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Caste doesn't just exist in India or in Hinduism – it is pervasive across many religions in South Asia and the diaspora

  • Written by Aseem Hasnain, Associate Professor of Sociology, Bridgewater State University
imageNuns from a group of Dalit Christians, or India's lowest caste who converted to Christianity, protest in New Delhi.AP Photo/Gurinder Osan

The California State University system, America’s largest public higher education system, recently added caste, a birth-based social hierarchy system, to its anti-discrimination policy, allowing students,...

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Revisiting Will Smith's slap and what it means to protect a loved one

  • Written by Neil Roberts, Professor of Africana Studies and Political Science, Williams College
imageWill Smith accepts an Oscar during the 94th Annual Academy Awards.Neilson Barnard/Getty Images

It took less than a nanosecond before The Slap was seen around the world. It took a little longer – about two weeks – before the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences decided to ban Will Smith from appearing at another Oscar awards...

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'Great resignation' appears to be hastening the exodus of US and other Western companies from Russia

  • Written by Steven Kreft, Clinical Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, Indiana University
imageMcDonald's said it is losing $50 million a month by keeping its Russian locations closed. AP Photo

Companies across the globe are fleeing Russia in an unprecedented display of corporate solidarity with their governments, appalled over the invasion of Ukraine. Over 750 multinational businesses so far have said they’re curtailing, suspending or...

Read more: 'Great resignation' appears to be hastening the exodus of US and other Western companies from Russia

Rising authoritarianism and worsening climate change share a fossil-fueled secret

  • Written by Eve Darian-Smith, Professor of Global and International Studies, University of California, Irvine
imageBrazil's Jair Bolsonaro and Donald Trump threw their weight behind industries that are driving climate change.Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Around the world, many countries are becoming less democratic. This backsliding on democracy and “creeping authoritarianism,” as the U.S. State Department puts it, is often...

Read more: Rising authoritarianism and worsening climate change share a fossil-fueled secret

Lo que las grandes petroleras sabían sobre el cambio climático, en sus propias palabras

  • Written by Benjamin Franta, Ph.D. Candidate in History, Stanford University
imageLas empresas petroleras conocían el riesgo mucho antes que la mayoría del resto del mundo.Barry Lewis/InPictures via Getty Images

Hace cuatro años, viajé por América, visitando archivos históricos. Estaba buscando documentos que pudieran revelar la historia oculta del cambio climático y, en...

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Disease-causing parasites can hitch a ride on plastics and potentially spread through the sea, new research suggests

  • Written by Karen Shapiro, Associate Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, Davis
imageThe sticky biofilms that form on microplastics can harbor disease-causing pathogens and help them spread.Tunatura/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Typically when people hear about plastic pollution, they might envision seabirds with bellies full of trash or sea turtles with plastic straws in their noses. However, plastic pollution poses another threat...

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Going underground: Ukraine's subterranean fighters highlight the benefit -- and long history -- of tunnels in warfare

  • Written by Paul J. Springer, Professor of Comparative Military Studies, Air University
imageUkrainian fighters entering a tunnel.Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty Images

Faced with the prospect of sending Russian troops into subterranean combat, Vladimir Putin demurred. “There is no need to climb into these catacombs and crawl underground,” he told his defense minister on April 21, 2022, ordering him to cancel a planned storming...

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Linking protected areas from Yellowstone to the Yukon shows the value of conserving large landscapes, not just isolated parks and preserves

  • Written by Charles C. Chester, Lecturer in Environmental Studies, Brandeis University
imageFresh grizzly bear tracks in Yellowstone National Park.Jacob W. Frank, NPS/Flickr

As human development spreads ever farther around the world, very few large ecosystems remain relatively intact and uninterrupted by highways, cities or other human-constructed obstacles. One of the largest exceptions is the Yellowstone to Yukon region, or Y2Y, which...

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How Robert Langer, a pioneer in delivering mRNA into the body, failed repeatedly but kept going: 'They said I should give up, but I don't like to give up'

  • Written by Robert Langer, Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
imageRobert LangerPat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

The mRNA vaccines developed against COVID-19 owe a lot to the work of Robert Langer, a pioneer in the delivery of mRNA. Langer, who is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology David H. Koch Institute Professor and director of the Langer Lab, helped lay the foundation for the underlying...

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Even once female Ukrainian refugees reach safety, they face new burdens as single heads of household

  • Written by Dilek Cindoglu, Professor of Sociology, Fulbright Fellow, Georgetown University
imageA Ukrainian family crosses into Slovakia on Feb. 25, 2022. PETER LAZAR/AFP via Getty Images

Russia’s war on Ukraine is, in many ways, a war on women. The fact that most women do not fight on the battlefield does not mean that their war experiences are less traumatic than male soldiers’ realities.

Most of the 5 million Ukrainian refugees...

Read more: Even once female Ukrainian refugees reach safety, they face new burdens as single heads of household

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