Why privacy is a foundation of many constitutional protections but not mentioned in the Constitution
By Scott Skinner-Thompson, Associate Professor of Law, University of Colorado Boulder Almost all American adults, which include parents, medical patients, and people who are sexually active, regularly exercise their right to privacy, even if they do not know it....
One Pill Can Kill: Waukesha declares health crisis after record number of youth overdose on Fentanyl
Logan Rachwal was a freshman at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Growing up, he loved to play baseball. As a college student, he enjoyed writing poems, drawing and cooking. He was just 19-years-old when his mother, Erin Rachwal, received a phone call from one of...
White market drugs: Why the opioid crisis induced by Big Pharma goes beyond the villainy of the Sacklers
By David Herzberg, Associate Professor of History, University at Buffalo The public has heard about the Sackler family and the role that they and their privately held company, Purdue Pharma, played in the opioid crisis. One TV series depicting the family as a...
A political debt: Race for governor heats up as Evers criticizes his opponent for being beholden to Trump
Democratic Governor Tony Evers said on August 10 that his Trump-backed Republican opponent would not be able to back away from positions he took in a contentious primary campaign, saying the relationship Michels had with the former president would define the campaign....
From bewildered to outraged: When Americans idolize a man who broke his solemn oath for personal gain
Ahead of the first hearing of the January 6 Select Committee I had the opportunity, due to my more than 40 years in law enforcement, to share my thoughts as part of a panel discussion about what had happened on that terrible day, and what I expected to come from the...
A return to repression: The Taliban has failed to deliver on its promises a year after the fall of Kabul
By Andrew Mines, Research Fellow at the Program on Extremism, George Washington University; and Amira Jadoon, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Clemson University When the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan on August 15, 2021, there were faint hopes that...
Forensic Evidence: Lessons from Afghanistan show challenges of proving Russian war crimes in Ukraine
By Stefan Schmitt, Project Lead – International Technical Forensic Services , Florida International University The United Nations reports that at least 5,237 Ukrainian civilians have been killed in the Ukraine war, but other estimates place this figure at more...
Powerful Images: How social media has altered journalism standards for the depictions of war
By Beena Sarwar, Visiting Professor of Journalism, Emerson College Photos of civilians killed or injured in the Russia-Ukraine war are widespread, particularly online, both on social media and in professional news media. Editors have always published images of dead or...
Russia seeks to further isolate itself with decision to withdraw from the International Space Station
By Wendy Whitman Cobb, Professor of Strategy and Security Studies, Air University Russia intends to withdraw from the International Space Station after 2024, according to an announcement from Yuri Borisov, the new head of the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, in a...
Persecuted Writers: The attack on Salman Rushdie is a wake-up call for defending the freedom to write
Just hours before he was brutally attacked on August 12 in Chautauqua, New York, Salman had emailed me to help with securing safe refuge for Ukrainian writers who face grave perils that are silencing their voices at a time when they badly need to be heard. The email...
A clash with the Quran: Why Salman Rushdie’s book remains highly controversial after three decades
By Myriam Renaud, Affiliated Faculty of Contemporary World Religions, Union Institute & University Author Salman Rushdie is in the hospital with serious injuries after being stabbed by a man at an arts festival in New York State on August 12, 2022. The following...
Espionage Act: How seized top-secret documents point to possible criminal wrongdoing by former president
By Clark D. Cunningham, W. Lee Burge Chair in Law & Ethics; Director, National Institute for Teaching Ethics & Professionalism, Georgia State University The FBI recovered confidential and top-secret items from Mar-a-Lago during its August 8, 2022, search of...
