By Anna Walker, Senior Arts + Culture Editor, The Conversation
Caroline Walker is one of my favourite working artists. The observations in her work are so exquisitely rendered that they often feel almost uncanny. Such was the case when I encountered her 2025 painting Kitchen Table.
It shows a young girl, perhaps five or six, drawing with quiet concentration, a pink felt tip gripped firmly in her hand. In the foreground sits a bright yet somehow wild bouquet – a mix of polished pink blooms and smoky lilac thistles. The paper it was wrapped in, along with the scissors used to trim the stems, spills across the table.
The scene struck me…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Despite previously promising not to touch negative gearing and capital gains tax, this budget will include reform of both. The treasurer says it’s the right decision.
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By Christopher Niezrecki, Director of the Center for Energy Innovation, UMass Lowell
Ben Link, Deputy Director of the Ralph O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute, Johns Hopkins University
Zoe Getman-Pickering, Program Director of the Academic Center for Reliability and Resilience of Offshore Wind, UMass Amherst
Communities have been laying the groundwork for offshore energy projects for years and counting on the jobs and energy supply.
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By Eliza Zhitnik, PhD Student in Health Policy and Management, UMass Amherst
Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, Assistant Professor of Health Promotion and Policy, UMass Amherst
A large review of existing literature shines a light on the little-known condition and points to the need for a better understanding of who is at risk and how to prevent and treat it.
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By Matthew N. Hannah, Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Politics and Culture, University of Wisconsin-Madison
People have created their own online platforms to probe the millions of Epstein file documents, fostering new conspiracies that link to older ones like QAnon.
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By Kimia Shirzad, Associate Researcher and Adjunct Instructor in Recreation, Park and Tourism Management, Penn State
Jen Agans, Associate Professor of Recreation, Park and Tourism Management, Penn State
Young people don’t all contribute in the same way, and understanding the broader picture is the starting point for adults who want to support them.
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By Robert M. Thorson, Professor of Earth Science, University of Connecticut
Thoreau’s work as a pioneering physical scientist is almost invisible in popular culture, according to a geologist and Thoreau historian.
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By Kate Perepezko, Research Scientist, Miami University
Pennsylvania’s proposed paid leave may not be enough for sandwich generation caregivers, who are raising children and supporting aging parents.
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By Paul L. Morgan, Director, Institute for Social and Health Equity, University at Albany, State University of New York
New research shows that for every 10 boys identified with autism, only about two girls in a comparable situation were identified.
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By Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
The Supreme Court created a test 40 years ago to root out racial bias in jury selection. Here, a death penalty scholar explains why it’s not working.
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