Queen Elizabeth II: a Reign that Saw the End of the British Empire in...
By Roger Southall
In the UK the Queen’s official title is: Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain...
A Nobel Prize in Physics That We Can All Understand
By Gary Yohe
Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann were awarded shares of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics for scientific work that is both understandable...
More Innovation Can Creatively Destroy Firearm Violence
By Dan Prud'homme
We need more investment in two types of technologies that could dramatically reduce gun violence in America: better non-lethal arms and a...
Asian American Experiences of Racism During COVID-19
By Sumie Okazaki
From the earliest days of the COVID-19 global pandemic, there has been a surge of anti-Asian hostility directed toward Asian Americans, ranging...
Hope, Wisdom, Advocacy: An Interview With Toronto’s Deborah Morrish
Cicero wrote that all great achievements require “reflection, force of character and judgment.”
Today’s world certainly needs more of those qualities. In her role as...
The Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States
By Dr Paola Giuliano and Dr Marco Tabellini
Recent immigration flows to Europe and the US are usually associated with heated political backlash. Yet, little...
The Other Pandemic: Misinformation And How Higher Education Can Offer a Remedy
By Micah Sadigh
As we traverse, oftentimes unsuspectingly, into the darkness of an untethered technology of sharing information – seductive, magical, and in one brief...
How We Should Talk about Racial Disparities
By Natalie Spievack
Many 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have emphasized the role of historical and contemporary discrimination in creating and perpetuating disparities between Black and...
Tadatoshi Akiba: “The Goal of The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is...
A conversation with the former mayor of Hiroshima on nuclear weapons By Joseph Mazur
The city of Hiroshima will forever live in the memory...
Celeste Hedequist on the Mass Media’s Coverage of the 2021 Homeless Encampment Clean-Up in...
By Celeste Hedequist
In October of 2021, Boston’s most vulnerable residents began receiving notices to vacate a tent encampment at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue...
