By Tazeen M. Ali, Assistant Professor of Religion and Politics, Washington University in St. Louis
Post 9/11, brown and sometimes Black Muslim characters were portrayed as ‘good’ only when aligned with US state power. Muslim filmmakers are trying to change that.
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By Jeffrey H. Cohen, Professor of Anthropology, The Ohio State University
Long stereotyped as food for the poor, the local delicacy’s gastronomical stature has grown as foodies flock to Oaxaca, Mexico, to sample the crunchy snack.
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By James B. Blasingame, Professor of English, Arizona State University
When a junior at an Orange County public high school in Florida visited the school library to check out a copy of “On the Road” by Jack Kerouac, it wasn’t in its Dewey decimal system-assigned location.
It turns out the title had been removed from the library’s shelves because of a complaint, and in compliance with Florida House Bill 1069, it had been removed from the library indefinitely. Kerouac’s quintessential…
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By Bernard Loesi, PhD Candidate in International Studies, University of Washington
Terrorism remains a persistent threat to nations around the world.
Indeed, the Global Terrorism Index, an annual chronicle of terrorism trends, found in its latest report that the number of countries that experienced attacks rose to 66 in 2024 – the most since 2018.
The rise of lone-wolf attacks made up 93% of fatal attacks across Western nations. An alarming rise…
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By James Horncastle, Assistant Professor and Edward and Emily McWhinney Professor in International Relations, Simon Fraser University
Samuel Zilincik, Assistant Professor, Strategic Studies, Royal Danish Defence College
Throughout its war with Russia, Ukraine is providing lessons to the West on what’s required to win a modern-day war. Will European and other states heed those lessons?
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By Jean-Baptiste Burnet, Lead R&T Scientist, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)
Leslie Ogorzaly, Senior Lead R&T Scientist, Environmental Virology, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)
The small country of Luxembourg acts as a living laboratory where new water monitoring technologies can be tested at scale.
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By Malak Benslama-Dabdoub, Lecturer in law, Royal Holloway University of London
If the UN security council won’t act and states including the US and UK continue to support Israel, this report is unlikely to change anything.
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By Stephen Clear, Lecturer in Constitutional and Administrative Law, and Public Procurement, Bangor University
The US president and first lady, at the king’s invitation, are on a state visit to the UK and will stay at Windsor castle. The event is laden with ceremony and glitz, but it also carries great political potential – for the host nation in particular.
Formal visits by foreign heads of state are generally aimed at strengthening international relationships. The invitation for this visit was handed to Donald Trump in the Oval Office, on camera, by Keir…
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By Charlotte Lee, Research Fellow, Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford
Being diagnosed with a serious mental illness like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder often brings an overlooked challenge: rapid and sustained weight gain. This side-effect can raise the risk of diabetes, heart disease and early death – widening an already stark life expectancy gap.
A new study my colleagues and I conducted, published in The Lancet Psychiatry, is the largest and longest to track these changes in real-world settings. Analysing GP health records of over 113,000 adults in…
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By Jenny Cooney, Lecturer in Lifestyle Journalism, Monash University
When Robert Redford launched the Utah-based Sundance Institute in 1981, providing an independent support system for filmmakers named after his role in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), it would transform Hollywood and become his biggest legacy.
Redford, who has passed away age 89, was already a huge movie icon when he bought land and created a non-profit space with a mission statement “to foster independent voices, champion risky,…
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