Category: Academic Reportage

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By J-C Couture, Adjunct faculty and Associate Lecturer, Department of Secondary Education, University of Alberta If 2022 was the year OpenAI knocked our world off course with the launch of ChatGPT, 2025 will be remembered for the frenzied embrace of AI as the solution to everything. And,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Carrie Ann Johnson, Assistant Teaching Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, Iowa State University Would you trust sensitive information from someone you know more than from an anonymous online poster? kali9/E+ via Getty Images Whisper networks are informal channels that women use to warn each other…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Monica Duffy Toft, Professor of International Politics and Director of the Center for Strategic Studies, The Fletcher School, Tufts University Hundreds of generals and admirals will converge on Quantico, Virginia, on Sept. 30, 2025, after being summoned from across the globe by their boss, Pentagon chief…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Amy Werbel, Professor of the History of Art, Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) The vast majority of Americans support the right to free speech. Jacek Boczarski/Anadolu via Getty Images In the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term in office, his administration has made…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Laura Gail Miller, Ed.D. Candidate in Educational Organizational Learning and Leadership, Seattle University A Texas A&M free speech case raises questions about academic freedom that have featured before in American society and courts, including during the 1950s. Westend61 Texas A&M University announced the resignation of…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By Konden Smith Hansen, Senior Lecturer of Religious Studies, University of Arizona Russell Nelson, center, sits during the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ biannual General Conference in Salt Lake City in 2019. George Frey/Getty Images Russell M. Nelson, a former heart surgeon and longtime…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By Neil Marsh, Professor of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan You’re more likely to get chromium from your cookware than from your food. Fausto Favetta Photoghrapher/Moment via Getty Images You might best know chromium as a bright, shiny metal used in bathroom and kitchen…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Jackson Pind, Assistant Professor, Indigenous Methodologies, Chanie Wenjack School of Indigenous Studies, Trent University Chief Elsie Knott, the first female chief of a First Nation in Canada, disliked the Indian Day School system from her own childhood experiences and wanted something better for the next generation.…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Elizabeth Blum, Professor of Environmental History, Troy University Environmental Protection Agency staff and contractors are often involved in large cleanups of toxic waste, such as after the Los Angeles fires of early 2025. Mario Tama/Getty Images As Congress faces a Sept. 30, 2025, deadline to…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By David Barrett, Research Associate, Aquatic Science, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary Recent reports of proposed federal government spending cuts to water monitoring and research strike a particularly ominous note for Canada’s Prairies. The government is considering significant reductions to programs, specifically within the Canada Water…