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The Trump administration's anti-immigrant housing policy reflects a long history of xenophobia in public housing
(THE CONVERSATION) The U.S. housing market has been ensnared in a growing affordability crisis for decades.
The problem has gotten dramatically worse in recent years. Since 2019, home prices are up 60% nationwide. A record-high 22 million renters are "cost-burdened" – spending more than 30% of their income on hou ... (full story)
The Glozel affair: Hoax made science front-page news in 1920s France
(THE CONVERSATION) In early November 1927, the front pages of newspapers all over France featured photographs not of the usual politicians, aviators or sporting events, but of a group of archaeologists engaged in excavation. The slow, painstaking work of archaeology was rarely headline news. But this was no ordinary dig.
The arc ... (full story)
You've just stolen a priceless artifact – what happens next?
(THE CONVERSATION) The high-profile heist at the Louvre in Paris on Oct 19, 2025, played out like a scene from a Hollywood movie: a gang of thieves steal an assortment of dazzling royal jewels on display at one of the world's most famous museums.
But with the authorities hot in pursuit, the robbers still have more work to do: Ho ... (full story)
Future of nation's energy grid hurt by Trump's funding cuts
(THE CONVERSATION) The Trump administration's widespread cancellation and freezing of clean energy funding is also hitting essential work to improve the nation's power grid. That includes investments in grid modernization, energy storage and efforts to protect communities from outages during extreme weather and cyberattacks. Ending ... (full story)
The lost history of Latin America's role in averting catastrophe during the Cuban missile crisis
(THE CONVERSATION) Sixty-three years ago, President John F. Kennedy single-handedly brought the world back from the brink of nuclear war by staring down Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev over the Cuban missile crisis. At least, so goes a standard U.S.-centric interpretation of events.
But despite the narrative of presidential stre ... (full story)