By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image (L-R) Kesha Moore and Anne Houghtaling call on the US Supreme Court to uphold a fair and representative congressional map in Louisiana v. Callais on March 24, 2025 in Washington, DC. © 2025 Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Legal Defense Fund On October 15, the Supreme Court will rehear Louisiana v. Callais, which could determine whether Black voters have a meaningful chance at equal representation in Congress. The question before the court is a crucial one: does creating majority-Black districts to comply with the Voting Rights Act amount to unconstitutional racial…
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By Albert Navarro García, Profesor titular de Derecho Financiero y Tributario, Universitat de Girona
Did you know that making one cotton t-shirt uses around 2,700 litres of water, around the amount that a person drinks in three years? Fast fashion may offer cheap, on-trend clothes, but it also generates an annual 12kg of textile waste per person in Europe, only 1% of which is recycled to make new garments.
The fast fashion industry produces too much, too fast, too cheap, but there are ways to slow it down – in recent years, the EU and European countries have begun to propose, and implement,
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Tony Burke on Thursday will outline new powers to combat money laundering, terrorism financing and crime risks associated with cryptocurrency and Crypto ATMs.
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By Rahul Sidhu, PhD Candidate, Neuroscience, University of Sheffield
Alzheimer’s is a disease that robs people of their memory, and scientists have long sought ways to stop or reverse its effects. But the blood-brain barrier – the brain’s protective shield – has been both a friend and a foe. While it keeps harmful substances out, it also blocks many treatments from getting in.
Now researchers are trying a different approach. Rather than bypassing the barrier, they’re learning to work with it.
A new…
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By Francesco Grillo, Academic Fellow, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University
“The European green deal is something we owe to our children because we do not own this planet.” These words date back to a few days before Christmas 2019. They defined Ursula Von Der Leyen’s first presidency of the European Commission but belong to what now seems like a different era.
Now, six years later, after the COVID-19 pandemic and one (still ongoing) war in Europe, what is left of the European green deal? How can we fix what does remain of it? And why are European voters suffering…
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By Aviva Guttmann, Lecturer in Strategy and Intelligence, Aberystwyth University
Israel’s spies have a well-deserved reputation for ingenuity and ruthlessness, Not so well known is that they often rely on other countries’ intelligence.
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By Athina Vlachantoni, Professor of Gerontology and Social Policy, University of Southampton
Maria Evandrou, Professor of Gerontology, University of Southampton
About two-thirds of people in the UK will become grandparents during their lifetime. Half of those grandparents will provide some form of care to their grandchildren. But who makes up that half depends on a number of factors. One of these is ethnicity.
Understanding the extent to which parents from different communities in society rely on other people – such as paid-for childcare or their own parents – for the care of their children is an important question from a number of perspectives.
It…
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By Carol Mathews, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Florida
Stephen V. Faraone, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, SUNY Upstate Medical University
ADHD symptoms occur on a continuum and can fluctuate dramatically based on life circumstances such as transitions to middle school, stress levels and even sleep.
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By Julia Gaffield, Associate Professor of History, William & Mary
Historian Julia Gaffield discusses her recent biography on Haiti’s first leader, whose life she argues was unfairly tarnished by biased verdicts of history.
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By Uwe Bergmann, Professor of Ultrafast X-Ray Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Thomas Linker, Associate Scientist, SLAC Computational Beamline, Stanford University
Super short X-ray pulses help scientists study materials at the atomic level. Researchers found that certain lasing effects can make these pulses even shorter.
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