By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image An industrial plant in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley, October 17, 2023. © 2023 Eli Reed for Human Rights Watch March of Dimes issued their annual report on US rates of preterm birth on November 17. The findings are a gut punch.Rates worsened between 2023 and 2024 in 21 states. Preterm birth rates among babies born to Black women climbed to 14.7 percent, 1.55 times higher than the rate for white moms. For the fourth year running, fewer pregnant people began prenatal care in the first trimester in 2024 than the year prior.In Louisiana, the hike in preterm…
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By Abhimanyu Bandyopadhyay
”Hasina’s continued stay in India is reshaping bilateral tensions,” says Shafiqul Alam. Her interviews from exile have raised concerns in Bangladesh navigates a sensitive diplomatic moment before national elections.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Former senator Hollie Hughes has gone on a verbal rampage to defend Opposition leader Sussan Ley, accusing “the boys” who want her job of using prominent female colleagues in their efforts to undermine her.
Hughes this week resigned from the Liberal Party, saying as she no longer had the ability to support Ley in the party room, she believed she could best support her from outside the party.
She lashed out at Ley’s critics. “To be honest, I threw up in my mouth a little bit when I saw that big right-wing conservative group walking into the net zero meeting together [on…
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By Michael FitzGerald, Doctoral Researcher in Law, European University Institute
A summit on the future of the European digital sector comes after a shift in how Brussels sees its role.
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By Stephen Neely, Associate Professor of Public Affairs, University of South Florida
Kaila Witkowski, Assistant Professor of Public Administration, Florida Atlantic University
Over 40 million American adults – approximately 19% – live with an anxiety disorder, according to the National Institutes of Health.
Studies show this anxiety is most prevalent in young people. In recent years, social psychologists such as Jonathan Haidt…
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By William Cornwell, Associate Professor of Cardiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Life-changing advances in cardiovascular medicine enabled Cheney to live a productive life well beyond what many heart patients experience. But prevention is the most effective tool of all.
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By Shiri Melumad, Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Pennsylvania
Doing the mental work of connecting the dots across multiple web queries appears to help people understand the material better compared to an AI summary.
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By Michal Raucher, Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, Rutgers University
A court decision allowing Israeli women to take the Chief Rabbinate’s exams is the latest sign of growing recognition for women’s religious learning within Orthodox Judaism.
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By Gerard Toal, Professor of Government and International Affairs, Virginia Tech
Adis Maksić, Associate Professor of International Relations and European Studies, International Burch University
More than 100,000 people were killed in the Bosnian war. But the peace that ended it in 1995 sowed the seeds for ethnonationalism.
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By Morgan Underwood, Ph.D. Candidate in Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Rice University
Searching for life on other planets requires more than just measuring their distances from their stars. A future NASA telescope may help search for potentially habitable worlds.
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