By Peter Rutland, Professor of Government, Wesleyan University
Elizaveta Gaufman, Assistant Professor of Russian Discourse and Politics, University of Groningen
A new, old specter is haunting the world: the bloodthirsty Anglo-Saxons.
Well, that is what the Kremlin wants the world to believe.
Take the new Russian state-backed film “Tolerance.” Released in September 2025 to a less than enthusiastic public response, the dystopian tale of moral decay in the West opens with a warning of an “omnipresent Anglo-Saxon liberalism” that will “cause the…
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By Canton Winer, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Northern Illinois University
One similarity between people who seek to reinforce gender binary and those who seek to expand beyond it is the idea that everyone has a gender.
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By C. Michael White, Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy Practice, University of Connecticut
This recall affects America’s most prescribed drug. It’s the latest in a series of concerning manufacturing issues that have come to light over the past few years.
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By Oleksa Drachewych, Assistant Professor in History, Western University
The aborted Hungarian summit between Putin and Trump reflects more on how Putin has tried to manage his relationship with Trump to gain other geopolitical benefits.
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By Dipa Kamdar, Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, Kingston University
Your Halloween sweets might do more than cause a sugar rush. Some ingredients can interfere with medicines or trigger harmful reactions.
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By Chloe Ward, Senior Lecturer in the History of British Art, Queen Mary University of London
Åsa Harvard Maare, Senior Lecturer in Design, Malmö University
Catherine Spooner, Professor of Literature and Culture, Lancaster University
Daisy Dixon, Lecturer in Philosophy, Cardiff University
Frances Fowle, Personal Chair of 19th-Century Art, History of Art, University of Edinburgh
Karl Bell, Reader in Cultural History, University of Portsmouth
Pippa Catterall, Professor of History and Policy, University of Westminster
From gruesome portraits to creepy critters, these are the paintings that have stayed with our experts long after their first glimpse.
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By James Cronin, Professor in Marketing and Consumer Culture Studies, Lancaster University
Alexandros Skandalis, Professor in Marketing and Consumer Culture, Lancaster University
Charlotte Hadley, Research Fellow, Lancaster Medical School, Lancaster University
Damaging as it is, food waste has an end point: it decomposes, breaks down, and returns to the soil. Plastic packaging persists indefinitely.
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By Adam Taylor, Professor of Anatomy, Lancaster University
On Halloween, children face a fourfold increase in pedestrian deaths and a 70% spike in life-threatening allergic reactions – here’s what you need to know.
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By Anthony Booker, Reader in Ethnopharmacology, University of Westminster
Was there any scientific basis to potions, lotions and salves that folk healers prescribed, or was it all just hocus pocus?
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By Paty Paliokosta, Associate Professor of Special and Inclusive Education, Kingston University
Plans to reform support for children with special educational needs in England have been delayed after the government announced its new policy would not be unveiled until 2026, rather than autumn 2025.
However, there has already been some indication of what the government will do. The education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, recently promised to set “clear expectations for schools” on how they work together with pupils’ parents. She also outlined her intention to…
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