Category: English
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How the First Amendment protects Americans’ speech − and how it does not
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Ray Brescia, Associate Dean for Research and Intellectual Life, Albany Law School Demonstrators protest the suspension of the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” show on Sept. 18, 2025, in Los Angeles, Calif. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images Imagine a protest outside the funeral of a popular political leader,…
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Empathy is under attack — but it remains vital for leadership and connection
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Leda Stawnychko, Associate Professor of Strategy and Organizational Theory, Mount Royal University Once considered a universal good, empathy now divides as much as it unites. Empathy has long been viewed as a straightforward strength in leadership, but it has recently become a political flashpoint. Some conservative…
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One Battle After Another: this insane movie about leftwing radicals and rightwing institutions is a powerful exploration of US today
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Ruth Barton, Professor in Film Studies, Trinity College Dublin The recent death of Robert Redford was a reminder of just how much All the President’s Men unsettled old certainties about American democracy. An exposé of the Watergate scandal of 1972 (when members of the campaign to…
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Russia is turning to African women and conscripted North Koreans to tackle its defence worker shortage
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jennifer Mathers, Senior Lecturer in International Politics, Aberystwyth University US president Donald Trump has said Ukraine could win back all of the territory it has lost in the ongoing war, but Russia’s president Vladimir Putin shows no signs of wanting a peace deal, or reducing the…
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Information could be a fundamental part of the universe – and may explain dark energy and dark matter
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Florian Neukart, Assistant professor of Physics, Leiden University Credits: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, G. Östlin, P. G. Perez-Gonzalez, J. Melinder, the JADES Collaboration, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb), CC BY-SA For more than a century, physics has been built on two great theories. Einstein’s general relativity explains gravity…
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Is meat masculine? How men really talk about being carnivores
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Annayah Prosser, Assistant Professor in Marketing, Business and Society, University of Bath Cast Of Thousands/Shutterstock There are lots of good reasons not to eat meat or dairy products. It might be for your health or for the sake of the environment. Or you might have moral…
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How researchers are making precision agriculture more affordable
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Samuel Mugo, Professor & Associate Dean, Development, Department of Physical Sciences, MacEwan University Farmers are under pressure. Fertilizer costs have soared in recent years. Tariffs are increasing equipment costs and cutting Canadian farmers off from key foreign markets. And climate change is bringing its own set…
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Space-time doesn’t exist — but it’s a useful framework for understanding our reality
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Daryl Janzen, Observatory Manager and Instructor, Astronomy, University of Saskatchewan Space-time provides a powerful description of how events happen. ( MARIOLA GROBELSKA/Unsplash), CC BY Whether space-time exists should neither be controversial nor even conceptually challenging, given the definitions of “space-time,” “events” and “instants.” The idea that…
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Despite Google’s recent victory, a flurry of competition cases could still change how the tech giants do business
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Ioannis Kokkoris, Professor of Competition Law and Economics, Queen Mary University of London A US judge recently decided not to break up Google, despite a ruling last year that the company held a monopoly in the online search market. Between Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Meta,…
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Detroit’s Gordie Howe bridge is poised to open as truck traffic between US-Canada slows – low-income residents are deciding whether to stay or go
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Paul Draus, Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan-Dearborn The Gordie Howe International Bridge connects Detroit, Mich., and Windsor, Ontario. John Coletti/Photodisc via Getty Images Watching the space between two nations shrink became a regular pastime for Detroiters over the past decade as the segments of the…