Lady Gaga speaks during the Spotify: Little Monster Press Conference in New York City, March 2025

Lady Gaga’s Return to Form

With Mayhem, Lady Gaga offers (again) utopia on the dance floor—but is there anyone left in the club to experience it?
Atlas Mountains

Modern Nomads in the Atlas Mountains

For pastoralists who live and work in the mountains of Morocco, the lifestyle is difficult but worthwhile. It’s also threatened by economic and climate change.
Operation Morning Light team members, dressed in specially designed arctic clothing, begin the painstaking process of searching the area with hand-held radiation detectors.

The Trouble with Reentry

Reentry of space junk in the 1970s forced First Nations communities into a reckoning with Cold War geopolitics and a burgeoning envirotechnical disaster.
Calvin presiding over a colloquium in Geneva, 1549.

When Singing Was a Crime

Calvinist reformers in sixteenth-century Geneva frequently punished people for immoral behavior—like singing.
Gaslighting illustration concept with two hands with tangled string over someone's head

Audacity and Gaslights: Empowering or Zombifying Citizens?

Political scientists Eric Beerbohm and Ryan W. Davis consider how citizens can protect against gaslighting while staying open to audacious ideas of change.
Audrey Erickson, a member of the Arthur Murray Girls, a professional women's baseball team, USA, 1953.

Women Are Reclaiming Their Place in Baseball

Momentum continues to build in the movement to put women back where they belong: on the baseball diamond.
People working with digital database, organizing files in folders on laptop.

Expanding the Possibilities for Preservability

A new tool from NYU Libraries helps authors, publishers, and preservation specialists assess the preservability of evolving digital scholarship.
A dog riding the Moscow metro

Dogs of the Moscow Metro

The public attitude toward the adventurous dogs who have mastered the Moscow metro system has roots in an egalitarian Soviet culture.
Colourful overlapping silhouettes of children in classroom.

Privileged Poor vs. Doubly Disadvantaged

Attendance at elite high schools can shift the practices of college students from disadvantaged backgrounds to being closer to those of middle-class students.
Grains of sand

Sand, Science, and AI in the Renaissance

Well-researched stories from Noema, Nursing Clio, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.