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Rural areas are struggling. Rural poverty is increasing as jobs in agriculture, manufacturing, and resource extraction dry up. Small communities are shrinking: losing churches, schools, dentists, doctors,...
Can editing an encyclopedia of stage directors be anything but an impossible task? Simon Williams (UC Santa Barbara) and I were invited to consider such an undertaking just under a decade ago; Simon had...
The incessant rate at which the world is changing is causing greater levels stress, especially for youth. Shared global challenges such as climate change, threats of disease, political unrest, the rise...
How can individual freedom be historicised in the context of twentieth-century Europe? When setting out to answer this question I found myself grappling with the following problem: on the one hand, contemporaries...
Artificial intelligence and machine learning have enabled widespread automation of government decision-making in Western liberal democracies. Yet vulnerable populations have been seriously harmed because...
The right to freedom of thought was a neglected right until recently. It was so overlooked that although article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and article 9 of the European...
We are well aware how dramatically and rapidly a single innovation can change our lives. The smartphone has rapidly altered communication, access to information, navigation, photography and more. We know...
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) dominate clinical research. Among many research designs, RCTs are often considered the gold standard—the most credible and respected form of evidence. In fact, authors...
The prohibition of torture is a peremptory norm of international law, while the prohibition of other ill-treatment is at least of a customary law nature. However, although this is clear, the precise parameters...
What are we talking about? In recent years, sustainability and sustainable finance have become central public and academic debates. A growing number of laws, policies, and regulations have been introduced...
When I sat down to write Fighting Grand Corruption, I didn’t think I’d be writing it not just about Latin America (with a smattering of other countries) but also about my own country, the United States....
It is rare that a television show becomes truly ubiquitous, but since its release, Adolescence has been talked of almost everywhere in the UK – even Parliament (March 22nd, 2025). Indeed, the series...
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