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During Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month in May, students across the country shut down college campuses and spurred mass movement for a free Palestine. Younger generations are significantly more pro-Palestine than their elders, and according to a...

By Christopher K. Tong, Associate Professor of Asian Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Every year ahead of the June 4 commemoration of the Tiananmen Square massacre, the Chinese government tightens online censorship to suppress domestic discussion of...

By Diane Winston, Professor and Knight Center Chair in Media & Religion, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism In August 1982, Ronald Reagan’s father-in-law was dying. Nancy Reagan’s beloved dad, Loyal Davis, was an atheist. That was a troubling...

By Johanna Richlin, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Maine It can be hard to imagine sometimes why a mother would reject safe and potentially lifesaving vaccines for her child. Popular writing on vaccine skepticism often denigrates white and...

By Name Here, Academic title and school goes in this space in italic By September 2020, just six months after COVID-19 triggered shutdowns across the U.S., it was clear that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, had mutated from its original form. The question...

The Israel-Gaza war has taken an unprecedented toll on Gazan journalists since Israel declared war on Hamas following its attack against Israel on October 7, 2023. The press freedom group Reporters Without Borders announced on May 27 that it had filed a third...

By Katrina Burgess, Professor of Political Economy, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University While campaigning in Iowa last September, former President Donald Trump made a promise to voters if he were elected again: “Following the Eisenhower model, we...

By Shaun Eaves, Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography, Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington; Jamey Stutz, Assistant Director Polar Rock Repository, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, The Ohio State University; Kevin Norton, Associate...

By Danielle K. Brown, Professor of Journalism, Michigan State University Protest movements can look very different depending on where you stand, both literally and figuratively. For protesters, demonstrations are usually the result of meticulous planning by advocacy...

By Colleen Murrell, Full Professor in Journalism, Dublin City University Accusations about Israeli censorship of the media went mainstream in the U.S. recently when The New York Times published an opinion piece headlined: “The Israeli Censorship Regime is...

By Rodney Benson, Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University; and Victor Pickard, C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy, University of Pennsylvania For the journalism industry, 2024 is off to a brutal start. Most...

By Rhea Almeida, Research Project Manager, NYU Metro Center, New York University When it comes to summer learning, the benefits are well documented. Students who consistently attend well-planned, high-quality programs achieve higher scores on math and language arts...