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  • venezuelaEnergy

    From Latin America’s richest country 100 years ago to a founding member of OPEC, the long history of Venezuela’s oil and U.S. ties, explained

    By James Trapani and The Conversation
  • jon hammC-Suite

    When brands play hard to get: why you’re drawn to products that neg you

    By Jaclyn L. Tanenbaum, Karen Anne Wallach, and others
  • MaduroPolitics

    Could Venezuela be another Iraq or Afghanistan? Lessons from American statecraft in force and legitimacy

    By Monica Duffy Toft and The Conversation
  • TrumpPolitics

    From Trump walking away to ‘managed instability,’ Princeton expert on Latin-U.S. relations sees 5 scenarios for Venezuela

    By Robert Muggah and The Conversation
  • workFuture of Work

    Management professors who studied the dreaded work offsite say think twice about skipping it this year

    By Madeline Kneeland, Adam M. Kleinbaum, and others
  • researchCybersecurity

    2026 will be the year you get fooled by a deepfake, researcher says. Voice cloning has crossed the ‘indistinguishable threshold’

    By Siwei Lyu and The Conversation
  • PJ'sHealth

    Why you feel so anxious and stressed during the holidays, even though you’re probably just sitting around, watching TV and eating

    By Stacy Shaw and The Conversation
  • xmasEurope

    Christmas 500 years ago was a drunken 6-week feast that may have been considerably better than the modern holiday, medieval historian says

    By Bobbi Sutherland and The Conversation
  • jews/chinese foodArts & Entertainment

    American Jews, Chinese food and Christmas: The first connection was a 1935 gift of chow mein to a New Jersey orphanage

    By Samira Mehta and The Conversation
  • coyoteEnvironment

    Why coyotes won’t become the new wolves and what it has to do with moose and beaver

    By Alex Jensen and The Conversation
  • manAI

    It’s starting to look like we’ll never come up with a good way to tell what was written by AI and what was written by humans

    By Ambuj Tewari and The Conversation
  • treeCommentary

    Colorado is suffering from Christmas Tree inflation because Denver imports most of them—from North Carolina and the Pacific Northwest

    By Ali Besharat and The Conversation
  • the conversationNorth America

    Rural America is deeply misunderstood: We aren’t depopulating and we’re not the reason 2024 swung to Trump

    By Tim Slack, Shannon M. Monnat, and others
  • housing affordabilityReal Estate

    America’s mobile housing affordability crisis reveals a system where income determines exposure to climate disasters

    By Ivis Garcia and The Conversation
  • ZohranPolitics

    Political communication scholar on how Zohran Mamdani hacked ‘slacktivism’ to appear on your phone, on your street and in your mind

    By Stuart Soroka and The Conversation