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The Conversation - Business

Supreme Court considers how much states can protect consumers when federal agencies won't - Sarah J. Morath, Wake Forest University

14 hours 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

1 day ago

What we lose when artificial intelligence does our shopping -- Mark Bartholomew, University at Buffalo and Samuel Becher, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington

6 days ago

Perseverance doesn't always pay off for companies – sometimes it's better to 'fail fast' -- Scott Friend, University of Dayton and Kumar Rakesh Ranjan, EDHEC Business School

2 days ago

Global supply chains cause environmental harm, but they can help repair it too -- Minelle Silva, University of Manitoba; Jia Yen Lai, Monash University, and Lee Matthews, University of Nottingham

1 day ago

Trump administration's indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center breaks with norms – and may lack evidence of criminal wrongdoing -- Beth Gazley, Indiana University

3 days ago

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2 months ago

Hormuz closure threatens the global food supply – why grocery price hikes are coming -- Aya S. Chacar, Florida International University

22 days 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

1 month ago

Soaring gas prices prompt Trump to ease oil tanker rules – how waiving the Jones Act affects what you pay at the pump -- Christopher Niezrecki, UMass Lowell

1 month ago

Why the damage to Qatar's gas infrastructure could push costs higher for years to come -- Adi Imsirovic, University of Oxford

1 month ago

Targeting of energy facilities turned Iran war into worst-case scenario for Gulf states -- Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Rice University

1 month ago

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1 month ago

Sorry, Tampa Bay, mixed-use districts don't reverse the dismal economics of sports venues -- J.C. Bradbury, Kennesaw State University

7 days ago

Food aid doesn't make people loafers – research shows government benefits help low-income people find jobs -- Claudia Strauss, Pitzer College

1 month ago

25 million people lost Medicaid after the COVID-19 pandemic — and state policies shaped who stayed covered -- Aparna Soni, Indiana University

16 days ago

Signs of economic instability emerge in Oakland County, one of Michigan's wealthiest -- Grigoris Argeros, Eastern Michigan University and Jordyn Gerwig, Eastern Michigan University

8 days ago

Health care sticker shock has become the norm, but talking to your doctor about costs can help you rein it in -- Helen Colby, Indiana University and Deidre Popovich, Texas Tech University

17 days ago

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1 year ago

Why women in groups face a 'collaboration penalty' that solo female stars like Taylor Swift and Coco Gauff escape -- David Hekman, University of Colorado Boulder and Mallory Decker, University of Colorado Boulder

14 days ago

Hosting the NFL draft is less about weekend beer sales and more about long-term brand value -- Tim Derdenger, Carnegie Mellon University

20 days ago

What I learned from analyzing 789 'Shark Tank' pitches: Narcissists get funding if they're not arrogant or defensive -- Paul Sanchez Ruiz, Iowa State University

24 days ago

Cannabis legalization spurs innovation, but not always in ways that benefit patients or public health -- Lucy Xiaolu Wang, UMass Amherst and Nathan W. Chan, UMass Amherst

16 days ago

Why Americans are buying $22 smoothies despite feeling terrible about the economy -- Yuanyuan (Gina) Cui, Coastal Carolina University and Patrick van Esch, Coastal Carolina University

22 days ago

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1 year ago

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

1 month 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

1 month ago

Big beautiful refund? 5 tax code changes that may put more money in your pocket -- Jim Franklin, Western Governors University School of Business

1 month ago

Family-friendly workplaces are great − but 'families of 1' get ignored -- Peter McGraw, University of Colorado Boulder

1 month ago

Denmark's generous child care and parental leave policies erase 80% of the 'motherhood penalty' for working moms -- Alexandra Killewald, University of Michigan

2 months ago

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1 year ago

How personal finance advice is getting political, thanks to 'finfluencers' -- Maximilian Brichta, University of Virginia

7 days 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

1 month ago

SpaceX and OpenAI IPOs are unlikely to bring skyrocketing returns that Amazon and Apple did, as companies go public later in life and early investors cash out -- Brad Badertscher, University of Notre Dame

27 days 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

28 days 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

3 months ago

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1 year 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

28 days ago

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

24 days ago

Gifts from top 50 US philanthropists jumped to $22.4B in 2025 − Mike Bloomberg, Bill Gates and the estate of Paul Allen lead a list of the biggest givers -- David Campbell, Binghamton University, State University of New York; Hans Peter Schmitz, North Carolina State University, and Lindsey McDougle, Rutgers University - Newark

1 month ago

With less charitable giving flowing directly to charities, a tax policy scholar suggests some policy fixes -- Ray Madoff, Boston College

3 months ago

Donor-advised funds have more money than ever – and direct more of it to politically active charities -- Brian Mittendorf, The Ohio State University and Helen Flannery, University of Vermont

4 months ago

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1 year ago

Why Michael Jackson's daughter, Paris, won't stop 'til she gets enough from his estate -- Reid Kress Weisbord, Rutgers University - Newark and Naomi Cahn, University of Virginia

29 days ago

Thousands of employed Colorado workers need SNAP benefits to make ends meet -- Jennifer C. Greenfield, University of Denver

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