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Kerouac’s Road: The Beat of A Nation – this documentary can’t reconcile nostalgia with the true contemporary US
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Michael Collins, Reader in American Studies and Chair of The British Association for American Studies, King’s College London When Jack Kerouac published On the Road in 1957, he presented the novel as the product of a single marathon writing binge. It was a method he had…
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Our engineering team is making versatile, tiny sensors from the Nobel-winning ‘metal-organic frameworks’
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Jie Huang, Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology Prof. Jie Huang stands with the MOF-based breathalyzer his lab developed with support from the NIH. Michael Pierce/Missouri S&T When the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry honored Omar Yaghi – the…
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Friendships aren’t just about keeping score – new psychology research looks at why we help our friends when they need it
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Jessica D. Ayers, Assistant Professor of Psychological Science, Boise State University Friendship isn’t about a running tally of who’s doing more. miodrag ignjatovic/E+ via Getty Images Despite how natural friendship can feel, people rarely stop to analyze it. How do you know when someone will make…
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Travelling to the U.S.? How the government shutdown will impact tourism
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Frédéric Dimanche, Professor and former Director (2015-2025), Ted Rogers School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Toronto Metropolitan University A shutdown of the United States federal government started on Oct. 1 after President Donald Trump and Congress failed to reach an agreement on the funding legislation required…
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The Gaza ceasefire deal could be a ‘strangle contract’, with Israel holding all the cards
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Marika Sosnowski, Senior research fellow, The University of Melbourne There are jubilant scenes in both Gaza and Israel after both sides in the war have agreed to another ceasefire. If all goes well, this will be only the third ceasefire to be implemented by Israel…
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For war-weary Syria, potential benefits of security pact with Israel comes with big risks
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Mireille Rebeiz, Chair of Middle East Studies, Dickinson College The Syrian Defense Ministry was heavily damaged after airstrikes in Damascus on July 16, 2025. AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed On Sept. 21, 2025, a senior U.S official boasted that an Israeli-Syrian security agreement to resolve months of…
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The new archbishop of Canterbury has already made history – but she has huge challenges ahead
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By William Crozier, Duns Scotus Assistant Professor of Franciscan Studies, Durham University Bruised by recent events, the Church of England has just entered a new era. Dame Sarah Mullally’s appointment as the first female archbishop of Canterbury is momentous. But Mullally has an enormous challenge ahead of…
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Trump’s tragedy: the US becomes an autocracy and the presidency, a dictatorship
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Emma Shortis, Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University […]we took the freedom of speech away. We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military[…] They’re poisoning the blood of our country. Stand back and…
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Explainer: what powers does Trump actually have to deploy the military to US cities?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By John Hart, Emeritus Faculty, US government and politics specialist, Australian National University US President Donald Trump’s efforts to deploy the military for law enforcement duties in selected American cities is likely to end up before the US Supreme Court. If it does, the nine justices…
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A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Michael J. I. Brown, Associate Professor in Astronomy, Monash University Can a new satellite constellation create sunlight on demand? SpaceX/Flickr, CC BY A proposed constellation of satellites has astronomers very worried. Unlike satellites that reflect sunlight and produce light pollution as an unfortunate byproduct, the…