Jeannine Bell, Loyola University Chicago With hate crimes, context is everything, and events outside of the United States – like the war between Israel and Hamas – can have far-reaching and potentially tragic consequences. Vermont police arrested a man in Burlington on…
Jeannine Bell, Loyola University Chicago With hate crimes, context is everything, and events outside of the United States – like the war between Israel and Hamas – can have far-reaching and potentially…
Denitsa Dineva, Cardiff University Elon Musk’s recent endorsement of an antisemitic conspiracy theory on X (formerly Twitter) is the latest in a series of controversial statements the owner of the social media…
Jorge Heine, Boston University Noticing my nonappearance at the start of a black-tie dinner at the Johannesburg home of Harry Oppenheimer, a mining magnate and Africa’s richest man, the host assumed I…
M. Hadi Amini, Florida International University Depending on which late-model vehicle you own, your car might be watching you – literally and figuratively – as you drive down the road. It’s watching…
Paul Winters, University of Notre Dame For the first time ever, food and agriculture took center stage at the annual United Nations climate conference in 2023. More than 130 countries signed a…
Mary Magnuson, The Conversation If you hadn’t heard about superconductors before 2023, odds are you know what they are now. Researchers raised eyebrows early in the year with claims of operational room-temperature…
Graham Gardner, Texas Christian University Planned Parenthood no longer provides abortions in Texas, Louisiana and the other 10 states that have essentially banned abortion since the Supreme Court handed down its Dobbs…
Liam Cassidy, The University of Melbourne; Andrew King, The University of Melbourne; Josephine Brown, The University of Melbourne, and Tilo Ziehn, CSIRO Humanity’s emissions of greenhouse gases have caused rapid global warming…
Suvrath Mahadevan, Penn State; Guðmundur Kári Stefánsson, Princeton University, and Megan Delamer, Penn State Imagine you’re a farmer searching for eggs in the chicken coop – but instead of a chicken egg,…
David E. Clementson, University of Georgia U.S. Rep. George Santos, a Republican from New York, was expelled on Dec. 1, 2023 from Congress for doing what most people think all politicians do…