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By Diana Orcés, Adjunct Professor of Government, School of Public Affairs, American University
Donald Trump obtuvo el 43% del voto hispano en 2024, frente al 35% en 2020, un avance importante para los republicanos. Ahora, a medida que se acercan las elecciones de mitad de mandato, los hispanos en Estados Unidos, independientemente de su afiliación política, están perdiendo la fe en el sueño americano, y las actuales políticas migratorias podrían explicar en parte…The Conversation (Full Story)
By H. Damon Matthews, Professor and Climate Scientist, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University
Global climate warming is expected to cross the 1.5 C temperature threshold — the lower limit of the Paris Agreement temperature goal — within a handful of years. This temperature increase shows no signs of slowing, and on our current trajectory, Canada is likely to experience temperatures 5 C above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century.

These are the headline messages of two major climate reports that were released earlier this month: The United Nations Environment Programme’s Limiting…The Conversation (Full Story)

By Vidya Mani, Associate Professor, Darden School of Business; Research Associate Professor, Biocomplexity Institute, University of Virginia; Cornell University
There’s not much diesel fuel lying around, and lots of people want to buy what is available, as well as what little is produced each day. It’s all a matter of supply and demand.The Conversation (Full Story)
By Larry Savage, Professor, Labour Studies, Brock University
Bill C-39 makes it easier for Ottawa to intervene when collective bargaining produces the very conflict that it is designed to manage.The Conversation (Full Story)
By Matthew Ades, Assistant Professor. Department of Medicine. McGill University, McGill University
Anthony Sandre, Assistant Professor, McMaster University
Sonia S Anand, Associate Vice-President Global Health, McMaster University
Leg pain can be a symptom of peripheral artery disease, a condition that is part of the same disease process that causes heart attacks and many strokes.The Conversation (Full Story)
By Alessia Noccaro, Lecturer in Robotics and Mechatronics, Newcastle University
Scientists are creating additional robotic arms, legs and thumbs to push the boundaries of what can be achieved by the human body.The Conversation (Full Story)
By Tom Birkett, Professor of Old English and Old Norse, University College Cork
Felix Lummer, Postdoctoral Researcher, University College Cork
Timothy Liam Waters, Postdoctoral Researcher, School of English and Digital Humanities, University College Cork
In the wake of the Alternative für Deutschland’s (AfD) electoral success in the Saxony-Anhalt state election, commentators both in Germany and internationally have expressed concern with the party’s extreme right-wing policies. Among these concerns are recent calls from party elites to adopt “remigration” policies.

The AfD has a lot in common with the far…The Conversation (Full Story)

By Fraser Cattini, PhD candidate, Avant-Garde Ireland, University of Liverpool
In Happy Days, one of Irish playwright Samuel Beckett’s best-known plays, the body of the protagonist Winnie is embedded in a mound of sand or dirt. During the first act, she is buried to above her waist and in the second, she is buried up to her neck.

In the stage directions, Beckett specifies the staging should feature an “expanse of scorched grass rising centre to low mound”, as well as “blazing light”. This is suggestive of a post-human landscape which has been affected by ecological disaster. (Full Story)

By Dipa Kamdar, Associate Professor in Pharmacy Practice, Kingston University
If you’ve spent any time on social media recently, you’ve probably found yourself wondering whether you should be taking a magnesium supplement. There’s no shortage of influencers listing all the benefits that different types of magnesium supplements have – from boosting brain function to helping ease anxiety and improving sleep.

Indeed, magnesium is an essential mineral involved in hundreds of processes in the…The Conversation (Full Story)

By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image MS NOW White House Correspondent Akayla Gardner prepares for a television report on a street corner outside the White House grounds in Washington, DC, on September 21, 2026. © 2026 Andrew Thomas/NurPhoto via AP Photo Donald Trump’s tumultuous relationship with US journalists and legacy media reached a new crisis over the past week, as the US President banned three prominent outlets from accessing the White House or being part of the traveling press pool that accompanies the president to his engagements. He also promised further bans on other “Fake News Media Outlets.”… (Full Story)
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