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/ 10 months agoBeijing may have brokered a fragile truce in northern Myanmar – but it can’t mask China’s inability to influence warring parties
Beijing is losing patience with Myanmar’s military, as well as its influence with resistance groups.
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/ 10 months agoOld forests are critically important for slowing climate change and merit immediate protection from logging
President Biden has called for protecting large, old trees from logging, but many of them could be cut while the regulatory...
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/ 10 months agoStudents in this course learn the art of the apology
Apologies can easily go awry if they’re not made in a certain way.
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/ 10 months agoLatin America’s colonial period was far less Catholic than it might seem − despite the Inquisition’s attempts to police religion
Conversion was often a violent affair, but that doesn’t mean it was 100% successful. Colonial Latin America was home to many...
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/ 10 months agoTrump defends himself to the Supreme Court, saying he called ‘for peace, patriotism, respect for law and order’ on Jan. 6 and is not an insurrectionist
The first shoe has dropped in the Supreme Court’s process of considering whether Donald Trump is eligible to be president.
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/ 10 months agoWhy did Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 have a sealed-off emergency exit in the first place? The answer comes down to money
A commercial pilot turned management expert and author of ‘The Next Crash: How Short-Term Profit Seeking Trumps Airline Safety,’ explains the...
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/ 10 months agoStudents do better and schools are more stable when teachers get mental health support
Mental health for teachers carries critical benefits for students.
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/ 10 months agoNot all underwater reefs are made of coral − the US has created artificial reefs from sunken ships, radio towers, boxcars and even voting machines
Artificial reefs are structures that humans put in place underwater that create habitat for sea life. A new study shows for...
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/ 10 months agoWomen presidential candidates like Nikki Haley are more likely to change their positions to reach voters − but this doesn’t necessarily pay off
Nikki Haley is the latest American female politician to shift her language, depending on whom she is talking to and where....
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/ 10 months agoUS law permits charities to encourage voting and help voters register, making GOP concerns about this assistance unfounded
A professor of nonprofit law explains why drafting any restrictions on charities requires proceeding with great care.
