By Steven Caplan, Adjunct Instructor of Communications and Marketing, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Political ad transparency – who’s paying for ads and whether candidates stand behind them – is well-regulated for TV and radio. Online, not so much.
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By Lonni Besançon, Assistant Professor in Data Visualization, Linköping University
Guillaume Cabanac, Professeur des universités, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse
Scholars have long measured the impact of a paper by counting the number of times other scientific articles cite it. Researchers have just detected a new kind of citation fraud.
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By Stephen P. Leatherman, Professor of Coastal Science, Florida International University
While millions of Americans vacation on beaches every year to seek out sun, sand and the sea, many might not realize how dangerous digging holes in the sand can be. In February 2024, a 7-year-old girl died after an approximately 5-foot (1.5-meter) hole she and her brother dug in the sand collapsed in on her, burying her alive.
As a coastal…
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By Dae Hee Kwak, Associate Professor of Sport Management, University of Michigan
Talking about mental health can be difficult for anyone. It’s even harder for athletes, who are expected to exhibit mental toughness.
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By Dakota Rudesill, Associate Professor of Law; Senior Faculty Fellow, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, The Ohio State University
Under normal circumstances, Trump’s criminal record and other aspects of his life, including financial history, would disqualify him from getting access to classified information.
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By Rachel Hadas, Professor of English, Rutgers University - Newark
In the ugly spectacle of American politics, it’s hard to keep humanity in sight. But literature, says a poet and scholar of the classics, can remind us of what we know about growing old.
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By Philip Klinkner, James S. Sherman Professor of Government, Hamilton College
President Joe Biden is strongly reaffirming his commitment to stay in the presidential race – despite a growing number of calls from politicians and voters for him to step down, following a highly criticized debate performance in June 2024.
After Biden said in an ABC news interview that only “the…
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By Amnesty International
The Egyptian authorities must immediately lift the travel bans imposed against prominent human rights lawyers Nasser Amin and Hoda Abdelwahab in connection with criminal investigations into NGOs’ legitimate human rights work, Amnesty International said today. On 20 March 2024, after 13 years of investigations the authorities announced the closure of Case 173/2011, widely known as […] The post Egypt: Lift travel bans imposed on two human rights lawyers appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Asaad al-Ghamdi. © Private. (Beirut) – A Saudi court has sentenced a man to 20 years in prison on charges related to his peaceful social media activity, Human Rights Watch said today. The conviction is the latest example of Saudi Arabia’s likely transnational repression due to his family member’s activities abroad and yet another escalation in the country’s ever-worsening crackdown on freedom of expression and other basic rights.On May 29, 2024, Saudi Arabia’s counterterrorism tribunal, the Specialized Criminal Court, convicted Asaad al-Ghamdi, 47, a Saudi…
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By Laura
In Burkina Faso on May 25, 2024, a national conference took place to establish the country’s new political agenda. This conference concluded with the five-year extension to its military transition.
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