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Why Apple, Disney, IKEA and hundreds of other Western companies are abandoning Russia with barely a shrug

Douglas Schuler, Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University; Laura Marie Edinger-Schons, University of Mannheim

Over 300 companies so far have closed stores, reassigned staff or halted sales in Russia in the two weeks since the invasion began.

China’s balancing act on Russian invasion of Ukraine explained

Joseph Torigian, American University

Beijing and Moscow have had a cozy relationship of late. A scholar of China-Russia diplomacy explains how Ukraine might affect that.

A wave of grassroots humanitarianism is supporting millions of Ukrainian refugees

Elizabeth Cullen Dunn, Indiana University

The Ukrainian crisis is probably the biggest crowdsourced humanitarian aid operation ever undertaken.

Ukraine’s Twitter account is a national version of real-time trauma processing

Jessica Maddox, University of Alabama

How do a country and its citizens deal with the trauma of a deadly invasion by an enemy? Memes, cats and TikToks are emerging – most recently in the Ukraine war – as a way to cope with tragedy.

Supreme Court inches towards deciding whether state legislatures can draw congressional districts largely free of court oversight

Henry L. Chambers Jr., University of Richmond

Justices declined GOP requests to block court-approved congressional maps in North Carolina and Pennsylvania. But justices punted a bigger question over the role of courts until after the midterm elections.

Why daylight saving time is unhealthy - a neurologist explains

Beth Ann Malow, Vanderbilt University

By altering the body’s internal clock, ‘springing forward’ may contribute to an increase in heart attacks and strokes.

Long COVID leaves newly disabled people facing old barriers – a sociologist explains

Laura Mauldin, University of Connecticut

As COVID-19 survivors join the ranks of people with disabilities, they could have a long wait to get the support they need.

What’s a natural burial? A Christian theologian explains

Beth Hoeltke, Concordia Seminary

Green burial is not a new concept, but it is gaining interest among consumers, and some religious groups are leading the way. A theologian explains what’s involved and who natural burials appeal to.

Russian church leader puts the blame of invasion on those who flout ‘God’s law,’ but taking biblical law out of its historical context doesn’t work

Samuel L. Boyd, University of Colorado Boulder

The Bible and its laws were complex and not practiced in the way many of us think about laws today.

Lungs have their own microbiome – and these microbes affect the success of bone marrow transplants in kids

Matt Zinter, University of California, San Francisco

Disruptions to the lung microbiome are linked to a number of respiratory conditions in both children and adults.

Why some women are traveling to South Korea to find boyfriends

Min Joo Lee, Wellesley College

Inspired by the sensitive, handsome men they see on TV in their favorite K-dramas, they travel abroad in pursuit of a ‘soft’ masculinity they say they can’t find at home.

Even mild cases of COVID-19 can leave a mark on the brain, such as reductions in gray matter – a neuroscientist explains emerging research

A brief history of Babi Yar, where Nazis massacred Jews, Soviets kept silence and now Ukraine says Russia fired a missile

In 2014, the ‘decrepit’ Ukrainian army hit the refresh button. Eight years later, it’s paying off