Fandom usually means tracking your favorite team for years − so why are the Olympics so good at making us root for sports and athletes we tune out most of the time?
The imagined community that American fans feel part of when they root for Team USA is no accident. The alluring dynamics of fandom, nationalism and dramatic storytelling have been carefully orchestrated to capture our attention, for better or worse, writes Noah Cohan.
Older teens in foster care can now choose their own families in Kansas
Patrick Fowler, professor in the Brown School
Eli Lilly Alzheimer’s drug approved by US FDA
Erik Musiek, MD, assistant professor of neurology
Drug can amplify naloxone’s effect and reduce opioid withdrawals, study shows
Susruta Majumdar, professor of anesthesiology
New Drug Approved for Early Alzheimer’s
Barbara Joy Snider, MD, professor of neurology
Opinion: The real significance of the Supreme Court’s ‘Chevron deference’ ruling
To the extent that doctrinal rules do make a difference, however, the result of the court’s decision will be that judicial interpretations in regulatory cases will be less insightful, less predictable and more dependent on the preferences of lifetime-appointed federal judges who are in no way accountable to the electorate, writes Ron Levin.
Is America a City on a Hill or a Nation on the Precipice?
Abram Van Engen, the Stanley Elkin Professor in the Humanities
Mini-Strokes, Gut Problems: Scientists See Links to an Old Bout of Covid
Ziyad Al-Aly, assistant professor of medicine
In a Volatile Term, a Fractured Supreme Court Remade America
Lee Epstein, the Ethan A.H. Shepley Distinguished University Professor; and Andrew D. Martin, chancellor
Here’s What the Court’s Chevron Ruling Could Mean in Everyday Terms
Rachel Sachs, professor of law
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