Jared Bahir Browsh, Assistant Teaching Professor of Critical Sports Studies, University of Colorado Boulder The Pac-12 is likely to be competing in its last March Madness, as realignment has pushed 10 of its schools to other conferences. What led the most decorated conference…
Timothy D. Lytton, Regents’ Professor & Professor of Law, Georgia State University The government of Mexico is suing U.S. gun-makers for their role in facilitating cross-border gun trafficking that has supercharged violent crime in Mexico. The…
Regina Smyth, Professor of Political Science, Indiana University Long lines of Russians endured subzero temperatures in January 2024 to demand that anti-Ukraine war candidate Boris Nadezhdin be allowed to run in the forthcoming presidential election. It…
Yara M. Asi, Assistant Professor of Global Health Management and Informatics, University of Central Florida The stories of hunger emerging from war-ravaged Gaza are stark: People resorting to grinding barely edible cattle…
Spenser A. Warren, Postdoctoral Fellow in Technology and International Security, University of California, San Diego Fresh U.S. intelligence circulating in Congress reportedly indicates that Russia is developing an anti-satellite weapon in space with a nuclear component. News…
Ayesha Jalal, Professor of History, Tufts University Pakistan’s heavily anticipated general election took place on Feb. 8, 2024, with citizens of the South Asian country hoping that it might prove a step toward…
Joseph Patrick Kelly, Professor of Literature and Director of Irish and Irish American Studies, College of Charleston In the blur of breaking news, one of President Joe Biden’s first speeches of the 2024 campaign…
Gregory F. Treverton, Professor of Practice in International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences The United States mounted more than 125 retaliatory strikes against Iranian forces and Iranian-backed militias…
Elis Vllasi, Senior Research Associate & Lecturer in National Security & Foreign Affairs, University of Tennessee The conflict in Ukraine will soon be heading into its third year with no sign of…
Carol Ferrara, Anthropologist & Assistant Professor, Department of Marketing Communication, Emerson CollegeFrançoise Lorcerie, Professeure, Aix-Marseille Université (AMU)Vincent Geisser, Sociologue, Aix-Marseille Université (AMU) France is famously strict on enforcing what it calls “laïcité”: keeping…
Victor Peskin, Associate professor of politics and global studies, Arizona State University The International Court of Justice ordered Israel on Jan. 26, 2024, to prevent possible genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. But the…