Category: Academic Reportage

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Kate Price, Associate Research Scientist at the Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley College Jeffrey Epstein abuse survivor Lisa Phillips speaks during the press conference on the Epstein Files Transparency Act in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 18, 2025. Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images Congress on Nov. 18,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Kee Hyun Park, Assistant Professor of International Political Economy, Nanyang Technological University; Institute for Humane Studies U.S. farmers, including those who grow soybeans, are under pressure from various Trump administration policies. Jan Sonnenmair/Getty Images Few political alliances in recent American history have seemed as solid…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa – By Lilac Nachum, Visiting professor, Strathmore University Africa is the world’s most endowed continent in agricultural potential, yet it remains a marginal player in global agribusiness. This paradox lies at the heart of Africa’s development challenge. Africa’s land accounts for nearly half of the global total. Most…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Shelley Mitchell, Senior Extension Specialist in Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Oklahoma State University Pecan pie is a popular holiday treat in the United States. Julie Deshaies/iStock via Getty Images Pecans have a storied history in the United States. Today, American trees produce hundreds of million…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Laszlo Sarkany, Assistant Professor, Political Science, Western University The International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. Canada and the EU have legal remedies at hand that could help the ICC thrive in the years ahead. (Wikimedia Commons), CC BY-SA Canada has yet to officially throw its…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By David Tindall, Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia We live in a time often characterized as a polycrisis. One of those crises is human-caused climate change, an issue currently being discussed by delegates at the COP30 climate talks in Belém, Brazil. Another is disinformation, much…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Jillian Sunderland, PhD Student , University of Toronto Across TikTok and university campuses, young men are rewriting what masculinity looks like today, sometimes with matcha lattes, Labubus, film cameras and thrifted tote bags. At Toronto Metropolitan University, a “performative male” contest recently drew a sizeable crowd…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Daryl Janzen, Observatory Manager and Instructor, Astronomy, University of Saskatchewan Time itself isn’t difficult to grasp: we all understand it, despite our persistent struggle to describe it. The problem is one of articulation: a failure to precisely draw the right boundaries around the nature of time…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By Michal Raucher, Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, Rutgers University Orthodox Jewish women attend an event celebrating the completion of the 7 1/2-year cycle of daily study of the Talmud, the central text of Jewish law, on Jan. 5, 2020, in Jerusalem. AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov When…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Alex Hinton, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology; Director, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University – Newark MAGA hats are placed on a table at an election night party in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Nov. 5, 2024. Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via…