Category: Analysis

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Peter Boumgarden, Professor of Family Enterprise, Washington University in St. Louis Imagine it’s April 2025 and you’re the owner of a small but fast-growing e-commerce business. Historically, you’ve sourced products from China, but the president just announced tariffs of 145% on these goods. Do you…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Betsy Pudliner, Associate Professor of Hospitality and Technology Innovation, University of Wisconsin-Stout The American South – and the nation more broadly – continues to wrestle with how to remember its most painful chapters. Tourism is one of the arenas where that struggle is most visible.…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Gail Richmond, Professor of Education, Michigan State University Finding good candidates to fill that teacher’s chair is no easy task. Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Nearly 500 of Michigan’s 705 school districts reported teaching vacancies in the fall of 2023. That’s…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Rebecca Dore, Director of Research of the Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy, The Ohio State University Rep. Robert Garcia, a California Democrat, speaks during a House hearing in March 2025, months before Congress rescinded two years of public media funding. Nathan Posner/Anadolu…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Sarah Diaz, Associate Professor of Recreation and Sport Management, Coastal Carolina University A researcher collects water samples in Everglades National Park in Florida to monitor ecosystem health. AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell The United States’ national parks have an inherent contradiction. The federal law that created the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Harold Wallace, Curator, Electricity Collections, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution This combined satellite image shows how Earth’s city lights would look if it were night around the entire planet at once. White areas of light show cities with larger populations. NASA/Goddard Space Flight…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Bill Smith, Ph.D. Candidate in Physics & Astronomy, Vanderbilt University Merging black holes generate gravitational waves, which astronomers can track. SXS, CC BY-ND Black holes are massive, strange and incredibly powerful astronomical objects. Scientists know that supermassive black holes reside in the centers of most galaxies.…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Stephanie A. (Sam) Martin, Frank and Bethine Church Endowed Chair of Public Affairs, Boise State University Donald Trump wants to restrict journalists’ ability to publish or broadcast critical stories. Mesh cube, iStock/Getty Images Plus President Donald Trump is again attacking the American press – this time…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Christopher Palma, Teaching Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Penn State The solar corona, as viewed by Proba-3’s ASPIICS coronagraph. ESA/Proba-3/ASPIICS/WOW algorithm, CC BY-SA During a solar eclipse, astronomers who study heliophysics are able to study the Sun’s corona – its outer atmosphere – in ways they…