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The Conversation - Business

Featuring Trump on US coins and bills would put America in rare company - Jacques Hymans, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; University of Southern California

11 hours ago

Now that the World Cup is over, can host cities turn their investment into a lasting social impact? -- Yuhei Inoue, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Alessio Norrito, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Yohan Lee, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

11 hours ago

Why employers still place a premium on people skills, not AI, when they make hiring decisions -- Murugan Anandarajan, Drexel University and Cuneyt Gozu, Drexel University

11 hours ago

Why you let down your guard on ads when scrolling on social media -- Matthew Pittman, University of Tennessee

11 hours ago

Surge pricing is broken – but there's a smarter way to match gig workers with consumers -- Christopher S. Tang, University of California, Los Angeles; David Dobrzykowski, Auburn University, and Nicolo Masorgo, Miami University

13 days ago

A perfect storm of factors is driving up US produce prices, but shoppers can still save -- Elizabeth Canales, Mississippi State University

4 days ago

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5 months ago

Emerging Houthi–Al-Shabaab co-operation and the growing threat to Red Sea shipping -- Brendon Novel, Université de Montréal

1 month ago

What's in the price of a gallon of gas? -- Robert I. Harris, Georgia Institute of Technology

2 months ago

War in the Middle East made the case for renewables – what's happening in each country tells a harder story -- Ezgi Canpolat, Harvard University

3 months ago

UAE's OPEC exit has been long in the works – and may mark the beginning of a Gulf realignment -- Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Rice University

2 months ago

From Hormuz to the cockpit: How warfare and criminal activity undermine GPS and the race to safeguard navigation -- Zak Kassas, The Ohio State University

21 days ago

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3 months ago

Why better-off cities and towns see more benefits from data centers than rural regions -- Daniel Yue, Georgia Institute of Technology and Yiyang Zeng, Georgia Institute of Technology

11 days ago

Why many older Americans are losing ground even with an 80-year-old president -- Nina A. Kohn, Syracuse University and Naomi Cahn, University of Virginia

29 days ago

Federal Reserve independence secures an important, but not final, victory at US Supreme Court -- Elizabeth C. Tippett, University of Oregon

15 days ago

A rare bipartisan housing bill just became law – but Americans will still struggle with affordability -- Kirk McClure, University of Kansas and Alex Schwartz, The New School

10 days ago

Americans are not as well off as people in peer nations – US safety net's shortfalls show up in global data -- Stephen Bagwell, University of Missouri-St. Louis and Susan Randolph, University of Connecticut

25 days ago

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2 years ago

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1 year ago

Longtime Exxon CEO Lee Raymond's legacy of climate denial and misinformation lives on – a psychologist offers ways to counter it -- Joe Árvai, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

29 days ago

The 'right to repair' movement has a point, but consumers should read the warranty fine print first -- Wayne Fu, University of Michigan-Dearborn

1 month ago

AI data center boom is leaving consumer electronics short of chips − even though they don't use the same kinds -- Vidya Mani, University of Virginia; Cornell University

2 months ago

Some kinds of insider trading are perfectly legal – and they offer useful signals about a company's health -- D. Brian Blank, Mississippi State University; Dallin Alldredge, Florida International University, and Lee Biggerstaff, Miami University

21 days ago

When shareholder activists attack a company, its rivals may feel the heat too and change their ways -- Hadi Shaheen, College of Charleston; J.H. John Kim, College of Charleston, and Kamyar Goudarzi, College of Charleston

7 days ago

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2 years ago

Most American workers are checked out, and like 'The Office,' their bosses are the last to know -- Bob Batchelor, Coastal Carolina University

1 month ago

So your new 'co-worker' is an AI agent – here's how to make the best of your human-machine relationship -- Nigel Melville, University of Michigan

2 months ago

For the nearly 1 in 4 US adults with chronic pain, employers' expectations of a healthy body can lead to shame -- Beth Schinoff, University of Delaware and Elana Feldman, UMass Lowell

3 months ago

Hybrid work is not always the golden compromise employees expect – even as more companies implement it -- Radostina Purvanova, Drake University and Alanah Mitchell, Drake University

1 month ago

Workplace relief is coming for employees with symptoms of menstruation, perimenopause and menopause in Philly -- Ann Juliano, Villanova University

3 months ago

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2 years ago

When managing your money, take a chatbot's 'confidence' with a grain of salt -- Pawan Jain, University of Michigan

14 days ago

Your bank's AI just blocked your payment – what can you do? -- Pragati Awasthi, Drexel University

1 month ago

What oil, stocks and bonds are telling us about the Iran conflict and how long it might last -- Daniele D'Alvia, Queen Mary University of London

4 months ago

How polling failures, gambling legalization and political gridlock paved the way for the explosive rise of prediction markets -- Parker Bach, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

3 months ago

International aid groups are dealing with the pain of slashed USAID funding by cutting staff, localizing and coordinating better -- Sarah Stroup, Middlebury College and Jennifer Hadden, Brown University

5 months ago

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1 year ago

US giving grew 3% in 2025, crossing the $600B mark for the first time -- Jon Bergdoll, Indiana University

28 days ago

Nonprofit fraud: Amid high-profile prosecutions, an accountant explains what's really going on -- Sarah Webber, University of Dayton

2 months ago

Why Americans give: New research finds 5 distinct profiles for generosity -- George E. Mitchell, Baruch College, CUNY

3 months ago

America's nonprofit sector is pushing back against an 'authoritarian playbook' -- Christopher Justin Einolf, Northern Illinois University

1 month ago

Getting $750 a month didn't end homelessness – but our study shows it still improved the lives of homeless people -- Benjamin F. Henwood, University of Southern California

3 months ago

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1 year ago

Colorado was the first state to cap a drug's price – then a federal court stepped in -- Shweta Kumar, University of Kentucky

1 day ago

What are Trump Accounts for? They are more likely to help newborns start building nest eggs than help pay for their college education -- Jay L. Zagorsky, Boston University

2 days ago

Foundations can outlive their charitable missions – and that's a problem -- Thomas Adam, University of Arkansas

7 hours ago