By Conor Harrison, Associate Professor of Economic Geography, University of South Carolina
Elena Louder, Postdoctoral Researcher in Geography, University of South Carolina
Nikki Luke, Assistant Professor of Human Geography, University of Tennessee
Shelley Welton, Professor of Law and Energy Policy, University of Pennsylvania
Nearly a quarter of US households struggle to pay their energy bills at the same time as America’s social safety nets, including home heat aid, are disappearing.
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By Frank Bongiorno, President, Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences and Professor of History, Australian National University
The former senator rose to great influence during the Hawke and Keating Labor governments, but he career was also marked by controversy.
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By Abdulrosheed Fadipe
The rising insecurity in Kwara State and North-central Nigeria has been linked to different factors such as farmer-herders clashes, the emergence of new terrorist groups, governance gaps, and bandit spillover.
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By Anton Genza
The 2023–2029 Language Policy Concept aims to expand the use of Kazakh across science, IT, media, and governance, including the transition from the Cyrillic script to the Latin.
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By Laurie A. Garrow, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Major airports across the United States were subject to a 4% reduction in flights on Nov. 7, 2025, as the government shutdown began to affect travelers.
The move by the Federal Aviation Administration is intended to ease pressure on air traffic controllers, many of whom have been working…
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By Andor J. Kiss, Director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics, Miami University
James Dewey Watson is best known for his Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the structure of DNA. Controversy around who should be credited highlights the challenges of scientific collaboration.
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Friday, November 7, 2025
Nearly 100 people in Syria have been abducted or forcibly disappeared since January, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Friday, calling for greater accountability from the authorities.
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Friday, November 7, 2025
Independent UN human rights investigators have heard first-hand accounts of torture, unlawful detention and the forced transfer of civilians during their first visit to Ukraine in more than a year.
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By Javier Díaz Giménez, Profesor de Economía, IESE Business School (Universidad de Navarra)
Julián Díaz Saavedra, Associate Professor, Universidad de Granada
In early October 2025, with his political future hanging by a thread, France’s resigned-and-reappointed prime minister Sébastien Lecornu pledged to suspend unpopular pension reforms until 2027, when presidential elections will be held.
Socialist MPs declared victory. The French business community groaned. The…
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By Jeremy Howick, Professor and Director of the Stoneygate Centre for Excellence in Empathic Healthcare, University of Leicester
AI chatbots are outperforming doctors in empathy ratings. But the real story isn’t about robot superiority, it’s about how we’ve broken healthcare.
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