By Robert A. Strong, Senior Fellow, Miller Center, University of Virginia
Surprising midterm elections that create new majorities on Capitol Hill look to be revolutions in the days after they occur. Years later, they often appear to be more complex – and less significant.
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By Jude Pierre Louis
After the first of two deadly gang attacks this year, the Kenscoff community, like many other regions in the country, turned from peaceful living to being held to ransom.
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By Amnesty International
Following clarification by Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General, that the vast majority of Salvadoran military personnel recently deployed to Haiti are not part of the Gang Suppression Force (GSF), authorized by the UN Security Council, and therefore fall outside the mandate and monitoring mechanisms of the United Nations Support Office in Haiti […] The post Haiti: The governments of Haiti and El Salvador must ensure that the deployment of Salvadoran military personnel respects human rights appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Soldiers participate in a commemorative march in Pyongyang, North Korea, on April 25, 2025, to mark the 93rd anniversary of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army. © 2025 KIM WON JIN/AFP via Getty Images United Nations Special Rapporteur Elizabeth Salmón addressed a UN General Assembly committee on October 27 following reports that North Korean authorities had increased the use of public executions, including for recent offenses.In her report, Salmón characterized the government’s use of the death penalty as “a criminal sanction [and] means of social, political…
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By Amir Keshtiban, Associate Professor in Critical Organisation Studies, York St John University
Research suggests movements organised around concrete grievances may find it easier to form electoral coalitions than those built around broad ideological visions.
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By Donald Barry, Professor Emeritus, Political Science, University of Calgary
Post-referendum, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith seems focused on a united Canada and attempting to stop the NDP’s surge in popularity. But attempts to gerrymander ridings are the newest controversy.
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By Anna Stubbendorff, Postdoctoral Fellow, Nutrition Epidemiology, Lund University
The food pyramid began in 1970s Sweden as a budget eating guide. Its redesigns since show how food advice is shaped by more than nutrition science.
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By Michelle Comber, Lecturer in Archaeology, School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, University of Galway
Popular media, from computer games to movies, often portrays medieval life as being dominated by fighters and farmers. In these depictions, there’s little evidence of a world beyond political struggle and simple subsistence.
Leisure activities are often overlooked, despite the fact that they existed in one form or another at most – if not all – levels of medieval society. The intangible nature of much of the evidence, often coupled with poor preservation of physical objects, can help explain this.
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By Ed Armston-Sheret, Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Ernest Shackleton is one of the most well-known polar explorers in history. He’s mostly remembered for his incredible leadership following the sinking of his ship Endurance in the Weddell Sea in November 1915, which saved his life and the 27 others on board.
Yet had you known Shackleton in 1895, his future fame as an Antarctic explorer would have seemed highly unlikely. At the time, he was an unknown officer in the merchant navy, and Antarctica meant little to him. He had never even put on a pair…
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By Meena Mehta Kotecha, Visiting Fellow, Psychological and Behavioural Science, London School of Economics and Political Science
Artificial intelligence is increasingly becoming part of everyday life and work. AI can generate information, summarise evidence and perform calculations. However, it does not remove the need for critical thinking and conceptual understanding.
Employers still need people who can evaluate outputs, recognise errors, interpret evidence and make decisions based on evidence. For example, an AI system might produce a convincing answer or graph. A person still needs to decide whether the information is accurate. Confidence with numbers, graphs and large data sets therefore remains essential.
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