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By Avner Cohen, Professor of Nonproliferation Studies, Middlebury Institute of International Studies Living for 75 years within a hostile neighborhood has required the state of Israel to provide security against external threats to all its citizens. That...

By Keren McGinity, Research Associate, Brandeis University October 2023 marks the anniversary of #MeToo: six years since actor Alyssa Milano’s tweet calling for women to speak out about experiences of abuse went viral and helped launch a global movement. Ever since,...

By Latisha Nixon-Jones, Associate Professor of Law, Jacksonville University As questions loom over the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s ability to fund disaster recovery efforts, people whose homes were damaged or destroyed by recent wildfires and storms are...

Israel’s military on October 13 directed the evacuation of northern Gaza, a region that is home to 1.1 million people, about half of the territory’s population, within 24 hours. The order could signal an impending ground offensive against Hamas militants....

By Christopher A. Hartwell, Professor of International Business Policy, ZHAW School of Management and Law; and Paul Vaaler, Professor of Law and Business, University of Minnesota President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has come at huge economic costs. By...

By Jerry Kang, Distinguished Professor of Law and Asian American Studies; Founding Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, University of California, Los Angeles In two cases challenging the use of race in college admissions, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled...

An Israeli military spokesman admitted on October 10 what had been obvious to witnesses of the mass destruction underway in the besieged Gaza Strip: that the goal of Israel’s ongoing bombing campaign was to inflict severe damage on the occupied territory, not to...

By Aaron Pilkington, PhD Candidate at Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver There will be only one winner in the war that has broken out between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. And it is neither Israel nor Hamas. In an operation...

By Charles O. Stanier, Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of Iowa; Gregory Carmichael, Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of Iowa; and Peter S. Thorne, University of Iowa Distinguished Chair, Professor of...

By Karyn Amira, Associate Professor of Political Science, College of Charleston When Mitt Romney announced his intended retirement from the U.S. Senate on September 13, an excerpt was published from his upcoming biography, in which the 2012 Republican presidential...

By Steven Berkowitz, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus The hospital where I practice recently admitted a 14-year-old girl with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, to our outpatient program. She was referred to us six months...