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The US ambassador to the UN is tasked with doing a careful dance between Washington and the world

  • Written by Abiodun Williams, Professor of International Politics, Tufts University
imageA view of the United Nations headquarters building in New York in July 2024. Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images

New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, a Republican, is set to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Jan. 16, 2025, as part of her confirmation process to become the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Internationa...

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Soaring wealth inequality has remade the map of American prosperity

  • Written by Tom Kemeny, Associate Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto
imageNew data highlights an increasing wealth divide across the United States.pick-uppath/Getty Images

One need only glance at headlines about Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and other super-wealthy individuals to understand that wealth in America is increasingly concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. Inequality is sharply on the rise.

Until now, however, little...

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Joe Biden leaves a complicated legacy on the federal courts

  • Written by Paul M. Collins Jr., Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science, UMass Amherst
imageClarence Thomas shakes hands with Joe Biden, then-chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, before Thomas' Sept. 10, 1991, confirmation hearing to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court.Arnie Sachs/CNP/Getty Images

President Joe Biden’s farewell to elected office on Jan. 20, 2025, presents an opportunity to reflect on the legacy he...

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How America courted increasingly destructive wildfires − and what that means for protecting homes today

  • Written by Justin Angle, Professor of Marketing, University of Montana
imageThe Palisades Fire spreads near homes amid a powerful windstorm on Jan. 7, 2025.Mario Tama/Getty Images

The fires burning in the Los Angeles area are a powerful example of why humans have learned to fear wildfire. Fires can level entire neighborhoods in an instant. They can destroy communities, torch pristine forests and choke even faraway cities wi...

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Bird flu flares up again in Michigan poultry – an infectious disease expert explains the risk to humans, chickens, cows and other animals

  • Written by Kimberly Dodd, Dean of College of Veterinary Medicine, Michigan State University
imageThe H5N1 virus has been found in poultry and cattle farms across southwest and central Michigan. Matthew Hatcher/AFP via Getty Images

After a relatively quiet fall, there’s been another spike in cases of bird flu in Michigan.

When state officials announced on Dec. 16, 2024, that bird flu had been found in another poultry facility in Ottawa...

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Community savings groups in Uganda are good stewards of local people’s money – and of outsiders’ funds too, research shows

  • Written by Danice Brown Guzmán, Associate Director of Evidence and Learning, Pulte Institute for Global Development, University of Notre Dame
imageIn remote areas of Uganda, getting to a bank can be difficult if not impossible.Luis Tato/AFP/Getty Images

Imagine being unable to borrow money for basic needs or emergencies because the bank is too far away or demands collateral or identification that you can’t provide. For millions of rural people living in poverty around the world, this is...

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This course examines Israeli school division to better understand education policy – and society – in the US

  • Written by Ayala Hendin, Postdoctoral fellow in Israel studies, Washington University in St. Louis
imageTeachers Alia Hussein, left, and Efrat Toval give a lesson on identity, in Hebrew and Arabic, to third grade students in the Hand in Hand School in Jerusalem. Craig Stennett/Getty Images

Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

Title of course:

Education in a divided...

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The Gilded Age novel that helps explain our fascination with Luigi Mangione

  • Written by Max Chapnick, Research Fellow, Boston University
imageThe mystery of human choices, even when circumstances are known, occupied writers like Henry James.Gene J. Puskar/Getty Images

A good-looking young man with a mysterious past carries a loaded gun, ready to kill, on the streets of the world’s financial capital.

This scene not only describes Luigi Mangione’s alleged murder of United...

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Bezos’ Blue Origin has successfully launched its New Glenn rocket to orbit − a feat 15 years in the making

  • Written by Wendy Whitman Cobb, Professor of Strategy and Security Studies, Air University
imageBlue Origin's New Glenn rocket stands ready on the launchpad. Anadolu/Contributor/Anadolu via Getty Images

Just past 2 a.m. Eastern time on Jan. 16, 2025, a new rocket blasted off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. By reaching orbit, Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket launch has marked a milestone for a commercial space...

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White House Office of Science and Technology Policy provides in-house science advice for the president

  • Written by Kenneth Evans, Scholar in Science and Technology Policy, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University
imageThe president's science adviser has executive privilege and is also responsible to Congress.Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Presidents need science advice. From climate change and pandemics to the governance of AI and the country’s nuclear arsenal, science sits at the center of a range of foreign and domestic policy challenges that...

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  6. A national, nonpartisan study of the Los Angeles fires could improve planning for future disasters
  7. Meta shift from fact-checking to crowdsourcing spotlights competing approaches in fight against misinformation and hate speech
  8. Joe Biden’s record on science and tech: Investments and regulation for vaccines, broadband, microchips and AI
  9. Insurance for natural disasters is failing homeowners − I don’t have the answers, but I do know the right questions to ask
  10. Kamala Harris memes questioning her cultural background highlight Americans’ contradictions with race
  11. In eyeing Greenland, Trump is echoing long-held American designs on the Arctic expanse
  12. Catholic cardinals play a key role in secular politics as well as the Catholic Church–and the importance of Pope Francis’ choice to head the church in DC
  13. Spending, regulations and DOGE: Office of Management and Budget director plays vital role helping government get stuff done
  14. This class uses museums to show law students the high art of curating ideas
  15. My beautiful ‘practicing’ Christians: As churchgoers’ numbers shrink, their social views grow more similar
  16. Rents rise faster after disasters, but a federal program can help restrain excesses
  17. How the CIA director helps the US navigate a world of spies, threats and geopolitical turbulence
  18. Terrorist groups respond to verbal attacks and slights by governments with more violence against civilians
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  20. 4 reasons why the US might want to buy Greenland – if it were for sale, which it isn’t
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  22. Job of homeland security secretary is to adapt almost continuously to pressures from the department, the public and the world at large
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  30. US secretary of state has an expansive job that could make or break peace deals and key foreign alliances
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