How Snoop Dogg became Swansea City’s most unlikely asset

Snoop Dogg’s Swansea City investment shows how celebrity capital can reshape lower-league football’s global reach.

Cultural appropriation? How westerners have worn indigenous clothing for a variety of reasons throughout history

The famous images of T.E. Lawrence in Arab robes in the second decade of the 20th century reveal a radical act of solidarity ...

Big beautiful refund? 5 tax code changes that may put more money in your pocket

Those who stand to benefit from the changes in tax code include workers who earn tips, those receiving overtime pay, ...

I’ve studied MAGA rhetoric for a decade, and this is what I see in Hegseth’s boasts, action‑movie one‑liners and gloating over dominance

Why does Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brag and gloat in his statements about the Iran war? In the MAGA media world, war is ...

What does the appendix do? Biologists explain the complicated evolution of this inconvenient organ

The appendix has independently evolved at least 32 times across 361 mammalian species. What makes it an evolutionary darling ...

Four ways to tackle health and climate together – and lift millions of people out of poverty

Health and climate action can be designed together, supporting and reinforcing each other, instead of being treated as ...

Why do mountaintops stay snowy, even though they’re closer to the Sun?

The answer has to do with the air we breathe and that bright white snowpack, as an atmospheric scientist in Colorado explains ...

Mau Mau: how Kenya’s history of colonial violence speaks through living bodies and graves

The Mau Mau uprising, rooted in land dispossession and political repression under British colonial rule, escalated into a ...

Social media can draw attention to atrocities – a key factor in reducing risk of recurrence

Social media is often blamed for stoking violence. But it can play a positive role by drawing attention to atrocities – both ...
The Conversation

We are in a digital version of the enclosures – like the landowners, big tech has power without responsibility

Nana Nwachukwu is on the Advisory Board of the Digital Democracy Initiative and the Tech Project Women's Initiative (TechHerNG). Her PhD research is funded through the AI Accountability Lab at Trinity ...

The story of the first telephone call – nine words that changed the world

Alexander Graham Bell was not the only person trying to invent the telephone. But 150 years ago, he won the race – just – and ...