Category: Academic Reportage

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Jeremy Porter, Professor of Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences, City University of New York A deadly flash flood on July 4, 2025, swept through Nancy Callery’s childhood home in Hunt, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Destructive flash flooding in Texas and other states is raising…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Julie Novkov, Professor of Political Science and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University at Albany, State University of New York Protesters support birthright citizenship on May 15, 2025, outside of the Supreme Court in Washington. AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin Legal battles over President Donald Trump’s executive order…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Keri K. Stephens, Professor & Co-Director, Technology & Information Policy Institute, The University of Texas at Austin How emergency alerts convey risks matters. AP Photo/Eric Gay Flash floods like the one that swept down the Guadalupe River in Texas on July 4, 2025, can be highly…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa – By Sheldon Strydom, Senior Lecturer & Head of Department, Department of Geography, Rhodes University After a fire. Hendrik van den Berg, via Wikimedia Commons., CC BY Winter in some parts of South Africa is a time of low (or no) rainfall and high fire danger. Sheldon Strydom…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By Turgay Ayer, Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology AI will help human physicians by analyzing patient data prior to surgery. Boy_Anupong/Moment via Getty Images Imagine walking into your doctor’s office feeling sick – and rather than flipping through pages of your…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks at a church in Harlem during his failed campaign to become the Democratic nominee in the 2025 New York City mayoral race. Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images Churches…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By Jalees Rehman, Department Chair and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Illinois Chicago Poorly functioning blood vessels lead to the characteristic muscle weakness that so many cancer patients experience. Artur Plawgo/Science Photo Library via Getty Images Tumors can destroy the blood vessels of…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Nathan Meyers, Ph.D. candidate in sociology (September 2025 degree conferral), UMass Amherst Demonstrators march outside the U.S. Capitol during the Poor People’s Campaign rally at the National Mall in Washington on June 23, 2018. AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana America has never been richer. But the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Flor Acevedo, Assistant Professor of Entomology, Penn State Adult spotted lanternflies infest areas of Pennsylvania from July to December. Lauren A. Little/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images Spotted lanternfly season is back in Pennsylvania. The polka-dotted, gray-and-red-winged adult insects make their appearance each July and…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti, Associate Research Scientist, University of Michigan The SWIFT constellation, shown not to scale in this illustration, will fly farther than its predecessors to improve space weather warning time. Steve Alvey The burgeoning space industry and the technologies society increasingly relies on – electric grids,…