"Soleimani’s killing is also roiling Iran – including some people who don’t necessarily follow military affairs – for religious and cultural reasons related to the country’s Shii Muslim history," writes Deina Abdelkader, University of Massachusetts Lowell (Jan. 15th, 2020)
"It’s common for people to focus on their health at the start of the year. But few consider the well being of the microbes that live inside the human gut – the microbiome – which are vital to an individual’s good health," write Connie Rogers, Pennsylvania State University and Darrell Cockburn, Pennsylvania State University (Jan. 15th, 2020)
Because we are living in an age of unprecedented surveillance, here's a quick video where Shoshana Zuboff defines "Surveillance Capitalism" (Jan. 15th, 2020)
"Zuboff, a professor emerita from Harvard Business School known for her research on information technology in the workplace, set a monumental task for herself," writes Sam DiBella, London School of Economics (Jan. 15th, 2020)
"In addition to sharing so many donors, Castro and Warren have two of the highest ratios of women donors," writes Brian Johnson, Center for Responsive Politics (Jan. 15th, 2020)
This article was written by the same distinguished scholar whose piece we initially featured (found below) on the topic of Iran. However, this article has been written after the Iranian response, and both pieces are worth reading (Jan. 8th, 2019)
"President Donald Trump’s policy toward Iran is in deep crisis. The president’s approach has the support neither of America’s allies nor of its strategic rivals, China and Russia. And his policy – made even more confrontational by the shooting of a high-ranking Iranian official – has boxed him into a situation where, short of dramatic reversal, Washington and Tehran are edging close to war," writes Klaus W. Larres, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Jan. 8th, 2020)
"I watched as the intelligence was cooked, as principals in the George W. Bush government were sold by that intelligence or helped to warp that intelligence... I’m watching the same thing again," says Lawrence Wilkerson, retired United States Army colonel, who served as Secretary of State Colin Powell’s chief of staff from 2002 to 2005 (Jan. 8th, 2020)
"Thirty years later, perhaps it’s time to assess just how well the United States has fulfilled the expectations President Bush articulated in 1990. Personally, I would rate the results somewhere between deeply disappointing and flat-out abysmal," writes Andrew Bacevich, Boston University, President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft (Jan. 8th, 2020)