Category: Academic Reportage

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Christophe Gagné, PhD candidate, Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) People often turn to pets to boost their mood and find companionship. Improving well-being and reducing loneliness are among the most cited reasons for adopting an animal companion. But even though the belief that pets…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Masako Toki, Senior Education Project Manager and Research Associate, Nonproliferation Education Program, Middlebury Supporters of nuclear disarmament, including Hibakusha, demonstrate in Oslo, Norway, in 2024. Hideo Asano, CC BY-ND Eighty years ago, in August 1945, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were incinerated by the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa – By Tracy Kitchen, Lecturer: Student Academic Development, Rhodes University Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash South African learners consistently struggle with reading comprehension, performing poorly in both international and local assessments. A significant issue is that 81% of grade 4 learners (aged 9 or 10) are unable…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Jonathan E. Cohen, Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine and Director of Policy Engagement, Institute on Inequalities in Global Health, University of Southern California, University of Southern California Steep cuts in US government funding have thrown much of the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By Tanner Ethan Walker, Assistant Professor of Religion, Wesleyan University ‘Samson and Delilah,’ by Anthony van Dyck, 1599-1641. DeAgostini/Getty Images The biblical figure of Samson has long been understood as a man of brute strength, a warrior on the margins of society whose story is often…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By Jill Lens, Professor of Law, University of Iowa At least 1 in 4 stillbirths in the U.S. are preventable, research shows. O2O Creative/iStock via Getty Images Plus About 60 pregnancies per day in the U.S. end in stillbirth. The best way to find out why…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Peter Boumgarden, Professor of Family Enterprise, Washington University in St. Louis Imagine it’s April 2025 and you’re the owner of a small but fast-growing e-commerce business. Historically, you’ve sourced products from China, but the president just announced tariffs of 145% on these goods. Do you…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Rebecca Dore, Director of Research of the Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy, The Ohio State University Rep. Robert Garcia, a California Democrat, speaks during a House hearing in March 2025, months before Congress rescinded two years of public media funding. Nathan Posner/Anadolu…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Sarah Diaz, Associate Professor of Recreation and Sport Management, Coastal Carolina University A researcher collects water samples in Everglades National Park in Florida to monitor ecosystem health. AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell The United States’ national parks have an inherent contradiction. The federal law that created the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Harold Wallace, Curator, Electricity Collections, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution This combined satellite image shows how Earth’s city lights would look if it were night around the entire planet at once. White areas of light show cities with larger populations. NASA/Goddard Space Flight…