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Stanford sociology professor Robb Willer is one of five Stanford winners of the 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship, alongside ...

The humanitarian catastrophe is a consequence of a prolonged European abdication: the refusal to hold a belligerent Israeli ...

The atrocity prevention community faces an existential question: How do we continue our work when the fundamental norm of ...

Climate change poses a growing threat to health care systems worldwide, exposing weaknesses in infrastructure, workforce, and governance. Climate risk—defined by the interaction of hazard, exposure, ...

For Taiwan and India, the developments present an opportunity for democratic collaboration in space, particularly regarding dual-use technologies and the normative frameworks for outer space ...

Rooting out corruption was an early focus of Xi’s tenure, but he has intensified the effort in recent years: in 2025, the party’s discipline-inspection authorities filed more than one million cases, ...

Critics argue that Ghamidi's analysis of Iran–US tensions reflects not merely independent reasoning but an inclination toward a Western rationalist paradigm. Rather than foregrounding the historical ...

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) now defines a living wage as the wage level necessary for workers and their families to afford a decent standard of living, given national circumstances, ...

South Africa’s first attempt to establish a binding artificial intelligence (AI) policy framework came to an abrupt halt just ...

In its 2025/2026 report, the human rights watchdog Amnesty International calls out the "predatory behavior of the powerful" ...

THE intensity of the July movement escalated following a press conference held at Ganabhaban on July 14, 2024. After ...