Sign in Subscribe

University of Colorado Boulder

Summer between high school graduation and college is a critical time for preventing risky behaviors – here’s how parents can play a key role

Summer between high school graduation and college is a critical time for preventing risky behaviors – here’s how parents can play a key role

Early summer is a valuable time for parents and young people to prepare for the transition to college in the fall. As first-year college students arrive on campus every fall, a predictable pattern unfolds. Rates of heavy drinking spike, social pressures intensify, and the risk of sexual assault, injury

Philadelphia’s 2026 sports calendar is packed – but fans are being priced out

Philadelphia’s 2026 sports calendar is packed – but fans are being priced out

(BOULDER, CO) Sports have been part of America’s big birthday celebrations in Philadelphia dating back to the Centennial Exposition of 1876, which featured an international regatta and helped establish Philadelphia as a global center for rowing. During the bicentennial festivities in 1976, the NHL, NBA and MLB all held

TMZ descends on Washington in a test of whether tabloid tactics can serve the public interest

TMZ descends on Washington in a test of whether tabloid tactics can serve the public interest

(BOULDER, CO) Headlines on sex, drugs, sports and divorce always attract eyeballs. In fact, the entire tabloid industry has been built on the public’s hunger for scandal and schadenfreude. TMZ is no exception. Through the years, it has become the go-to source for celebrity gossip, salacious affairs and

Trump’s coercive tactics in Latin America evoke era of gunboat diplomacy – and the rise of anti-imperialism it helped spur

Trump’s coercive tactics in Latin America evoke era of gunboat diplomacy – and the rise of anti-imperialism it helped spur

(BOULDER, CO) In Latin America, as in other parts of the world, the second Trump administration has adopted an increasingly aggressive policy. From drone strikes on purported drug traffickers to increased tariffs on imports, and from the blockade on fuel shipments and threats of invasion in Cuba to the Jan.

¡Ándale! ¡Arriba! Speedy Gonzales set to make his triumphant return to the silver screen

“¡Ándale! ¡Ándale! ¡Arriba! ¡Arriba!” Meaning “hurry up, let’s go,” the trademark slogan of Speedy Gonzales was, for generations of children, the first Spanish words they learned. But by the 1980s, ABC had pulled his cartoons due to concerns that his dress, accent and characters like his cousin, Slowpoke Rodriguez,

The long shadow of Paul Ehrlich’s ‘Population Bomb’ is evident in anti-immigration efforts today

The long shadow of Paul Ehrlich’s ‘Population Bomb’ is evident in anti-immigration efforts today

Paul Ehrlich opened his 1968 book “The Population Bomb” with a scene recounting returning to his hotel through a crowded Delhi neighborhood on a stifling night in the mid-1960s. He described the physical sensation of overpopulation: people eating, washing, arguing, begging – “people, people, people, people.” From that visceral opening,

How Denver’s Northeast Park Hill community reduced youth violence by 75%

How Denver’s Northeast Park Hill community reduced youth violence by 75%

(BOULDER, CO) Northeast Park Hill, a Denver neighborhood, has a long history of violence. During Denver’s summer of violence in the early 1990s, it was considered ground zero for gang conflict. From the late 1990s through 2014, violent crime in Northeast Park Hill declined from its peak in the