Category: Academic Reportage

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Louis-Etienne Dubois, Associate Professor, School of Creative Industries, The Creative School, Toronto Metropolitan University With live service games, players are learning that what they’ve really bought is not a game but access to it. And, evidently, that access is something that can be revoked. (Unsplash/Samsung Memory)…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Thom Reilly, Professor and Co-Director of the Center for an Independent and Sustainable Democracy, Arizona State University Two-party control of U.S. politics runs contrary to the vision of the Constitution’s framers. Douglas Rissing/Getty Images As dissatisfaction with the two-party system grows in the United States, the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Ola Anabtawi, Assistant Professor Department of Nutrition and Food Technology, An-Najah National University Hunger exists on a spectrum. On the one end is food insecurity, where people are forced to adjust to fewer meals. As food becomes scarce, the body consumes its own reserves. The…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa – By Anné H. Verhoef, Professor in Philosophy, North-West University Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is getting better at imitating human beings. It can create things that previously only humans could produce, like music, texts and images. AI is now also being used to imitate God, through chatbots that…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa – By Timothy Gachanga, Lecturer, Kenyatta University The French parliament has unanimously passed a law to return the Djidji Ayôkwé, a sacred talking drum stolen by colonial forces from Côte d’Ivoire in 1916. Once used by the Ebrié people in the coastal south of the country to summon…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Brian Jansen, Assistant Professor of English and Media Studies, University of Maine Hulk Hogan was arguably WWE’s biggest star in the 1980s. Wally McNamee/Corbis via Getty Images Hulk Hogan’s death by heart attack at age 71 came as a shock to many fans of the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Mark Schlakman, Senior Program Director, Center for the Advancement of Human Rights, Florida State University The right terms can help you properly express your feelings about Alligator Alcatraz. Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images A July 2025 CBS/YouGov poll asked Americans, “Do you approve or disapprove of…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Oliver L. Haimson, Assistant Professor of Information, University of Michigan Transgender and nonbinary people report negative attitudes toward AI. alvaro gonzalez/Moment via Getty Images AI seems to be well on its way to becoming pervasive. You hear rumbles of AI being used, somewhere behind the scenes,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Jeff Bachman, Associate Professor, Department of Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations, American University School of International Service Palestinians crowd to get food in Gaza City on July 30, 2025. Abdalhkem Abu Riash/Anadolu via Getty Images Since World War II, the United States has repeatedly supported…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By Anand Kumar, Professor and Department Head of Psychiatry, University of Illinois Chicago Researchers are in the earliest phase of piecing together how the shingles vaccine could play a role in lowering the risk of dementia. PM Images/DigitalVision via Getty Images Over the past two centuries,…