By Eric Palkovacs, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz
As the national conversation shifts to political finger-pointing, an important environmental question deserves careful scrutiny: What is the best approach to maintain urban water quality?
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Peter Magyar, Prime Minister of Hungary, delivers a speech in the Hungarian Parliament before the agenda in Budapest, June 15, 2026. © 2026 Balint Szentgallay/NurPhoto via AP (London, June 25, 2026) – The new Hungarian government’s plan to make sweeping changes to key institutions through a rushed 17th amendment to the constitution, risks halting advances to restore the rule of law, Human Rights Watch said today. The plans to remove the country’s president and the head of its constitutional court lack due process safeguards.If the 17th Amendment is…
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By Amnesty International
Nearly four months after the U.S. airstrike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Iran, which killed more than 150 people, including 120 children, Amnesty International USA’s National Director for Government Relations & Advocacy, Amanda Klasing, said: “It’s been four months since the deadliest U.S. airstrike against civilians in recent memory, yet we are no closer to getting answers from U.S. authorities about why this happened and who was responsible. What is taking so long? The public […] The post USA: Four months after horrific Minab school airstrike, accountability…
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By Manuel A. Gómez, Professor of Law, Florida International University
One law generally shields foreign governments and companies they own from lawsuits in US courts. Another lets many Cuban cases proceed, according to a new ruling.
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By Krupa Shandilya, Associate Professor of Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies, Amherst College
AI-powered translation tools are certainly impressive. But there is an important frontier for translation technology, one AI might never be able to breach: the poem.
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By Sean Murphy, Director, Center for Story, Shenandoah University
Young poets wrestled with loneliness, fractured families, violence and other challenges – but also showed an unwillingness to surrender to despair.
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By Sharon Jean-Philippe, Professor of Urban Forestry, University of Tennessee
Students who study forestry will read about trees, but they do not often get the chance to climb up into a tree, feel its branches and see its leaves up close.
After observing how many forestry courses gave students limited chances to learn through hands-on experiences, I attended a workshop to gain tree-climbing skills and brought some of these lessons back to my own university’s new urban forestry program.
Forestry…
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By Ryan McGrady, Senior Research Fellow, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, UMass Amherst
This year, Wikipedia is celebrating 25 years as the internet’s encyclopedia that anyone can edit. In its first decade, the quirky experiment for passionate nerds exploded in popularity. It became a ubiquitous information resource and a homework helper for schoolkids, much to the dismay of skeptical teachers.
In its second decade, amid the public’s growing dissatisfaction with…
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By Mary Ogborn, Astrophysics PhD Candidate, Penn State
Black holes are a mainstay in sci-fi movies. How do these massive black holes, spread throughout our universe, actually work in real life?
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By Monica Duffy Toft, Professor of International Politics and Director of the Center for Strategic Studies, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
A strong deal would build in real penalties for going back to war: automatic, reversible costs that fall on anyone who restarts the fighting.
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