Category: English
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Is China a climate goodie or baddie – or both?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Will de Freitas, Environment + Energy Editor, The Conversation This roundup of The Conversation’s climate coverage was first published in our award-winning weekly climate action newsletter, Imagine. You could tell me that China still gets most of its electricity from coal and is building more new…
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The spiritual and emotional world of pub psychic nights
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Josh Bullock, Senior Lecturer Criminology and Social Sciences, Kingston University Breanna P/Shutterstock At a Bristol social club, a psychic medium scans the room, inviting the spirit world into a space more often used for drinking and darts. The medium is talking to a small audience, mostly…
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The other space race: why the world is obsessed with sending objects into orbit
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Tony Milligan, Teaching Associate, University of Sheffield Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster, with Earth in background. wikipedia, CC BY-SA Beyond the race for scientific, commercial and military purposes, there is another space race of a more curious sort. A race to be the first to send various…
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Nature’s not perfect: fig wasps try to balance sex ratios for survival but they can get it wrong
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Jaco Greeff, Professor in Genetics, University of Pretoria Television nature programmes and scientific papers tend to celebrate the perfection of evolved traits. But the father of evolution through natural selection, Charles Darwin, warned that evolution would produce quirks and “blunders” that reflect a lineage’s history.…
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Sex-motivated violence should be treated as a hate crime
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Debra M Haak, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Queen’s University, Ontario Canada recently introduced the Combatting Hate Act, legislation that will create three new criminal offences intended to strengthen protections against hate. The first new offence targets hate crimes directly for the first time in Canada.…
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How the arts strengthen newcomer settlement in Canada
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Jeremie Molho, Senior Research Associate, Canada Excellence Chair in Migration and Integration Program, Toronto Metropolitan University Settling in a new country is often imagined as a sequential process, built on a supposed hierarchy of needs. You accomplish one priority, then another, and another and then you’re…
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Edson Sithole: new book uncovers the work of a thinker, lawyer and Zimbabwean freedom fighter who ‘disappeared’
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Brooks Marmon, Post-doctoral Scholar, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, The Ohio State University Edson Sithole was born in what was then Southern Rhodesia in 1935. He was the first black person in southern Africa to obtain a Doctor of Laws degree. He was the…
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Windhoek’s Old Location was a place of pain, but also joy – new book
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa – By Henning Melber, Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria All that’s left of a famous settlement called the Old Location in Windhoek, Namibia, is a graveyard and a monument to remember the residents who were killed while protesting their forced removal in 1959. But…
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Supreme Court to decide if Colorado’s law banning conversion therapy violates free speech
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By Timothy R. Holbrook, Professor of Law, University of Denver The US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments for yet another case involving the LGBTQ+ community. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images The constitutionality of a Colorado law that bans so-called “conversion therapy” is scheduled to go…
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Supreme Court opens with cases on voting rights, tariffs, gender identity and campaign finance to test the limits of a constitutional revolution
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Morgan Marietta, Professor of American Civics, University of Tennessee The U.S. Supreme Court building at dawn in Washington, D.C. Samuel Corum/Bloomberg via Getty Images The most influential cases before the U.S. Supreme Court this term, which begins on Oct. 6, 2025, reflect the cultural and partisan…