Category: Academic Reportage

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By Lucy Xiaolu Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Resource Economics, UMass Amherst When companies file hundreds of patents for a single drug, affordable versions can remain out of reach for years. pilli/iStock via Getty Images Plus Pharmaceutical innovation saves lives. But not every “new” drug is…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Chris Lituma, Assistant Professor of Wildlife and Fisheries Resources, West Virginia University A western meadowlark sings its mating song Danita Delimont/Gallo Images Roots RF collection via Getty Images Waking up to the dawn chorus of birds – one of the natural world’s greatest symphonies –…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Betty Medsger, Professor Emeritus of Journalism, San Francisco State University The building in Media, Penn. where burglars in 1971 found evidence of decades of FBI abuses against citizens. Betty Medsger As a candidate last year, Donald Trump promised retribution against his perceived enemies. As president, he…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Kristina Mani, Professor of Politics, Oberlin College and Conservatory U.S. Marines guard the Wilshire Federal Building in Los Angeles on June 22, 2025. AP Photo/Jae C. Hong In his second term as president, Donald Trump has deployed U.S. military forces in rarely used roles in domestic…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Chunrong Jia, Professor of Environmental Health, University of Memphis Gas turbines outside the xAI data center in Memphis. AP Photo/George Walker IV Even before an Elon Musk-owned artificial intelligence company opened a data center in southwest Memphis, Tennessee, air pollution was so bad that residents…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Tammi Walker, Associate Professor of Law and Psychology, University of Arizona Students, parents and others gather outside the White House to press the Biden administration to release updated Title IX rules on Dec. 5, 2023. Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for National Women’s Law Center Most Americans…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Scott Saleska, Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona Biosphere 2 is a research facility located near Tucson, Ariz. Katja Schulz/Flickr, CC BY From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Debra Lam, Founding Director of the Partnership for Inclusive Innovation, Enterprise Innovation Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology A researcher works in a cotton field in Jenkins County, Georgia, as part of a project on AI and pesticide use. Dorothy Seybold Precision agriculture uses tools and technologies…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Sage Meredith Goodwin, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for American Political History and Technology, Purdue University ABC briefly suspended ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ after the host made controversial remarks about the shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Turner “Is there any way…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Pawel Popiel, Assistant Professor of Journalism, Washington State University A fundamental restructuring of U.S. media is underway, with potentially huge consequences. Giuliano Benzin, iStock/Getty Images Plus Following unprecedented threats from Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr, major affiliate station owners Nexstar and Sinclair Broadcasting pressured Disney’s…