By Shannon A. Bowen, Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of South Carolina
A crisis communications expert looks at how the Trump administration handled the massive disruption to the nation’s air travel when all planes were grounded on Nov. 13, 2026.
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By Masudul Zarif
Mozambique faces an educational paradox: While the use of artificial intelligence is being debated, thousands of students still learn outdoors, without basic infrastructure or internet access.
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By Joseph J. Gonzalez, Associate Professor of Global Studies, Appalachian State University
Cuba is unlikely to be a huge priority for incoming Democrats, and the Trump administration is unlikely to change its maximum pressure approach.
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By Global Voices Eurasia
Bahruz Samadov: “The selective attitude to the human rights issues and turning the blind eye to our suffering endangers the democratic security of the US itself, not to mention its international image.”
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Friday, November 13, 2026
The following is a statement attributable to ICRC President Mirjana Spoljaric on autonomous weapons ahead of the seventh review conference of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Shawan Jabarin, head of the al-Haq human rights group, at the organization's offices in the West Bank city of Ramallah, October 23, 2021. © 2021 Majdi Mohammed/AP Photo (Beirut) – Israeli authorities on November 13, 2026, imposed an international travel ban on Shawan Jabarin, the head of Al-Haq, a leading Palestinian human rights organization in the occupied West Bank. The travel ban comes in the context of increasing attacks against Palestinians and civil society groups in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Al-Haq, along with the Palestinian Centre…
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By Daria Dergacheva
With the proliferation of generative AI, disinformation and propaganda campaigns have become increasingly sophisticated. Armenia’s experience shows how they operate in a country moving away from its longstanding reliance on Russia.
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By A.R.E. Taylor, Senior Lecturer in Communications, University of Exeter
Friday the 13th turned out to be very unlucky indeed for Microsoft. A major outage of the tech giant’s services put a halt to digital communication for millions across the world.
So after UK government warnings to prepare for a possible cyber-attack, perhaps the bigger threat to the online world is simply the fragile design of internet infrastructure.
That fragility was plain to see on November 13. Emails and video calls stopped…
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By Andrew C. Manning, Visiting Professor of Carbon Cycle Science, Rochester Institute of Technology
Andrew J. Watson, Professor of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Exeter
Eric J. Morgan, Project Scientist in Geosciences, University of California, San Diego
A method for measuring the world’s crucial carbon sinks finds that the ocean’s so-far-increasing ability to help might taper off in the future.
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By Doug Jacobson, University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University
When one email service goes down, others don’t stop trying to send emails to users of the affected service. The result is snarled traffic that takes time to clear up.
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