Category: Academic Reportage

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa – By Robert J. Gordon, Emeritus Professor, University of Vermont and Research Associate, University of the Free State The genocide of Namibia’s Ovaherero and Nama people by German colonial forces (1904-1907) is widely documented. But much less is made of what came next – the genocide of the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By Mireille Rebeiz, Chair of Middle East Studies, Dickinson College Walid Jumblatt, the political leader of Lebanon’s Druze minority, speaks in Beirut on July 18, 2025. AP Photo/Bilal Hussein Violence continues several weeks after clashes started between armed Bedouin clans, Sunni jihadist groups and Druze fighters…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By David B. Sarwer, Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Temple University Limiting the amount of physical contact in training can reduce young players’ head injury risks, research shows. Mint Images RF via Getty Images On July 28, 2025, a 27-year-old gunman entered a New York…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Helen Colby, Assistant Professor of Marketing, Indiana University Have you ever noticed a sign in a doctor’s office saying that you may have to pay extra insurance costs if you discuss additional problems with your physician? If so, you’re not alone. As health care spending…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Hilary Lustick, Associate Professor of Education, UMass Lowell While other presidential administrations have issued ‘Dear Colleague’ letters to schools, the Trump administration is the first to treat the letter like a law that mandates action. iStock/Getty Images Plus It’s been about six months since the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Susan L. Cutter, Distinguished Professor of Geography and Director of the Hazards Vulnerability & Resilience Institute, University of South Carolina FEMA workers help residents who lost homes in the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires apply for aid. Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images When…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Ahmed Ibrahim Yunus, Ph.D. Candidate in Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology Scientists used pharmaceutical waste to create a new material with interesting properties. Mitrija/iStock via Getty Images Today, approximately 1,800,000 acres of land in the United States is used for landfill waste disposal. In terms…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Murugan Anandarajan, Professor of Decision Sciences and Management Information Systems, Drexel University More than 150 Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority buses across Philadelphia are equipped with cameras that detect vehicles blocking bus lanes. Han Zheng via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority piloted a…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Anjana Susarla, Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University The California State Capitol has been the scene of numerous efforts to regulate AI. AP Photo/Juliana Yamada U.S. state legislatures are where the action is for placing guardrails around artificial intelligence technologies, given the lack of meaningful…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Roberta Soares, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa Different countries and regions use various models for integrating immigrant students who need to learn or improve the language of schooling. In Québec, one model for young people is the classe d’accueil, which could be…