By Ben Pettis, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Communication Studies, University of Richmond
The action star’s death forced fans to reckon with his strange legacy: a real person with a complicated past, and a meme that made him into an immortal symbol of exaggerated masculinity.
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By Kevin Cope, Professor of Law, University of Virginia
In an 8-1 decision authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the Supreme Court held on March 31, 2026, that a Colorado law prohibiting licensed counselors from performing “conversion therapy” on minors was likely unconstitutional as applied to talk therapy. Justice Elena Kagan filed a separate concurrence, joined…
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By Ludovic Slimak, Archéologue et chercheur au CNRS, Auteurs historiques The Conversation France; Université de Toulouse
A recent article published and widely read in Science revealed that Neanderthal men preferred “Sapiens” women, but it fails to tell the whole story.
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By Jill Johnston, Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupation Health, University of California, Irvine; University of Southern California
Shohreh Farzan, Associate Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California
Southern California’s Salton Sea was once a resort playground, with sunny beaches, celebrities and people waterskiing on the vast inland lake in the 1950s and ’60s.
Today, those resorts…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Children accompany criminal group members in a march in the Delmas neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, May 10, 2024. © 2024 Pedro Valtierra Anza/Reuters The new campaign of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to recruit children as young as 12 for patrols and security checkpoints has been widely condemned. Military recruitment and use of children is a grave violation of children’s rights and a war crime when children are under 15.The world has come a long way in just a few decades. Today, we have treaties prohibiting the conscription or use…
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By Tactical Tech
Companies that work in political persuasion are experimenting with AI at scale to see how they can make the traditional influencing methods even cheaper, faster, more convincing, and more automated.
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By Amnesty International
Responding to the news that parliamentarians loyal to former Senior General Min Aung Hlaing voted him in as the next president of Myanmar on 3 April, Amnesty International Myanmar Researcher Joe Freeman said: “If Min Aung Hlaing thinks that an official civilian title will shield him from prosecution for the many grave violations of international law that he is accused of overseeing as head of the military, that is […] The post Myanmar: Presidency must not shield Min Aung Hlaing from being held accountable appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image People gather as Nigerian policemen arrive at the scene the morning after gunmen killed multiple people in an overnight attack in Angwan Rukuba, Jos North, Plateau State, Nigeria, March 30, 2026. © 2026 Reuters On the night of March 29, gunmen attacked the Angwan Rukuba community in Nigeria’s Plateau state, killing over 28 people and injuring many others, according to the state governor. The attack, which targeted a densely populated area, highlights persistent patterns of violence in northern Nigeria, where killings, kidnappings, and limited state protection…
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By Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
It’s not unusual for presidents to select attorneys general who share their views and policy preferences. But Trump has gone far beyond what is usually done.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image International Special Prosecutor Toussaint Muntazini (left) and former Central African Republic prime minister Mathieu Simplice Sarandji (right) at the inaugural session of the Special Criminal Court on October 22, 2018 that marked the official launch of the court's judicial activities. Photo courtesy of Special Criminal Court. The Central African Republic’s Special Criminal Court announced the death of its first special prosecutor, Toussaint Muntazini, on March 25 after a long illness. His passing is a profound loss for victims of serious crimes.Muntazini,…
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