By Sohini Sarah Pillai, Assistant Professor of Religion, Kalamazoo College
There is no single way to tell the story of the ‘Ramayana.’ People from different religious traditions and cultural backgrounds have reimagined the epic in countless ways.
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By Suzanne Eckes, Professor of Education Law, Policy and Practice, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Preston Green III, Professor of Urban Education, University of Connecticut
St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy is one of many cases in which religious schools have challenged the wall between church and state.
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By Maurizio Valsania, Professor of American History, Università di Torino
The conflict over the wisdom of Nidal Hasan’s public execution is not a new one. Americans at the republic’s founding debated – and doubted – whether watching someone die would teach a useful lesson.
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By Paul M. Collins Jr., Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science, UMass Amherst
If Republicans attempt to confirm a nominee, they will trigger a historic fight and hand Democrats the justification needed to reshape the high court.
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By Heather LaMarre, Associate Professor of Media and Communication, Temple University
Less than 30 days ahead of the 2026 midterms and almost nobody I talk to in Philadelphia is excited. Not my neighbors. Not my students or colleagues at Temple University, where I research and teach political communication and public opinion. Not even my politically engaged friends.
This mirrors the national mood in recent years: In a Pew Research Center survey, just 4%…
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By James Kintu, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Governance and Sustainability, UMass Boston
Women in Uganda’s sugarcane-growing Busoga region must feed their families but have little control over land or income. Fairer contracts could help change this.
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By Abeeb Babatunde Omotoso, Senior Lecturer at Oyo State College of Agriculture and Technology, Igboora, Nigeria and Extraordinary Senior Lecturer at Indigenous Knowledge Systems Centre, North-West University, Mafikeng, South Africa, North-West University
Abiodun Olusola Omotayo, Ass. Professor, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; North-West University
Adeyemi Oladapo Aremu, Professor, North-West University
Olaniyi Fawole, Full Professor, SARChI Research Chair and Director of Postharvest and Agroprocessing Research Centre, University of Johannesburg
Agriculture in the global south remains under pressure to produce more food while responding to climate change and resource constraints. Policy responses have focused on increasing production. But what about post-harvest losses? Globally, about one-third…
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By Arash Talebi, Professeur assistant, EDHEC Business School
Sylvain Riffe-Stern
A study reveals how discriminated consumers are more likely to turn to AI-based recommendations rather than human advice to avoid judgement or what could be uncomfortable conversations.
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By Lourdes Moreno Cazalla, Doctora en Comunicación. Autora del estudio para el Observatorio Nebrija del Español "El boom de la música urbana latina y la expansión del español a nivel global", Universidad Nebrija
According to the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE, under its Spanish acronym), a “piquete” is either a sharp object, a small wound, or a group of striking workers blocking access to a workplace. It is a word, generally speaking, of conflict and harm.
But when Puerto Rican musician Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio – more commonly known as Bad Bunny – intones on his song
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By Dolors Palau-Sampio, Full Professor of Journalism, Universitat de València
In Spain, an average of 44 evictions are carried out every day. While statistics like this are shocking, numbers alone rarely spark a revolution. Mass protest movements instead tend to rally around one compelling individual story.
This was exactly what happened with 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal, who has become so famous that she is known in Spain as simply Maricarmen. Following an insurmountable rent hike and a lengthy legal battle, she was evicted from her Madrid…
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