By Jennifer Selin, Associate Professor of Law, Arizona State University
The combined political and legal roles and responsibilities of the US attorney general can create conflicts. Some attorneys general yielded to political pressure from the president – many did not.
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By Global Voices Announcements
Every month, Global Voices will be choosing an urgent theme to explore in depth across all our regions. This month we're exploring how the widespread adoption of AI is playing out for the Global Majority.
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By Miriam Eve Mora, Managing Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute, University of Michigan
Toward the end of Netflix’s “Into the Manosphere,” documentary filmmaker Louis Theroux chats in Marbella, Spain, with British influencer Ed Matthews.
“The people who run the world, they don’t have our best intentions,” says Matthews, speaking in the language of the manosphere – where some influencers and viewers believe they have tapped into a deeper truth about reality and power. When Theroux asked who controlled all of that, Matthews shrugged and answered this complex question very simply: “The Jews.”
It’s part of a three-minute digression from the film’s focus on masculinity,…
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By George E. Mitchell, Professor of Public and International Affairs, Baruch College, CUNY
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By John Haddad, Professor of American Studies, Penn State
Hersheypark underwent a total transformation in the 1970s, when candy mascots and thrill rides replaced barn animals and old-timey recreations of Tudor England.
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By Ben Pettis, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Communication Studies, University of Richmond
The action star’s death forced fans to reckon with his strange legacy: a real person with a complicated past, and a meme that made him into an immortal symbol of exaggerated masculinity.
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By Kevin Cope, Professor of Law, University of Virginia
In an 8-1 decision authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the Supreme Court held on March 31, 2026, that a Colorado law prohibiting licensed counselors from performing “conversion therapy” on minors was likely unconstitutional as applied to talk therapy. Justice Elena Kagan filed a separate concurrence, joined…
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By Ludovic Slimak, Archéologue et chercheur au CNRS, Auteurs historiques The Conversation France; Université de Toulouse
A recent article published and widely read in Science revealed that Neanderthal men preferred “Sapiens” women, but it fails to tell the whole story.
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By Jill Johnston, Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupation Health, University of California, Irvine; University of Southern California
Shohreh Farzan, Associate Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California
Southern California’s Salton Sea was once a resort playground, with sunny beaches, celebrities and people waterskiing on the vast inland lake in the 1950s and ’60s.
Today, those resorts…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Children accompany criminal group members in a march in the Delmas neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, May 10, 2024. © 2024 Pedro Valtierra Anza/Reuters The new campaign of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to recruit children as young as 12 for patrols and security checkpoints has been widely condemned. Military recruitment and use of children is a grave violation of children’s rights and a war crime when children are under 15.The world has come a long way in just a few decades. Today, we have treaties prohibiting the conscription or use…
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