By Elizabeth Jane Beckett-Camarata, Professor of Public Administration, Penn State
A court has ordered Allegheny County’s first full reassessment since 2012. A finance scholar explains how assessed values and millage rates add up to your tax bill.
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By Ten-Herng Lai, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Stirling
Alfred Archer, Assistant Professor, School of Humanities and Digital Sciences, Tilburg University
You finally started an online conversation with a stranger you find attractive, yet you don’t really know what to say. They seem happy to talk, but you struggle to find the correct responses. You worry that their patience is growing thin. You pray for some guidance. Luckily, the solution could be just a few clicks away.
After all, you have the power of AI at your fingertips. Why not use it to come up with something fun and interesting to say?
Yet many of us might hesitate in this…
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By Jonathan Este, Senior International Affairs Editor, Associate Editor, The Conversation
Tens of thousands of Israeli expats flew home to vote in Tuesday’s election – most of them, according to media reports, hoping for a result which would end Benjamin Netanyahu’s prime ministership.
It looks as if they will be disappointed. We’ll know more when all votes are counted and seats allocated. But an apparent deadlock in the new Israeli Knesset is likely to mean that Netanyahu stays on as caretaker prime minister – for the time being at least.
At 77.7%, according to Israel’s Central Elections Committee, it was the highest turnout in the country’s history and the…
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By Natalie Wall, PhD Candidate in English Literature, University of Liverpool
Wicker is an unorthodox love story from husband-and-wife filmmaking team Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson. Based on Ursula Wills-Jones’s short story, The Wicker Husband, it blends satirical folk fable with elements of the modern rom-com.
The film, set vaguely in the middle ages, follows a lonely fisherwoman (Olivia Colman) who commissions a husband made from wicker (Alexander Skarsgård). Ultimately she falls in love with her handmade companion.
Colman’s fisherwoman is pitied for her unmarried…
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By Amnesty International
Wendy Galarza Wendy Galarza was shot after attending a protest in Cancún, Mexico. She almost lost her life speaking out for women’s rights in her country. She lodged a complaint against the police, though it took months for the State Prosecutor to accept her additional evidence, which included clothing showing bullet holes from the day of […] The post The letters that gave five human rights activists hope appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Jude Pierre Louis
Rébetha Charles didn’t initially see herself as an entrepreneur; everything grew out of her core commitment to Haitian farmers by buying their crops, and encouraging consumers to eat local products.
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By Kelly Sheldrick, Bat Ecologist & PhD candidate, Murdoch University
Rochelle Steven, Lecturer, Environmental Management, Murdoch University
Trish Fleming, Professor, Wildlife Conservation, Murdoch University
What’s that chirping sound coming through the detector? Did you feel something whiz past?
Those are just some ways people react when they encounter microbats for the first time. Microbats are small, mostly nocturnal mammals that use ultrasonic sounds to navigate and hunt at night. They do this through echolocation, producing calls and listening to the echoes that bounce back from objects and prey.
Their nocturnal habits, small size and fast flight can make them uniquely difficult to find…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Pauline Hanson has accused Anthony Albanese of “grubby dealings” in regard to an extra staffer to One Nation’s David Farley.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Lawyer and junta critic Mountaga Tall, Mali, 2025. © Private Six months after their abductions, Mountaga Tall, an outspoken critic of Mali’s junta, and his son, Cheick Mamadou Tall, remain missing, their fate unknown, and the Malian authorities silent. Every day that passes without news raises fears for their safety and deepens their family’s anguish.Unidentified gunmen abducted Tall in Bamako, Mali’s capital, on May 2. Tall’s son went missing on May 16 after receiving a call informing him that he could deliver belongings to his father, who was reportedly…
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Thursday, October 29, 2026
Myanmar’s human rights situation is “catastrophic”, the UN independent expert on the country warned at a press briefing Thursday, as the war spirals with no end in sight.
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