Is China the new cool? How Beijing is using pop culture to win the soft power war
IShowSpeed, a 20-year-old American YouTuber and internet star, recently livestreamed hourslong tours of Chinese cities including Beijing and Shanghai, showcasing the locations to some of his nearly 40...
Shaoyu Yuan, Research Scientist at the Division of Global Affairs, Rutgers University - Newark
From Doing Business to B-READY: World Bank’s new rankings represent a rebrand, not a revamp
The 2025 spring meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund takes place in Washington, D.C.Bryan Dozier/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty ImagesIn 2021, the World Bank shut dow...
Fernanda G Nicola, Professor of Law, American University
Justice Department lawyers work for justice and the Constitution – not the White House
The U.S. flag flies above Department of Justice headquarters on Jan. 20, 2024, in Washington. J. David Ake/Getty Images In the 1970s, President Richard Nixon tried to fire the Department of Justice pr...
Cassandra Burke Robertson, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Professional Ethics, Case Western Reserve University
From help to harm: How the government is quietly repurposing everyone’s data for surveillance
Immigration enforcement is a key justification for repurposing government data.Photo by U.S. Immigra…
Trump is stripping protections from marine protected areas – why that’s a problem for fishing’s futu…
The coral reefs of Palmyra Atoll, part of Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument, provide…
Controlled burns reduce wildfire risk, but they require trained staff and funding − this could be a …
Prescribed burns like this one are intentional, controlled fires used to clear out dry grass and und…
Trump administration pauses new mine safety regulation − here’s how those rules benefit companies as…
Federal officials in white hard hats speak with miners in an Indiana coal mine in 2015. AP Photo/Tim…
Stripping federal protection for clean water harms just about everyone, especially already vulnerabl…
A Des Moines Water Works employee takes samples from a nearby river for analysis. The regional water…
Habeas corpus: A thousand-year-old legal principle for defending rights that’s getting a workout und…
Two Latin words – 'habeas corpus' – protect any person, whether citizen or not, from bei…
A warning for Democrats from the Gilded Age and the 1896 election
Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller administers the oath of office to William McKinley during his p…