By Janet McCabe, Visiting Professor of Law and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
As the Trump administration moves to weaken America’s air pollution rules, it is deploying new legal interpretations that are intended to tie the hands of future administrations for years to come.
In practice, the changes limit the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority under the Clean Air Act. The result allows EPA officials to ignore science, data and the adverse effects their decisions will have on public health and the environment.
But the new interpretations are also designed to apply not…
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By Hélène Nguemgaing, Assistant Clinical Professor of Critical Resources & Sustainability Analytics, University of Maryland
Alan Collins, Professor of Natural Resource Economics, West Virginia University
America was once the global leader in rare earth element production, but as processing moved to China, the US lost capacity and expertise. It can get them back.
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By Lynn S. Neal, Professor of Religious Studies, Wake Forest University
Christianity has inspired the design of many garments – with angels, the Virgin Mary and other sacred figures appearing on many designer outfits.
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By Gustavo E. Fischman, Professor of Education Policies and Comparative Studies, Arizona State University
Eric Haas, Professor of Educational Leadership, California State University, East Bay
Margarita Pivovarova, Associate Professor of Education Policy, Arizona State University
Most American adults will say that they most valued teachers who really knew them, cared about them and made learning relevant to their lives.
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By Amnesty International
Ahead of the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest semi-finals, in which Israel will participate, Amnesty International’s Secretary General, Agnès Callamard, said: “The failure of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) to suspend Israel from Eurovision, as it did with Russia, is an act of cowardice and an illustration of blatant double standards when it comes to Israel. Songs and sequins […] The post Europe: Failure to suspend Israel from Eurovision betrays humanity and exposes blatant double standards appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Mustapha Djemali. © Private (Beirut) – Five employees of the Tunisian Council for Refugees will stand trial on May 13, 2026, after appealing criminal sentences for their work assisting asylum seekers and refugees, Human Rights Watch said today. The Tunisian authorities should end the abusive prosecution of the employees, compensate them for their unlawful detention, and stop the widespread crackdown on civil society groups. Tunisian authorities shut down the Tunisian Council for Refugees in May 2024, arrested its founder and director, Mustapha Djemali, and…
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By Abdulrosheed Fadipe
Due to epileptic nature of the power supply, it is difficult to cope with the heat, especially during nighttime when the heat is intense.
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By Kat Henry, Lecturer and Researcher, Theatre Department, Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne
Mark Wilson’s novel version of Tennessee William’s The Glass Menagerie at the Melbourne Theatre Company doesn’t cooperate with historical readings of the play – but is exactly the kind of theatre we should be championing.
Wilson takes a much-loved classic that recollects family anxieties and subverts it, pushing into its dreamlike strangeness and nudging its audience to interrogate how memories are constructed.
This new version of Menagerie might well mark a defining shift for Melbourne theatre aesthetics, inviting real experimentation back into the main stage conversation.
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By Frank Gerits, Research Fellow at the University of the Free State, South Africa and Assistant Professor in the History of International Relations, Utrecht University
The 2026 Africa-France summit in Nairobi on May 11-12 is the first to be held in an African country that is not a former French colony. It is also the first to be held since the dramatic collapse of relations between France and a number of west African…
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By Sarah Cameron, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Griffith University
Ian McAllister, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Australian National University
Juliet Pietsch, Professor of Political Science, Griffith University
Voters have been growing dissatisfied with the major parties for decades. And they are no longer as willing to be told where to send their preferences.
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