Category: Academic Reportage

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Jared Bahir Browsh, Assistant Teaching Professor of Critical Sports Studies, University of Colorado Boulder It’s unusual for a professional sports franchise to plan a yearlong celebration for a team that didn’t win a championship. But it is also rare that a group of players represents…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Gabriel Guillén, Professor of Language Studies, Middlebury College Being able to follow and contribute to a live group conversation is the gold standard of language learning. Zinkevych/iStock via Getty Images Your host in Osaka, Japan, slips on a pair of headphones and suddenly hears your…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Robert A. Strong, Senior Fellow, Miller Center, University of Virginia Can today’s divided America learn something from the divisions of the past? zimmytws, iStock/Getty Images Plus People trying to understand politics in the United States today often turn to history for precedents and perspective. Are our…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Christina Nicholas, Associate Professor of Orthodontics and of Anthropology, University of Illinois Chicago Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Why do people have two sets of teeth?…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Azarang Asadi, Data Scientist, Oklahoma State University The use of motion data is expanding from fitness and rehabilitation to general health. Todor Tsvetkov/E+ via Getty Images People often take walking for granted. We just move, one step after another, without ever thinking about what it takes…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Suvrat Dhanorkar, Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology ‘Big-box’ supercenters can contribute to overpurchasing by shoppers Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images Imagine walking out of a Walmart, Target or Costco. As you push your large shopping cart to your car, you ask yourself: Did…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Karen Bird, Professor of Political Science, McMaster University Canadians have often looked to Aotearoa New Zealand as an established model for electoral inclusion of Indigenous voices. But local elections recently held in New Zealand offer an important cautionary tale for Canada, where treaty rights remain contested…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Victor Kuperman, Professor, Department of Linguistics and Languages, McMaster University Reading is a complex cognitive skill that predicts career prospects and social mobility throughout our lifetimes. For newcomers to a country, success often depends on learning to read fluently in a new language. In fact, language…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Eric Story, Postdoctoral researcher, Department of History, Western University After the First World War, veterans who had lost limbs formed fraternal associations such as the Amputation Club in Vancouver, B.C., seen here in 1918, to advocate for disabled veterans. (Stuart Thomson Fonds/ City of Vancouver Archives)…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Katrina Barclay, Executive Manager, Telfer Family Enterprise Legacy Institute (FELI), L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa Like previous federal budgets, the recently released Budget 2025 fails to acknowledge a pressing generational shift for Canada’s economy: the succession crisis facing most Canadian family-owned businesses. Over the next decade, 60…