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Apr 4, 2025

How is classified information typically shared and can officials declassify secrets whenever they want? A national security expert explains

Director of Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard testifies during a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence hearing on March 26, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images Dakota Rudesill, The Ohio State University U.S. District Judge James Boasberg on March 27, 2025, ordered top Trump administration officials to preserve records of their messages

Apr 2, 2025

Thousands are feared dead in Myanmar’s quake. Trump’s USAID cuts will cause even more unnecessary deaths

Adam Simpson, University of South Australia In early 2021, after a decade of political and economic reforms, Myanmar looked like it was finally beginning to shake off the hangover of decades of military rule. Foreign investment was growing, and standards of living were gradually improving. In February that year, however, the military again

Apr 1, 2025

Heathrow closure: what caused the fire and why did it bring down the whole airport? Expert panel

Kirk Chang, University of East London; Barry Hayes, University College Cork; Chenghong Gu, University of Bath; Colin Manning, Newcastle University; Hayley J. Fowler, Newcastle University; Paul Cuffe, University College Dublin, and Sean Wilkinson, Newcastle University Heathrow Airport, the busiest airport in Europe, was shut down following a fire at a single electricity sub-station

Mar 31, 2025

Trump’s tariffs could push grocery prices even higher, but there are steps Canada could take to protect consumers

Mathew Iantorno, University of Toronto The first months of Donald Trump’s presidency have been defined by a single word: tariffs. He has framed tariffs as a panacea to the woes of the American economy, promising they will restore the country’s manufacturing sector and reduce the national deficit. As the United States’ largest trading

Mar 28, 2025

Islamic State in Somalia: the terrorist group’s origins, rise and recent battlefield defeats

Stig Jarle Hansen, Norwegian University of Life Sciences The Islamic State in Somalia is an affiliate of the transnational jihadist group Islamic State, known in short as ISIS. Based in the semi-autonomous northern Somalia territory of Puntland, the terrorist group was the target of the first foreign combat operation of the Trump administration

Mar 27, 2025

The paradox of democracy’s success: behavioural science helps explain why we miss autocratic red flags

Ph. An etching by Pietro Fabris of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, where thousands of people continue to live, despite the risk. Wellcome Collection Ralph Hertwig, Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Stephan Lewandowsky, University of Bristol The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 paved the way for the democratisation of

Mar 25, 2025

Trump’s executive order to dismantle the Education Department was inspired by the Heritage Foundation’s decades-long disapproval of the agency

The Heritage Foundation flag flies over its building on July 30, 2024, in Washington, D.C. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Fred L. Pincus, University of Maryland, Baltimore County President Donald Trump issued an executive order on March 20, 2025, that calls for closing the U.S. Department of Education. The president needs congressional approval to shutter

Mar 24, 2025

Ukraine war: how Zelensky rebuilt his relationship with Trump to turn the tables on Putin

Natasha Lindstaedt, University of Essex After Donald Trump’s “very good and productive” phone call with Vladimir Putin earlier this week, all eyes were on his subsequent call with Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky. Would it, as it did when they last met in the flesh on February 28 at the White House, descend into

Mar 21, 2025

A glimpse into a surreal abyss: how COVID ravaged a remote city in the Amazonian jungle – podcast

Gemma Ware, The Conversation When the first cases of COVID began to spread around the world in early 2020, people in Iquitos, a remote city in the Peruvian Amazon, weren’t unduly worried. They assumed their isolation would protect them. It didn’t. Peru, and Iquitos, were hit fast and hard. In many wealthier parts

Mar 20, 2025

Two charts that explain why Reform isn’t being dented by its scandals

Paul Whiteley, University of Essex The spat between Nigel Farage, the leader of the Reform party, and Rupert Lowe, the MP for Great Yarmouth, burst into the open when Lowe was suspended from the party. The allegation was that he had threatened violence to the party leadership, which he denies. The matter is

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