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Sudan’s civil war has left at least 62,000 dead by our estimate − but the true figure could be far higher

The ongoing war in Sudan has often been overlooked amid higher-profile conflicts raging across multiple continents. Yet the lack of media and geopolitical attention to this 18-month-long conflict has ...

Sarah Elizabeth Scales, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Department of Environmental, Occupational, and Agricultural Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center - avatar Sarah Elizabeth Scales, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Department of Environmental, Occupational, and Agricultural Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center

With Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk and Donald Trump, Republicans’ ‘strict father’ has become the creepy uncle

Tucker Carlson at the Trump campaign rally at Madison Square Garden on Oct. 27, 2024. Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesWhen Tucker Carlson, the reactionary pundit fired in 2023 from Fox News, preceded Dona...

Karrin Vasby Anderson, Professor of Communication Studies, Colorado State University - avatar Karrin Vasby Anderson, Professor of Communication Studies, Colorado State University

New Orleans schools still separate and unequal 70 years after Brown v. Board of Education

First graders led the desegregation of New Orleans' public schools in November 1960.Bettmann via GettySixty-four years ago this November, public schools in New Orleans began to desegregate. School bui...

Connie L. Schaffer, Professor of Teacher Education, University of Nebraska Omaha - avatar Connie L. Schaffer, Professor of Teacher Education, University of Nebraska Omaha

A new president will be elected − but it may take some time to determine who wins

For more than 100 years, media of many kinds tried to be the first to report presidential election results. Although that urge still exists, pundits and analysts are now more concerned with accuracy t...

John M. Murphy, Professor of Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - avatar John M. Murphy, Professor of Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Scholar’s new rap album seeks to turn the tables on the ‘masters’ from the Old South

Could the path to the Ph.D. run through the recording studio?Ratchapon Supprasert via iStock / Getty Images Plus Usually when a rap artist comes out with a new album, it’s released by a record ...

A.D. Carson, Associate Professor of Hip-Hop, University of Virginia - avatar A.D. Carson, Associate Professor of Hip-Hop, University of Virginia