By Amnesty International
Responding to today’s decision by an Azerbaijani court to remand in custody prominent opposition leader Ali Karimli, following a raid on his home and his arrest by the State Security Service, Denis Krivosheev, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, said: “Ali Karimli’s detention is the latest outrage in the ongoing consolidation […] The post Azerbaijan: Arrest of opposition leader is further evidence of consolidation of authoritarian practices appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By John Joseph Chin, Assistant Teaching Professor of Strategy and Technology, Carnegie Mellon University
The takeover was the 11th successful coup d'etat in Africa since just 2020, and the latest destabilizing event in a country long plagued by governance challenges.
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By Ali Mirchi, Associate Professor of Water Resources Engineering, Oklahoma State University
Amir AghaKouchak, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine
Kaveh Madani, Director of the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, United Nations University
Mojtaba Sadegh, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Boise State University; United Nations University
Iran’s sprawling cities and irrigated agriculture, along with tight market controls, have left the country vulnerable to drought. There are steps that would help.
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By Ivano W. Aiello, Professor of Marine Geology, San José State University
The Moss Landing battery fire became an unintended experiment – showing how burning lithium-ion cells scattered nickel, cobalt and manganese over a protected marsh.
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By SoRelle Wyckoff Gaynor, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Politics, University of Virginia
The founders’ vision of the speaker of the House – a nonpartisan moderator and referee – has yielded to a far more powerful position. But has Speaker Mike Johnson given away his chamber’s power?
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By Cristobal Young, Associate Professor of Sociology, Cornell University
New York’s mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani, campaigned on a promise to raise the city’s income tax on its richest residents from 3.9% to 5.9%. Combined with the state income tax, which is 10.9% for the top bracket, the increase would cement the city’s position as having the highest taxes on top earners in the country.
It set off a…
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By Katherine Cobb-Pitstick, Assistant Professor of Child Neurology, University of Pittsburgh
Many different types of stress can trigger a headache. Luckily, there are treatments that can help stop your head from pounding.
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By Kobi V. Ajayi, Research Assistant Professor of Maternal and Child Health, Texas A&M University
Rates of preterm births, maternal deaths and other adverse birth outcomes are abysmal across the US, but there are clear strategies that could help the nation reverse course.
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By Wendy Z. Goldman, Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon University
Thirteen Jewish leaders and artists were killed on the ‘Night of the Murdered Poets,’ one of the campaign’s most infamous examples of persecution.
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By Sheneka Williams, Professor of Educational Administration, Michigan State University
Many high school seniors are currently in the midst of the college application process or are already waiting to hear back from their selected schools.
For high school students in rural parts of the United States, the frantic pace of the college application process can look a bit different. For starters, some of these rural students might not have large numbers of elite universities and colleges coming to admissions fairs in their areas. They might not have all of the required high school courses to attend some of these schools, either, according to
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