Category: Academic Reportage

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Sara M. Grimes, Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy and Professor, McGill University Parenting in the digital age can be stressful and demands a lot from parents. The Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) recently released its annual Online Safety Survey that discovered almost 50 per…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By Lauren S. Hughes, State Policy Director, Farley Health Policy Center; Associate Professor of Family Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Health policy experts predict that cuts to Medicaid will push more rural hospitals to close. sneakpeekpic via iStock / Getty Images Plus The public…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa – By Lesley Green, Professor of Earth Politics and Director: Environmental Humanities South, University of Cape Town Urban water bodies – rivers, lakes and oceans – are in trouble globally. Large sewage volumes damage the open environment, and new chemicals and pharmaceutical compounds don’t break down on their…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Abigail Bishop, Ph.D. Student in Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison At the South Pole, which way is up? Abigail Bishop 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. Are…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By Shaon Lahiri, Assistant Professor of Public Health, College of Charleston Misinformation on social media has the potential to manipulate millions of people. Pict Rider/iStock via Getty Images Plus In 2019, a rare and shocking event in the Malaysian peninsula town of Ketereh grabbed international headlines.…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Susanne Schindler, Research Fellow at the Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard Kennedy School Activists in Seattle gather signatures to put a social housing initiative on the ballot. In early 2025, voters passed the measure, which implements a payroll tax on high incomes to fund…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Lisa Schirch, Professor of the Practice of Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame A protester calls out Facebook for facilitating the spread of disinformation. AP Photo/Jeff Chiu Every design choice that social media platforms make nudges users toward certain actions, values and emotional states. It is…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Marc Zimmer, Professor of Chemistry, Connecticut College International students have been a big part of American STEM. Rick Friedman/AFP via Getty Images Despite representing only 4% of the world’s population, the United States accounts for over half of science Nobel Prizes awarded since 2000, hosts seven…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Vikash V. Gayah, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Penn State Research shows left turns at intersections are dangerous and slow traffic. Benjamin Rondel/The Image Bank via Getty Images More than 60% of traffic collisions at intersections involve left turns. Some U.S. cities – including San Francisco,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Olayinka Ajala, Associate professor in Politics and International Relations, Leeds Beckett University More than 40 Malian soldiers were killed and one of the country’s military bases was taken over in early June 2025 in a major attack by an al-Qaeda linked group, Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam…