A Narrative of Resilience: How trauma-focused therapy is healing Ukrainian kids besieged by war
By Zlatina Kostova, Instructor in psychiatry, clinical psychologist and director of training at Lifeline for Kids, UMass Chan Medical School Childhood trauma is a global health problem. Every year, up to one billion children worldwide experience some form of...
Political Pawns: Why Russia kidnaps Ukrainian children when it is unable to care for its own
By Clementine Fujimura, Professor of Anthropology, Area Studies and Russian, United States Naval Academy Since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russian soldiers have forcibly taken an estimated 16,000 Ukrainian children to Russia....
Echoes of Holodomor: Award-winning documentary “Famine” banned by Russia for depiction of cruel past
By Jeremy Hicks, Professor of Russian Culture and Film, Queen Mary University of London In October last year, Russia banned a documentary depicting the famine that hit parts of the Soviet Union including Ukraine between 1921 and 1923 and revoked the film’s screening...
Ukraine tries to outsmart a brutal Russian army distracted by rebellion and infighting
The ambush had been postponed three times before Ukrainian commanders decided one recent night that conditions were finally right. Cloaked in darkness, a battalion of Kyiv’s 129th brigade pressed ahead, advancing stealthily on unsuspecting Russian soldiers. By...
Make America Russia: The ongoing efforts by MAGA Republicans to uphold a Christo-fascist movement
The GOP is increasingly clear about their goal: Make America Russia, or at least Russia’s mini-me, Hungary. They are openly embracing a modern, westernized, Christian white supremacy-based version of classic fascism. And the Trump-MAGA Republicans have a three-step...
Lurking fascism: How the conflation of “partisan” and “political” became a danger to liberal democracy
By Lawrence Torcello, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology “The personal is political!” is a well-known rallying cry, originally used by left-leaning activists, including feminists, to emphasize the role of government in personal lives...
True cost of E-commerce: Inside the black box of Amazon’s product returns
By Simone Peinkofer, Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management, Michigan State University E-commerce may make shopping more convenient, but it has a dark side that most consumers never see. Say you order an electric toothbrush for Father’s Day and two shirts for...
Kent Cooper: How a journalism titan of 20th-century led Associated Press to transform the news industry
By Gene Allen, Adjunct Professor, Journalism/Communication and Culture, Toronto Metropolitan University On the day of Kent Cooper’s funeral in February 1965, the flow of news through the international Associated Press network, the institution he spent a 40-year career...
Infringement or fair use? Why generative AI is a minefield for U.S. copyright law
By Robert Mahari, JD-PhD Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Jessica Fjeld, Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School; and Ziv Epstein, PhD Student in Media Arts and Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) In 2022, an AI-generated work of art...
Study finds unprecedented global warming could cause Himalayan glaciers to lose 80% of their volume
Glaciers are melting at unprecedented rates across the Hindu Kush Himalayan mountain ranges and could lose up to 80% of their current volume this century if greenhouse gas emissions are not sharply reduced, according to a new report. The report in June from...
Rents on the Rise: Eviction filings in some cities are 50% higher than they were pre-pandemic
Entering court using a walker, a doctor’s note clutched in his hand, 70-year-old Dana Williams, who suffers serious heart problems, hypertension and asthma, pleaded to delay eviction from his two-bedroom apartment in Atlanta. Although sympathetic, the judge said...
When homes flood: Why distance and race play a role in FEMA buyouts after a natural disaster
By James R. Elliott, Professor of Sociology, Rice University; and Zheye (Jay) Wang, Senior Spatial Research Analyst, Kinder Institute for Urban Research, Rice University After Hurricane Ida hit New Orleans in 2021, Kirt Talamo, a fourth-generation Louisianan, decided...
