By Kate Cantrell, Senior Lecturer in Humanities, University of Southern Queensland
Periodic Bitch tells what it’s like to live with PMDD: an extreme, chronically understudied and widely misunderstood form of premenstrual illness.
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By Myra Williamson, Senior Lecturer in Law, Auckland University of Technology
Voter turnout in New Zealand elections has been sliding for decades. Research suggests compulsory voting could reverse the trend – so what are the objections?
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By Kristin Kanthak, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh
Despite Pennsylvania’s status as a fiercely contested swing state, many local and state primary races in the 2026 primaries draw little competition at all.
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By Amnesty International
Responding to the Dominican Republic assuming the presidency of the 79th World Health Assembly, Ana Piquer, Americas Director at Amnesty International, said: “As it assumes the presidency of the world’s leading global health forum, President Luis Abinader’s government in the Dominican Republic has the responsibility to demonstrate that its international leadership translates into real guarantees […] The post Dominican Republic: Global leadership in health requires domestic consistency and an end to racial discrimination appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image The Federal High Court premises in Abuja, Nigeria, on April 22, 2026. © 2026 Light Oriye Tamunotonye/AFP via Getty Images On May 5, a Nigerian high court ordered the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), a prominent local human rights organization, to pay 100 million naira (about US$72,000) in damages to two Department of State Services officials. The court also directed the organization to publish public apologies and pay litigation costs.The Department of State Services officials filed the civil case against SERAP following the latter’s…
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By Anastasia Pestova
Russian stories of civic resistance show that environmental justice often begins with a simple question: who has the right to decide the fate of the places people call home?
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By Stephen Coleman, Emeritus Professor of Political Communication, University of Leeds
Beyond the high drama surrounding the Makerfield by-election and the contest to be the UK prime minister lies a more fundamental battle. It is the struggle between the incremental pragmatism of mainstream politics and the magical thinking of populism.
The great catchword of recent UK politics has been “change”. Brexit, it was said, would change the country’s declining position in the world. Boris Johnson said after his landslide…
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By Emilia Vann Yaroson, Assistant Professor in Operations and Supply Chain Management, University of Sheffield
Jonathan Silcock, Associate Professor in Pharmacy Practice, University of Bradford
Liz Breen, Professor of Health Service Operations, School of Pharmacy & Medical Sciences, University of Bradford
The UK continues to experience shortages of many common prescription drugs, despite efforts to strengthen supply chains.
Drugs for ADHD, epilepsy, GLP-1s for type 2 diabetes and weight…
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By Sally Christine Reynolds, Associate Professor in Hominin Palaeoecology, Bournemouth University
Studies of Chinese Homo erectus suggest that it was no evolutionary dead end, but contributed genes to modern people in the region.
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By Lucy Bennett, Lecturer in Popular Music, Digital Culture and Fandom, Cardiff University
Scrolling through social media, it feels as though “indie sleaze” never went away. Grainy flash photography, smudged eyeliner and a soundtrack of early 2000s indie music are once again dominating feeds.
This revival is more of a reworking than a straightforward comeback. Today’s indie sleaze – exemplified in the music video for Charli XCX’s new track, Rock Music – is an algorithmically curated version of a once messy, participatory…
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