By Kyle Fiore Law, Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Sustainability, Arizona State University
Stylianos Syropoulos, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Arizona State University
Caring about future generations means believing that people who will live decades or centuries from now deserve ethical consideration. In practice, that means taking their interests into account when making all kinds of decisions across a range of issues – from aggressively cutting carbon emissions to investing in pandemic preparedness initiatives and regulating powerful emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence.
While it may sound like a niche moral view to care about future generations in this way, our…
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By Charmaine N. Willis, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Old Dominion University
Keith A. Preble, Teaching Assistant Professor, East Carolina University
US sanctions on foreign nations have lost some of their power to influence the behavior of other nations – with increasing costs for the US to boot.
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By Lakshmi Chauhan, Associate Professor of Infectious Disease Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Spring’s warmer weather lures people outdoors – and into possible contact with ticks that spread Lyme disease.
Already, the 2026 tick season is booming. On April 23, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned that emergency room visits due to tick bites are at their highest level since 2017. That may portend an especially severe…
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By Wayne Unger, Associate Professor of Law, Quinnipiac University
First Choice, the crisis pregnancy center chain that brought the case, argued that merely issuing a subpoena can deter donors from making a gift.
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By Kerri J. Malloy, Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies, San José State University
Congress passed a law in 1990 mandating the return of all Native American items that federally funded institutions took without consent. Progress since then has been slow.
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By Colin Clark, Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, University of the West of Scotland
No single issue has dominated the agenda ahead of the Scottish parliament election in May. But immigration, despite being a matter not devolved to Holyrood, has been part of campaigns. This is because some parties use it to feed wider anxieties about housing, jobs, public services and identity.
Glasgow has been a particular flashpoint because of its role as a City of Sanctuary for asylum seekers.…
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By Robert D. Bland, Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies, University of Tennessee
The Supreme Court’s ruling that a Black-majority voting district in Louisiana is unconstitutional adds to a long and dismal history of government attempts to limit the power of minority voters.
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By Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
Democracy cannot thrive, or even survive, when its leaders see themselves as godlike and divide citizens into believers and heretics, a scholar writes.
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By Jeffrey A. Lee, Professor of Geography and the Environment, Texas Tech University
Each study adds a piece to the puzzle of scientific knowledge. But any one study on its own doesn’t tell you all that much.
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By Deana L. Weibel, Professor of Anthropology, Grand Valley State University
Astronauts report feeling profoundly awestruck when they go to space, an anthropologist reports. This experience shapes their perspectives even back on Earth.
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