Tuesday, August 25, 2026
Members of the minority ethnic Rohingya Muslim group in Myanmar are “suffering, misery, and cruelty on multiple levels and across the country that is heartbreaking,” according to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
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By Liam Anderson
Women in Nampula turned the capulana into a symbol of resistance, while social media amplified protests, digital activism, and debates regarding state control and civic rights in Mozambique.
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By Diana Tung, Postdoctoral Researcher, FOODCIRCUITS, Universitat de Barcelona
Seth M. Holmes, ICREA Researcher, Department of Social Anthropology, Hub for Global Social Medicine, University of Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona; ICREA; University of California, Berkeley
In August 2026, a deep humanitarian crisis unfolded in Ceuta, a small Spanish enclave situated on Morocco’s northern coast. Around 72,000 people entered from Morocco over the course of two days. More than 100 drowned trying to cross into Spanish territory.
The vast majority of migrants soon returned to Morocco, but at present, as…
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By Qian Liu, Associate Professor, Law and Society, University of Calgary
The reluctance to use written legal documentation isn’t primarily rooted in Confucian values, as scholars have commonly argued. It’s a response to structural inequality.
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By Bradley Wood-MacLean, PhD Student, Political Science, University of Toronto
Semra Sevi, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, University of Toronto
The bigger movement in the data over the past quarter-century is at the other end of the age spectrum: A reliable base of older Conservative Party voters is largely gone.
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By Elina Moreno, PhD Student, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, University of Toronto
Yuthika Girme, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University
New research suggests seeing singlehood as an opportunity for growth can help people embrace new experiences and feel better about being single.
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By John J. Martin, Assistant Professor of Law, Quinnipiac University
Will an Aug. 24, 2026, Supreme Court decision lead to chaos in the midterm elections? An election law scholar dissects the decision, its background and possible effects.
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By Katherine Jensen, Professional Teaching Fellow, Business School, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
A recent RNZ analysis of political advertising on Facebook and Instagram revealed an intriguing pattern in who was seeing the ads.
Of more than 500 ads National ran this year, 92 were seen only by men, attracting up to 3.9 million views and costing as much as $21,000. Only one was seen solely by women – for a single day, at a cost of less than $100 – and the party says it didn’t place it.
ACT showed a similar tilt, with 14 ads seen only by men and…
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By Dawn ME Bowdish, Canada Research Chair in Aging & Immunity, McMaster University
When the sky becomes orange and hazy from wildfire smoke, modern humans are at greater risk than our earlier ancestors would have been.
This is because mutations that occurred tens of thousands of years ago made humans exquisitely sensitive to some types of air pollution.
Wildfire smoke includes two dangerous components: volatile chemicals, which include…
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By Derk-Jan Dijk, Professor of Sleep and Physiology and Director of Surrey Sleep Research Centre, University of Surrey
Anne Skeldon, Professor of Mathematics, Head of School, School of Mathematics & Physics, University of Surrey
For decades, the answer to “how much sleep does an adult need?” has been simple: eight hours. The idea dates back to the mid-19th century when the notion of eight hours of work, eight for recreation and eight for sleep first took hold.
But growing evidence suggests that eight hours may not be the ideal amount of sleep for everyone, as a new narrative review…
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