By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
As the election campaign finally begins, both major parties are making their case to the electorate. But will a spending arms race land with voters?
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By Felipe Tirado, PhD Candidate in Law, King's College London
For the first time in Brazil’s history, a former president and high-ranking officers have become defendants for crimes linked to a coup d'état.
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By Carlos Eduardo Machado Sangreman Proença, enseignant-chercheur, Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal)
Guinea-Bissau faces a deep political crisis. For several years, the small west African nation has endured growing tensions between political institutions and there’s now a strong climate of uncertainty.
Guinea-Bissau’s general elections had been scheduled for November 2024, but President Umaro Sissoco Embaló postponed…
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By Jeffrey Anvari-Clark, Assistant Professor of Social Work, University of North Dakota
It’s not just about having money problems − it’s how you feel about those problems that matters most for your mental health.
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By Bradley J. Cardinale, Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management, Penn State
Emmett Duffy, Chief Scientist, Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network and MarineGEO, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Smithsonian Institution
Rod Schoonover, Adjunct Professor, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
When the natural environment is stretched beyond its ability to meet basic human needs for food, clean air, drinkable water and shelter, it is not just a humanitarian concern for the world community. Research shows that these crises are a matter of national security for the U.S. and other countries.
The Pentagon and the U.S. intelligence community have long paid close attention to the influence…
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By Conner Philson, Executive Director, UCSB Natural Reserve System, University of California, Santa Barbara
Daniel T. Blumstein, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles
Multilevel selection is a controversial concept originally proposed by Darwin. A new study found evidence for it in the wild in a group of marmots scientists have been observing for more than 60 years.
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By Frederick Scholl, Associate Teaching Professor of Cybersecurity, Quinnipiac University
Keeping your chats secure is a good idea, but end-to-end encryption is just the beginning of the list of options to consider when picking a messaging app.
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By Brooke Schedneck, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Rhodes College
A scholar of Buddhism explains authentic ways to engage deeply with the tradition, ranging from short meditation retreats to full ordination as a monastic.
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By Callie Maddox, Associate Professor of Sport Leadership and Management, Miami University
Many Americans see baseball as a sport for men and softball as a sport for women. It wasn’t always this way in the US – and it isn’t that way in the rest of the world.
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By Anne Richardson Oakes, Associate Professor and Director: Centre for American Legal Studies, Birmingham City University
If the US Supreme Court rules any of Donald Trump’s executive orders unconstitutional then the scene is set for a confrontation.
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