Despite still-low readings on the "fear/greed" index, Dogecoin is ripping higher in Wednesday's session. Sentiment does appear to be improving among retail investors, with Dogecoin's vast ...

The Applied Ethics Center at UMass Boston receives funding from the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. Nir Eisikovits serves as the data ethics advisor to MindGuard, a startup focused on ...

Were the Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show bushes actual people? Yes, they were, and they're now a sensational meme. The Super Bowl halftime show was everything we could have hoped for, including ...

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A few years ago, I climbed over a gate and found myself gazing down at a valley. After I’d been walking for a few minutes, looking at the fields and the sky, there was a shift in my perception.

Tens of millions of Americans are facing higher utility bills after regulators approved dozens of rate hikes last year. Regulators green-lit 43 rate hikes across the country in 2025, totaling $11.6 ...

State support for higher education this year crept up 1 percent nationally, according to the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association. It is the smallest year-over-year increase since ...

The attempted “Great Meme Reset” reveals how inescapable the incoherent internet has become. By Sophie Haigney “It’s really over,” says the TikToker @joebro909. “TikTok’s washed.” In the video — a ...

I n the past few years, my university has created a promotion ladder for full-time lecturers. Lecturers can now be promoted to senior lecturers and then eventually to principal lecturers. The process ...

At first glance, Amelia, with her purple bob and pixie-girl looks, seems an unlikely candidate for the far right to adopt as an increasingly popular meme. Yet, for the past few weeks, memes and ...

Initially, I surveyed the situation from the safe distance of a journalist who happens to also be a career professor and university administrator. I saw myself as an envoy between America’s college ...

This past week, the Trump White House posted an image on social media that appeared to show Nekima Levy Armstrong, a lawyer who was arrested after an anti-ICE demonstration in Minnesota, weeping ...