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Drone strikes hit Moscow and Kyiv – in the growing world of drone warfare, anything goes when it comes to international law

Tara Sonenshine, Tufts University

As drone strikes become a more routine part of warfare, a set of rules or standards that can help determine how they are used in warfare is needed, writes a former US diplomat.

US Army Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas’ journey from enslaver to Union officer to civil rights defender

Christopher Justin Einolf, Northern Illinois University

A Southerner, Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas was a racist enslaver before the Civil War. But he fought for the Union because he prioritized his oath to defend the Constitution over state interests.

Street scrolls: The beats, rhymes and spirituality of Latin hip-hop

Alejandro Nava, University of Arizona

Latino artists have been forging their own paths in hip-hop for decades, giving voice to young peoples’ pain, faith and demands for change.

What is Theravada Buddhism?

Brooke Schedneck, Rhodes College

Theravada Buddhism is the dominant religious system in several parts of South and Southeast Asia, but there is a rich diversity of beliefs and practices in this tradition.

Summer reading: 5 books that explore LGBTQ teen and young adult life

Jonathan Alexander, University of California, Irvine

A scholar of young adult fiction presents a fresh list of LGBTQ ‘must-reads’ for the summer of 2023.

Most super rich couples have breadwinning husbands and stay-at-home wives, contrasting sharply with everyone else

Jill Yavorsky, University of North Carolina – Charlotte; Sarah Thebaud, University of California, Santa Barbara

While most heterosexual couples are dual-earners, super rich couples continue to have gender-traditional arrangements in which the man is the sole breadwinner.

Amid fears of Chinese influence, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States has grown more powerful

Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology

President Joe Biden signed an executive order in 2022 tightening the rules for foreign investment in the US.

How the sounds of ‘Succession’ shred the grandeur and respect the characters so desperately try to project

Delia Casadei, University of California, Berkeley

Composer Nicholas Britell festoons earnest Romantic music with sounds that gleefully desecrate it, underscoring the show’s emotional core: a lust for power joined by immense self-loathing.

Cytomegalovirus lies dormant in most US adults and is the leading infectious cause of birth defects, but few have heard of it

Laura Gibson, UMass Chan Medical School

Although testing for CMV during pregnancy isn’t routine and there isn’t universal screening for infants, there are steps pregnant people can take to protect themselves and their newborns.

‘Man, the hunter’? Archaeologists’ assumptions about gender roles in past humans ignore an icky but potentially crucial part of original ‘paleo diet’

A little-understood sleep disorder affects millions and has clear links to dementia – 4 questions answered

What really started the American Civil War?