women pandemic

Psychological Effects of the Pandemic on Women

By Lea Laue and Michael Palocz-Andresen Measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic largely brought public life to a standstill from mid-March 2020 around the world....
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More Innovation Can Creatively Destroy Firearm Violence

By Dan Prud'homme We need more investment in two types of technologies that could dramatically reduce gun violence in America: better non-lethal arms and a...
Disparities

How We Should Talk about Racial Disparities

By Natalie Spievack and Cameron Okeke Many 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have emphasized the role of historical and contemporary discrimination in creating and perpetuating disparities...
Social Media

Asian Pop Culture May be Trending, But so is Anti-Asian Racism and Discrimination

By Katherine Lee From K-beauty to K-pop, Squid Game and Shang Chi, Asian pop culture is trending worldwide. Nancy Wang Yuen, a sociologist and author of Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors...
Tokyo Olympics

The Olympics strive for political neutrality. So, how will they deal with surging athlete...

By Dr. Michelle O’Shea, Dr. Daryl Adair, Hazel Maxwell, and Dr. Megan Stronach The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has long tried to insulate itself from...
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Playing Genocide Politics: The Zenz-Xinjiang Case

By Dr Dan Steinbock Recently, the Trump and Biden administrations have initiated a genocide case against China. Like during the Cold War, some European leaders...
Biden Harris

Who is Kamala Harris, Joe Biden’s pick for vice president?

By Bryan Cranston Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has announced Kamala Harris as his running mate for the 2020 election — the first woman of colour to...
Anti-Asian racism

Anti-Asian racism during coronavirus: How the language of disease produces hate and violence

By Paula Larsson Self-isolation. Quaratine. Lockdown. The outbreak of COVID-19 and its subsequent dissemination across the globe has left a shock wave of disbelief and confusion...