Pittsburgh-area courts have a new tool for people in mental health crisis: the power to order treatment instead of incarceration...

What the lotus flower reveals about veteran PTSD in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey

by Ben Cartlidge, University of Liverpool Warning: this article contains spoilers for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. In Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, Odysseus (played by Matt Damon)...

Why 78 degrees isn’t the right thermostat setting for everyone during a heat wave

by Destenie Nock, Carnegie Mellon University Across the U.S., it’s a hot summer, and electricity prices are high. Various public officials and corporate websites suggest...

As Route 66 turns 100, what is it that we’re actually celebrating?

In 1946, when Nat King Cole recorded “(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66,” Cole and his band were unable to get their own “kicks”...

Most Americans prefer to die at home, but the US healthcare system often prevents it

by Karen Lutfey Spencer, University of Colorado Denver and Jane Callahan, North Carolina Central University Ask people what they want at the end of their...

Taxi Driver at 50: how Martin Scorsese’s film foreshadowed the manosphere

by Nathan Abrams, Bangor University As plumes of steam rise and dissipate from the grates of New York in the opening frames of Taxi Driver,...

200 years after his birth, controversial composer Stephen Foster still sings to America’s contradictions

by Christopher Lynch, University of Pittsburgh The 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence happens to also coincide with the 200th birthday of composer Stephen...

Children’s books about Black people’s everyday, joyful lives are sometimes banned – but they help all kids explore what it means to be human

by Wintre Foxworth Johnson, University of Virginia; Brooke Harris Garad, Butler University; Jennifer D. Turner, University of Maryland, and Tiffany D. Meadows, University of...

How Lindsey Graham’s keen ability to read the moment propelled him to political relevance for 3 decades

by Gibbs Knotts, Coastal Carolina University and Christopher A. Cooper, Western Carolina University Since South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham’s death on June 11, 2026, much...

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