By Daniel Maxwell, Professor Emeritus of Food Security, Tufts University
Alex de Waal, Research Professor and Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation at The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Luka Kuol, Adjunct Professor of African Security Studies, University of Juba
Merry Fitzpatrick, Research Assistant Professor of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University
Peter Hailey, Visiting Fellow, Tufts University
The impacts of a strengthening El Niño and the lingering effects of the war in Iran highlight two separate and seemingly unrelated global hazards. But in the Greater Horn of Africa, an area already beset by prolonged crisis and conflict, these factors are combining with…
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By Donovan Fifield, Instructor, Department of History, University of South Carolina
After the colonists declared their independence, designing a government was next. Three of the founding generation said the new government needed to account for the flaws in human nature.
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By Tariq Ashikhy, PhD Candidate in the Faculty of Business and Law, Bournemouth University
Hosting the Men’s Fifa World Cup is supposed to be one of the biggest soft power wins a country can score. When Germany hosted the tournament in 2006, it did so under the official slogan “a time to make friends”. It sought to transform its global reputation for being serious and reserved, presenting itself as a welcoming host instead.
Two decades later, the 2006 World Cup is still cited as one of…
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By Dipa Kamdar, Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, Kingston University
Melatonin is known for helping us sleep, but a new study suggests it may also ease chronic muscle and joint pain.
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By Josh Bland, ESRC-DTP PhD Researcher, University of Cambridge
Another tournament, another agonising chapter in English football’s long catalogue of glorious disappointments.
England were dumped out of the World Cup by Argentina following a capitulation that will echo through the annals of English footballing folklore. Having taken the lead just shy of the hour mark, this one really stung.
But the irony is that this late collapse has stitched another thread of continuity into the long tapestry of England’s footballing heritage.
As a researcher…
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By Sophia Kier-Byfield, Senior Research Assistant at Welsh Institute of Health and Social Care, University of South Wales
Sarah Wallace, Associate Professor Innovation and Engagement, University of South Wales
Research reveals young people aged 16 to 24 don’t always recognise what stalking is, particularly when it involves someone they might know.
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By Anna Monnereau, PhD Candidate in Music Copyright, Bangor University; Liverpool Hope University
Copyright is built on the idea that human creativity deserves protection. Legally, this is known as “originality”. The principle is simple: people create valuable cultural works and the law protects that effort.
But artificial intelligence (AI) is challenging one of copyright law’s most basic assumptions. In doing so, it may force us to rethink what we mean by intellectual property.
AI can now generate songs, images, novels and artworks in seconds. Many of these works are already being streamed, licensed and sold. This raises an increasingly important question: should works…
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By Richard Purves, Senior Research Fellow in Social Marketing and Health, University of Stirling
The 2026 men’s football World Cup has provided great goals, shock results and plenty of entertainment. It has also been extremely lucrative, earning Fifa billions of dollars in broadcasting rights, ticket sales and commercial sponsorship.
Those commercial partnerships include alcohol producers, whose brands have appeared across television broadcasts, digital platforms, social media and stadiums.
For example, Fifa has a long-standing sponsorship arrangement with the world’s biggest beer company. AB InBev owns Budweiser, which is the tournament’s official beer, and Michelob…
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By Irene Gammel, Professor & Director, Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre and Gallery, Toronto Metropolitan University
Toronto was both where Hemingway deepened his journalism and where he began honing the literary techniques that would shape his fiction.
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By Amnesty International
Three years after signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen migration cooperation with Tunisia, the European Union (EU)’s unchecked support for border control in the country continues to fuel serious human rights violations against migrants, asylum seekers and refugees, Amnesty International said today. The European Commission and Tunisia signed the deal on 16 July 2023, despite clear public documentation of a sharply deteriorating human rights situation in the country, including racist abuse and unlawful collective expulsions by the authorities that often involved torture […]…
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