By R. Grant Gilmore III, Director, Historic Preservation and Community Planning Program, College of Charleston
The American Revolution was won not just by ideals and armies, but by the strategic trade networks of a small Caribbean port.
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By Michael Bruening, Professor of History, Missouri University of Science and Technology
William Tyndale’s translation, published in 1526, was based on a then-radical idea: Anyone should be able to read the Bible in their own language.
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By Iqbal Akhtar, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Executive Director of The East-West Foundation, Florida International University
Muslims were woven into both America’s founding population and its labor force, writes a scholar of Islam on the nation’s 250th anniversary.
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By Mark Axelrod, Professor of Environmental and Resource Governance, Michigan State University
Detailed data is useful for understanding and addressing environmental effects on people’s lives in ways that become difficult or impossible if only the broadest and blurriest picture is developed.
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By Anne Toomey McKenna, Affiliated Faculty Member, Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, Penn State
The World Cup is bringing visitors and AI-driven surveillance systems, but only one of those is certain to leave when the games are done.
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By Blessings Masuku, Postdoc Fellow, University of Pretoria
Colleta Gandidzanwa, Researcher in Agricultural Economics, University of Pretoria
From roadside plots to community gardens, urban farmers in Alexandra township, South Africa are growing food, earning income and coping with climate change.
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By Timothy Krupnik, Director - CGIAR Scaling for Impact, CGIAR
The world’s food systems face real and urgent challenges. These include climate change, nutrition insecurity, food safety, and unequal access to markets. Research has produced practical solutions to each of these that could benefit hundreds of millions of people. Too few are moved into widespread use.
For years, the development sector has flattered itself with pilots.
A new tool works in a controlled pilot, a crop variety performs well in a field trial, and a digital advisory service shows promise in early testing. Evidence is written up, a case study or experiment is published,…
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By Ilias Trispiotis, Professor of Human Rights Law, University of Leeds
After eight years of successive governments pledging action, the UK government has finally published draft legislation to ban conversion practices in England and Wales. If enacted, it would create new criminal offences to protect people from attempts to change their sexual orientation or gender identity.
The proposals come as international momentum has grown. Earlier this year, the Council of Europe called on all member…
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By Imraan Valodia, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
Adam Hanieh, Professor of Political Economy and Global Development, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, SOAS, University of London; Independent Social Research Foundation
The vulnerability of the world economy to oil prices was painfully visible in the first half of 2026 following the US and Israel war against Iran. The power of this commodity to upend economies has been apparent before. In his recently published book Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the…
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By Ruairidh Macleod, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford
Stephen Shennan, Professor of Theoretical Archaeology, UCL
Did a major epidemic of plague trigger a prolonged collapse in Europe’s population in late neolithic times – from around 5,600 to 4,000 years ago?
In Europe, the neolithic is part of the stone age, spanning the time from the introduction of agriculture by migrant groups from Anatolia, up until the bronze age.
Scientists now know that prehistoric plague infected…
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