By Nathan Abrams, Professor of Film Studies, Bangor University
Jewish history in Wales stretches back centuries, yet its significance remains little known outside specialist circles.
My new book uncovers how Jews, Judaism, Israel and Palestine have played a far greater role in Welsh history and imagination than many realise. In fact, they have helped shape ideas of nationhood, identity and belonging over centuries.
In her 2012…
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By Frank Ledwidge, Senior Lecturer in Military Strategy and Law, University of Portsmouth
The war in Ukraine has now exceeded the first world war in duration. And while the comparison between these two conflicts is imperfect, it is becoming difficult to ignore.
Some of the similarities are obvious. At the tactical level, the conflict in Ukraine has witnessed the return of artillery as the dominant arm of battle.
During much of the first year of the war, artillery…
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By Sanggay Tashi, Ph.D. Candidate in Cultural Anthropology, University of Colorado Boulder
China is building some of the world’s largest solar farms on the Tibetan Plateau, where nomadic people have grazed herds of animals for millennia.
It’s not the first time Tibetan regions have become a major source of renewable energy in China. Since the mid-1990s, many Tibetan communities have lived alongside hydropower stations.
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By Agamemnon Crassidis, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology
Today, almost anyone who flies a drone must maintain visual contact with it at all times, a practice known as visual line of sight. This requirement severely restricts how far craft can fly. When the Federal Aviation Administration rule changes allowing people to fly their drones beyond…
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By Karli Swenson, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Anschutz
The obstetrics staff was surprised the first time it happened in June 2025. A pregnant woman who was dependent on methamphetamine arrived at the hospital in labor. She showed an image of graffiti spray-painted on a bridge in downtown Denver that read “Have your baby at Lutheran.” She was scared, and in pain, but wanted to be somewhere she felt safe asking for help.
Not long after, it happened again.
Another laboring woman with the same image on her phone. Apparently, word was getting around that this labor and delivery unit did things differently.
The women…
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By Carolyn Zola, Lecturer, Department of History, California State University, East Bay
Dina escaped from slavery and sold pepper pot stew on the streets of Philadelphia, while her enslaver tried to recapture her.
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By Michael Helbing, Adjunct Professor of Law, Penn State
Communities across the state are demanding to know how proposed data centers would affect their electric and water bills, landscapes and quality of life.
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By Michelle D. Paranzino, Director, Latin America Studies Group; Associate Professor of Strategy & Policy, US Naval War College
The nebulous nature of narco-terrorism has allowed presidents from Reagan to Trump to deploy the term when it serves broader political goals in Latin America.
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By Joanna Fong-Isariyawongse, Associate Professor of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh
Young people and those with trauma, such as veterans, are especially vulnerable to the difficulty of stopping cannabis use for sleep.
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By Aram Goudsouzian, Bizot Family Professor of History, University of Memphis
The modern rhetorical and political resistance to racial equality finds its roots in the conspiratorial segregationists of the civil rights era.
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