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Workplace Culture

Gen Z isn’t bad at workplace communication—your company is bad at explaining its rules

By Jeff LeBlanc and The ConversationSeptember 28, 2026

What Virginia’s data-center backlash shows about how Americans feel right now — and it’s not just anger

By Fengxiu Zhang, Saba Siddiki and The ConversationSeptember 28, 2026

Frankenstein made Mary Shelley immortal. Her other visionary novel anticipated a world of climate change and pandemic

By Eileen Hunt and The ConversationSeptember 28, 2026

The fibermaxxing boom is missing a hard truth: more fiber isn’t always better fiber

By Jean Liew and The ConversationSeptember 28, 2026

Trump’s hidden tax on every American: how diesel touches everything that hits your wallet

By Vidya Mani and The ConversationSeptember 28, 2026

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Wealthy students are 13x more likely to ace the SAT. The test turns 100 this year

By Beth Kania-Gosche and The ConversationSeptember 22, 2026

church

AI chatbots are quietly becoming spiritual advisers for millions, data shows

By Morgan Shipley and The ConversationSeptember 22, 2026

uva

A dean of libraries explains how AI gives you 4 types of answers — and only one of them is ‘factual’

By Leo S. Lo and The ConversationSeptember 22, 2026

Arts & Entertainment

Zohran Mamdani marks the 100th anniversary of the San Gennaro Feast by leaving Little Italy off a map of New York City’s immigrant hoods

By Clare Whitton and The ConversationSeptember 22, 2026

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From the Boston Tea Party to the Flock camera backlash, 250 years of Americans saying no

By G. Patrick O'Brien and The ConversationSeptember 22, 2026

How Kevin Warsh’s rate hike exposed a 2-speed U.S. economy, with AI and housing at the poles

By John W. Diamond and The ConversationSeptember 22, 2026

We followed people’s memories of 9/11 over the past 25 years — they started hallucinating things by 2002 and never stopped

By Elizabeth A. Phelps, William Hirst and The ConversationSeptember 14, 2026

A $500,000 career, gone at 25: esports’ injury crisis is forcing teams to build sports-medicine staffs

By Erica D. Henn and The ConversationSeptember 7, 2026

Wisconsin cheese, Maine seafood, Kentucky appliances: Trump’s Canada tariffs punch swing states just before the midterms

By Kent Jones and The ConversationSeptember 7, 2026

Trump braces for midterms, crucial union vote as Labor Day shows 75,000 lost manufacturing jobs

By Robert Forrant and The ConversationSeptember 7, 2026

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Trump removes chairs for TSA agents, saying they ‘must meet fitness for duty requirements’

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By Sasha RogelbergOctober 1, 2026

Mike Rowe on America’s great tradesperson shortage: ‘I don’t care what your politics are. Math doesn’t care, either’

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By Nick LichtenbergSeptember 30, 2026

Investors thought they were buying pre-IPO OpenAI and SpaceX shares. Their cash went to strip clubs, Bloomingdale’s, and shopping on Amazon, SEC alleges

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By Amanda GerutSeptember 30, 2026