By Roger J. Kreuz, Associate Dean and Professor of Psychology, University of Memphis
During his 2024 State of the Union Address, President Joe Biden mentioned his presumptive challenger, Donald Trump, 15 times – but never once by name.
Instead, Biden referred to him as “my predecessor” 13 times. He also called him a “former Republican president” and a “former American president.”
These weren’t mistakes or memory lapses – the circumlocutions appeared in the president’s prepared…
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By Jörg Krieger, Associate Professor for Sport and Social Science, Aarhus University
Helen Jefferson Lenskyj, Professor Emerita of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, University of Toronto
For more than 100 years, international sport organizations have executed monopolistic power. Now, one has resurrected the founder of the modern Olympics to promote its controversial politics.
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By Nitish Boodhoo, Research Associate, Department of Pathobiology, University of Guelph
Bird flu in U.S. dairy cows has Canadian public health experts on high alert. With one human case identified in Texas, what is the likelihood of H5N1 influenza moving from birds to mammals to people?
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By Will Baker, Senior Lecturer, School of Education, University of Bristol
The peak of the cost-of-living crisis may have passed, but millions of families are struggling to buy enough food to feed their children. Experiencing food insecurity can be deeply damaging for children and negatively affects their achievement at school.
My research, alongside…
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By Tom Quinn, Senior Lecturer, Department of Government, University of Essex
Should Rayner have to stand down over a housing scandal, the party would have to run a distracting internal election.
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By Amalendu Misra, Professor of International Politics, Lancaster University
Mexico has witnessed two high-profile public lynchings within the space of two weeks. In late March, a woman suspected of murdering an eight-year-old girl in Taxco, Guerrero, was lynched by an angry mob. Then, on April 9, a policeman was beaten to death by residents of the city of Zacatelco after attempting to intervene in the lynching of two men suspected of killing a taxi driver.…
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By Tim Snelson, Associate Professor in Media History, University of East Anglia
This article contains spoilers for Sometimes I Think About Dying.
Director Rachel Lambert’s sweet and sedate film Sometimes I Think About Dying frames suicidal thoughts as a strategy for survival.
In the film, introverted office worker Fran (Daisy Ridley) takes solace in increasingly elaborate, surreal and aesthetic fantasies of her own death, including hanging from a crane, lying dead in the woods and being attacked by a python. But she isn’t seemingly suicidal. Or even depressed.
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By Sam Power, Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Sussex
Labour’s deputy leader has said she will resign if she is found to have committed a criminal offence in relation to her registered home address ten years ago.
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By Dan Baumgardt, Senior Lecturer, School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol
Gym equipment has multiple surfaces, nooks and crannies – all of which come into contact with many unwashed hands and sweaty bodies
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By Pierre Micheletti, Responsable du diplôme «Santé -- Solidarité -- Précarité» à la Faculté de médecine de Grenoble, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)
The EU’s pact signals the bloc’s most ambitious attempt to harmonise its migration policies. Yet, experts sound the alarm over its silence on search-and-rescue operations in the Mediterranean.
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