Perspectives

There are factors that have absolutely nothing to do with the candidates themselves or national and international conditions, but can affect a close election. These are what you might call the random factors, writes Mark Rank.

Faculty members who run a lab have a research job and a leadership job, but they are often only trained for one of those, Jen Heemstra writes.

Clinicians and health systems must prepare for AI involvement in clinical care with some urgency, writes Philip Payne.

The need for students to consider the touch points between big moral questions and today’s political and financial issues is more pressing than ever, write Peter Boumgarden and Abram Van Engen.

If progressives hope to reclaim the Constitution, it will require the sustained generational effort of building coalitions, winning elections and reimagining the judiciary’s role. Mr. Schumer’s effort may be clever on paper, but it’s a distraction, writes Daniel Epps.

over the past half-century, American media has usually proclaimed that Black men and white women can fit the model of great presidents. But they have usually been just one or the other: a Black man or a white woman, writes Peter Kastor.

Liberty Vittert, professor of the practice of data science

There remains a critical need to invest in the health and well-being of Black communities through structural policy changes in education, health care and local government., write Seanna Leath and Sheretta Butler-Barnes.

Presolar grains help researchers understand nucleosynthesis in stars, mixing of different zones in stars and stellar ejecta, and how abundances of elements and their isotopes change with time in the galaxy, writes Sachiko Amari.

Scientists expect the Chang’e 6 samples to deliver not only key geologic knowledge about the Moon but also improve their understanding of Earth and the solar system’s early history, writes Jeffrey Gillis-Davis.