By John Broich, Associate Professor of History, Case Western Reserve University
Loyalty outranks expertise, and reality bends to the leader’s word. From Nazi Germany to Imperial Japan, fascist war machines collapse on the same contradictions.
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By Bruce Y. Lee, Professor of Health Policy and Management, City University of New York
Hannah Dimmick, Postdoctoral Researcher in Public Health, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Public Policy
The US lacks the capacity to treat long COVID, and HHS defunding is taking the country further away from being able to handle the country’s growing number of long COVID cases.
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By Scott Solomon, Teaching Professor of BioSciences, Rice University
SpaceX is poised to test its latest, most powerful rocket and to become a publicly traded company, all while under pressure from environmentalists.
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By Alejandro E. Camacho, Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles
Robert Glicksman, Professor of Environmental Law, George Washington University
Calls for the Supreme Court to give fossil fuel companies immunity from liability for climate-related damage misreads the Constitution, precedent and the role of courts.
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By Richard Sheehan, Professor Emeritus of Business and Economics, University of Notre Dame
While FIFA’s revenues have exploded as fans pay higher-than-ever prices, the relative share of money going to support global soccer development has decreased.
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By Sarah Webber, Associate Professor of Accounting, University of Dayton
Nonprofit fraud is in the news a lot these days.
Federal investigators in Minnesota prosecuted one of the largest alleged COVID-19 pandemic fraud schemes, in which several nonprofits and individuals are accused of stealing about US$250 million from a federally funded child nutrition program.
The defendants…
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By Sam Power, Lecturer in Politics, University of Bristol
Questions about a £5 million gift to the leader of Reform UK Nigel Farage from a crypto billionaire simply won’t go away. As someone who spends their life thinking, writing and talking about money in politics, I’ve been left with at least five questions that remain unanswered. These centre not just on the donation and Reform’s financial arrangements, but also on what it says about the system of political finance in the UK.
1. Should he have declared it?
It appears so. It was reported in late April that Farage…
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By Ed Krčma, Associate Professor of Art History, School of History and Art History, University of East Anglia
Jessica Barker, Senior Lecturer in Medieval Art History, Courtauld Institute of Art
Saint Benedict imagined a life of stability, community and measure; one devoted to the care for souls and, ultimately, to spiritual salvation.
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By Amarnath Amarasingam, Associate professor, Queen's University, Ontario
The mass shooting at an Islamic centre in San Diego is the latest in a self-replicating network of far-right violence in which each attack is designed to inspire the next.
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By Claudine Mangen, RBC Professor in Responsible Organizations and Full Professor, Concordia University
An organizational researcher argues that biases about who leads and who cares are baked into the structures of work itself, which is detrimental to women.
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