By Arie Perliger, Director of Security Studies and Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, UMass Lowell
Violence in the West Bank has intensified since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and the ensuing war in Gaza.
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By Nicole Amoyal Pensak, Researcher of Caregiver Stress Management and Clinical Psychologist, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Andrew Novick, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Decades of research show that SSRIs can be safely used during pregnancy. Meanwhile, untreated depression during pregnancy is associated with poor health outcomes like preterm birth and preeclampsia.
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By Michael Childers, Associate Professor of History, Colorado State University
The Trump administration’s cuts to the National Park Service’s budget and staffing have raised concerns among park advocates and the public that the administration is aiming to further privatize the national parks.
The nation has a long history of similar efforts, including a wildly unpopular 1980 attempt…
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By Jay L. Zagorsky, Associate Professor Questrom School of Business, Boston University
Recently, Delta Air Lines announced it would expand its use of artificial intelligence to provide individualized prices to customers. This move sparked concern among flyers and politicians. But Delta isn’t the only business interested in using AI this way. Personalized pricing
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By Elizabeth W. Covington, Associate Clinical Professor of Pharmacy, Auburn University
As many as 1 in 5 Americans believe they have a penicillin allergy, but just a tiny fraction actually do. In recent years, it’s gotten a lot easier to find out.
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By Alex Robson, Deputy Chair, Productivity Commission, and Adjunct Professor, Queensland University of Technology
Productivity growth is a key driver of improvements in living standards. But in Australia over the last decade, output per hour worked grew by less than a quarter of its 60-year average.
We urgently need to turn this around.
That’s why the government has asked the Productivity Commission – where I am deputy chair – to conduct five inquiries and identify priority reforms.
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By Scott Lucas, Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
A new vision for Middle East peace emerged this week which proposes the withdrawal of Israel from Gaza and the West Bank, the disarming and disbanding of Hamas and the creation of a unified Palestinian state. The plan emerged from a “high-level conference” in New York on July 29, which assembled representatives of 17 states, the European Union and the Arab League.
The
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By Richard Bale, Director of Academic Development and Research, Associate Professor, The University of Law
Tiffany Chiu, Principal Teaching Fellow in Educational Development, Academic Head of StudentShapers, Imperial College London
The Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act, which comes into force on August 1 2025, means universities in England now have a new duty to uphold “robust” strategies to ensure freedom of speech on campus.
To support universities in navigating the boundaries of lawful and unlawful speech, universities regulator the Office for…
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By Eric Heinze, Professor of Law and Humanities, Queen Mary University of London
The Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 comes into force throughout England on August 1 2025. Designed to stop universities from censoring controversial or unpopular ideas, the law gives the Office for Students responsibility for ensuring institutions comply.
This law will mean that many universities will have to change the way they approach free speech.
When it…
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By Stephan Blum, Research associate, Institute for Prehistory and Early History and Medieval Archaeology, University of Tübingen
Michael La Corte, Research Associate, Curation and Communication, University of Tübingen
Somewhere between hero and hustler, family man and philanderer, king and con artist, Odysseus is one of ancient literature’s most complex figures. In the Iliad, he is the mastermind behind the Trojan horse.
In Homer’s Odyssey, he is the protagonist of a ten-year journey home – one that sees him encounter gods, monsters, temptations and profound moral dilemmas. Next year, he will be the hero of a new Christopher Nolan epic, and played…
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