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What Do Iranians Think About the Iran Nuclear Deal?

As the United States, Iran, and world powers inch closer to restoring the landmark 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal—formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)—issues like American interests,...

Assal Rad | 1 Sep 2022

The Scientific Collaboration that Brought Gaia to the World

With a two-page letter to the editor of the scientific journal Atmospheric Environment published in 1972, the English scientist and inventor James Lovelock (1919-2022) introduced Gaia into the professional...

Bruce Clarke, Sébastien Dutreuil | 1 Sep 2022

What Is Art?

What is art? That’s at the heart of a copyright dispute involving two artists who both did the same thing: tape a banana to a wall. A federal court in Florida waded into the issue in July. Beginning...

Mark Bartholomew | 30 Aug 2022

Q&A: An Exchange Rate History of the United Kingdom, 1945-1992

What do you find so interesting about sterling and currencies more broadly? The story of sterling after the second world war is fascinating as it is mirroring the decline of the British Empire. Sterling...

Alain Naef | 29 Aug 2022

Identity bytes: discovering donor conception online

Does it matter that you know who your genetic parents are, who you are related to, and how the story of your life began? Does it matter for your emotional wellbeing, or your feelings of connectedness...

Emily Postan | 29 Aug 2022

Has the Communist Party of China (CPC) increased its control over private corporations?

Numerous recent media reports have claimed that President Xi Jinping has greatly expanded the CPC’s presence in private business firms,1 with some giving estimates that 68% of private Chinese firms...

Colin S. C. Hawes | 23 Aug 2022

A tale of two elections: how “money politics” is shaped by national context

May 2022 in the Philippines. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. was running for president of the Philippines, in tandem with Sara Duterte, daughter of the term-limited incumbent, Rodrigo Duterte. Both...

Paul D. Hutchcroft, Allen Hicken, Meredith L. Weiss, Edward Aspinall | 23 Aug 2022

Q&A with David M. Greer, author of Successful Leadership in Academic Medicine

What inspired you to write Successful Leadership in Academic Medicine? Great question. To be honest, I was surprised to find out that there wasn’t already a book on this subject, and that people...

David M. Greer | 22 Aug 2022

The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism

The relationship of mathematics to biology is fascinating. Understanding why anti-evolutionist arguments fail can help us think clearly about this relationship.

Jason Rosenhouse | 19 Aug 2022

What’s New in Early Modern Europe Third Edition

Writing a new edition is always challenging, as there is always exciting new scholarship to incorporate and completely new directions and sub-fields to include. And then deciding what to cut, so the book...

Merry Wiesner-Hanks | 19 Aug 2022

Just Talking

What is a conversation?  And why should conversations matter to poetry?    (1) ‘They found you out?’                                                            ...

Elizabeth K. Helsinger | 19 Aug 2022

Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China

If one visits Shanghai’s iconic waterfront known as the Bund (or Waitan in Chinese) today, one immediately notices the many historical buildings that line the western side of the Huangpu River. Remnants...

Ghassan Moazzin | 19 Aug 2022