Parents in the United States are increasingly turning to new living models to feel less alone and closer to friends and childcare. Professor of Russian and East European Studies Kristen Ghodsee says this might be because Americans “isolate ourselves so profoundly” when they have kids.

A dive into the world of sibling dynamics cites work by Annette Lareau, Professor of Sociology, who has found that those in working-class and poorer homes partake in fewer extracurriculars. As a result, they spend more time together, influencing each other in outsized ways.

Alan Charles Kors Term Associate Professor of History Benjamin Nathans has won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize winner for general nonfiction, honoring his latest work, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement. The book “explores the idea and practice of rights and the rule of law in the setting of ‘mature socialism.’”

Melissa Wilde, Davidson Kennedy Professor in the College, says it’s difficult to predict what cardinals will consider as the conclave to choose a new pope goes on. “It will not be another Latin American, it will most likely not be an American, but this could be the wild card,” she says. “I would say Asian or African, if not one of them, American, if not one of them, an Italian.”