Monday, April 28, 2025
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is becoming less common worldwide, but when it does occur, it is increasingly performed by professional healthcare workers, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Monday.
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By Anna Walker, Senior Arts + Culture Editor
Jo Adetunji, Executive Editor – Partnerships
Tove Jansson published her first Moomin book, The Moomins and the Great Flood, 80 years ago, in 1945. The story follows a family of hippo-like creatures called “Moomintrolls”, who become refugees after a flood washes away their home. Written at the end of the second world war, when millions were displaced, it reflects the struggles of rebuilding lives after disaster.
The official theme of the anniversary is “the door is always open”, reflecting the themes of acceptance, kindness and chosen families that run through Jansson’s books.
We’re celebrating 80 wonderful years of…
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By Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant, Professor, Political Studies; Director, Canadian Opinion Research Archive, Queen's University, Ontario
With women comprising more than half of the electorate, the Conservative Party of Canada’s focus this election on working-class men risked alienating female voters.
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By Meghan Wilson, Assistant Professor of American Politics and Public Policy, Michigan State University
John Kuk, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Michigan State University
Fewer people in Detroit are experiencing homelessness – but more kids are. Of those kids, a growing number have no safe place to sleep inside.
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By Paul E. Richardson, Professor of Biochemistry, Coastal Carolina University
Taking a bath may not be your favorite thing to do, but it will help keep you clean and healthy.
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By Jacqueline Reber, Associate Professor of Earth, Atmosphere, and Climate, Iowa State University
It’s extremely difficult to see how forces in a pile of sand are distributed between individual grains – a new experimental approach fixes that.
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By Jeffrey MacKeigan, Professor of Pediatrics and Human Development, Michigan State University
Since 1971, the US has led the world in funding cancer research and developing new treatments that have driven down death rates. This may soon no longer be the case.
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By Bob Bussel, Professor Emeritus of History and Labor Education, University of Oregon
As the Trump administration seeks to shrink the federal workforce, slash nonmilitary spending and curb opposition to its policies, it is taking steps beyond the firing and furloughing of thousands of government workers.
The government is also trying to strip hundreds of thousands of federal employees of their…
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By Michel Anteby, Professor of Management and Organizations & Sociology at Questrom School of Business & College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University
It’s telling that U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration wants to fire bureaucrats. In its view, bureaucrats stand for everything that’s wrong with the United States: overregulation, inefficiency and even…
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By Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager, Associate Professor of Critical Cultural & International Studies, Colorado State University
Miranda McCreary, Lecturer in Communications, University of Colorado Boulder
Italy’s prime minister was the only European leader to attend Donald Trump’s inauguration and was the first to visit the White House after US slapped new tariffs on its allies.
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