Category: MIL OSI
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Tariffs may bring a US$50 billion monthly boost to the US government. But ordinary Americans won’t feel the benefit
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jiao Wang, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex Sundry Photography/Shutterstock Donald Trump’s recent state visit to the UK ended without the removal of steel tariffs, which the host nation had been hoping for. For months, the US president’s array of…
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My voyage to explore how Marshallese sailors find their way at sea without technology
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Maria Ahmad, PhD Candidate, Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL Indigenous Marshallese sailor Clansey Takia. Chewy Lin, CC BY-NC-ND One of the biggest navigation challenges is knowing where you are in the open ocean without tools or devices. This remarkable skill is exemplified by the…
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‘See you in Valhalla’: how the FBI director waded into the far-right’s obsession with the Vikings
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Tom Birkett, Professor of Old English and Old Norse, University College Cork Arthur Szyk, Valhalla, from The Nibelungen Series (New York, 1942) The Arthur Szyk Society, Burlingame, CA, CC BY-SA At a press conference announcing that the suspect in the shooting of Charlie Kirk had been…
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Labour to revive maintenance grants and further education – but can it improve skills and social mobility at the same time?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Helena Gillespie, Associate Pro Vice Chancellor for Student Inclusion and Professor of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, University of East Anglia Harbucks/Shutterstock Keir Starmer’s recent speech at the Labour conference placed the UK at a “fork in the road”, telling the audience that there is…
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Why the politics of cancellation never works
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Robert Danisch, Professor, Department of Communication Arts, University of Waterloo Cancellation, elimination, subtraction, removal, invalidation — these synonyms describe a core, pervasive principle in our current political moment. A common fantasy from those on all positions of the ideological spectrum is the belief that if one…
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Charlie Kirk’s legacy is the beneficiary of empathy, but he couldn’t stand the term
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Jane Barter, Professor, Department of Religion and Culture, University of Winnipeg The grief that attended American political activist Charlie Kirk’s murder was not solely poured out by the political right. Liberal commentators also participated; journalist Ezra Klein expressed grief in an essay for The New York…
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Violent acts in houses of worship are rare but deadly – here’s what the data shows
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By James Densley, Professor of Criminal Justice, Metropolitan State University A church program lies on the ground near the family reunification area after the shooting in Grand Blanc, Mich., on Sept. 28, 2025. Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images On Sept. 28, 2025, at least four people…
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Flood-prone Houston faces hard choices for handling too much water
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Ivis García, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University A roadside assistance vehicle is swamped by floodwaters on a Houston highway in 2024. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Eight years after Hurricane Harvey devastated Houston in 2017, flooding hundreds of thousands of homes,…
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Conventional anti-corruption tools often fail to address root causes – but loss of US leadership could still spell trouble for efforts abroad
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By Diana Chigas, Professor of the Practice in International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, Tufts University President Donald Trump signs a series of executive orders on Feb. 10, 2025, including an order relating to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images For nearly half a century,…
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Many book bans could be judging titles mainly by their covers
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Alex Wermer-Colan, Academic and Research Director, Loretta C. Duckworth Scholars Studio, Temple University Libraries, Temple University A display at the Hoboken Public Library in Hoboken, N.J., features books that have been targeted or banned in other states. Ana Fernandez/AFP via Getty Images Over the past…