Category: Academic Reportage

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Jay L. Zagorsky, Associate Professor Questrom School of Business, Boston University Halloween is a fun, scary time for children and adults alike – but why does the holiday seem to start so much earlier every year? Decades ago, when I was young, Halloween was a…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Navid Tahvildari, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Florida International University A hurricane’s storm surge can quickly inundate coastal areas. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Hurricanes are America’s most destructive natural hazards, causing more deaths and property damage than any other type of disaster. Since 1980,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Shelley Inglis, Senior Visiting Scholar with the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University A crowd gathered for a “No Kings” protest on October 18, 2025 in Anchorage, Alaska. Hasan Akbas/Anadolu via Getty Images What happens now? That may well be the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Catherine Reeve, Post doctoral fellow, Mount Saint Vincent University From getting extra cuddles to vigilant protection, many expectant parents claim their dogs behave differently during pregnancy — sometimes even before the person knew they were pregnant themselves. Dogs have shared our lives for around 35,000 years,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Kevin Budning, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, National Security, Carleton University Wednesday marks the 11th anniversary of the Parliament Hill shooting, when an Islamist-inspired extremist, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, stormed Canada’s War Memorial and Parliament Hill, killing one soldier and injuring three other people. The shooting — the worst attack…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Cornelia Schneider, Professor, Education, Mount Saint Vincent University The education of children with disabilities is a complex issue more than 30 years after “inclusive education” appeared for the first time in an important 1994 United Nations statement. Children with disabilities too often face varied forms of…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Ann-Kathrin McLean, Assistant Professor, School of Tourism and Hospitality Management, Royal Roads University Thirty beluga whales are at the risk of being euthanized at the now-shuttered Marineland zoo and amusement park in Niagara Falls. Marineland said in a letter to Canada’s Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson it…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Amélie Godefroidt, Assistant Professor in Conflict Management, IÉSEG School of Management; KU Leuven Across the world, the question of how to deal with former fighters remains urgent. From Nigeria and Iraq to Syria and the Sahel, governments are wrestling with how to bring people who…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Daniel J. Mallinson, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Administration, Penn State Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s first budget, in 2023, was not fully passed until mid-December. AP Photo/Daniel Shanken While Americans across the country deal with the consequences of the federal government shutdown, residents of Pennsylvania…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By Patrick Aguilar, Managing Director of Health, Washington University in St. Louis Many physicians who aren’t U.S. citizens come to the U.S. to do medical residency programs. SDI Productions/E+ via Getty Images There are almost 1.1 million licensed physicians in the United States. That may sound…