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Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in an ice hockey match between former NHL stars and officials at the Shayba Arena in Sochi, Russia, in 2015. A patriarchal notion of masculinity has been central to Putin’s rule. (AP Photo/Artur Lebedev)

April 11, 2022

Vladimir Putin, the czar of macho politics, is threatened by gender and sexuality rights

Valerie Sperling, Clark University; Alexandra Novitskaya, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York); Janet Elise Johnson, Brooklyn College, and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom, University of British Columbia

Putin has been consumed with presenting a hyper-macho image throughout his presidency. And in recent years, he’s ramped up sexist and LGBTQ-phobic rhetoric.

Les Cayes in south-western Haiti was hardest hit by the August 2021 earthquake. Orlando Barria/EPA

September 9, 2021

Haiti’s history of political fragility makes its recovery from disaster even harder – podcast

Gemma Ware, The Conversation and Daniel Merino, The Conversation

Plus, new research chronicling the experiences of Japanese Americans interned by the US government during the second world war. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.

Police patrol outside the Embassy of Taiwan in Port-au-Prince on July 9, 2021, after 11 suspected assassins of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse broke into its embassy in an attempt to flee. Valerie Baeriswyl/AFP via Getty Images

August 27, 2021

Assassinations and invasions – how the US and France shaped Haiti’s long history of political turmoil

Jean Eddy Saint Paul, Brooklyn College

Local power struggles and strong US interests have long shaped political leadership – and presidential assassinations – in Haiti, limiting nation-building projects on the Caribbean island.

Students involved with the Resilient Schools Consortium in New York City quickly grasped the need for climate resiliency in their school buildings. Students from Mark Twain Intermediate School are seen here in October 2017. (Heather Sioux)

December 1, 2019

Students become school boiler-room sleuths to assess climate change risks

Jennifer D. Adams, University of Calgary; Alexandra Gillis, Brooklyn College, and Brett Branco, Brooklyn College

After Hurricane Sandy, educators in New York City partnered with environmental and governmental organizations to put youth at the centre of preparing for risks and hazards in their school buildings.

The KKK assembled in Portland, Maine, in 1923. Library of Congress

August 16, 2018

Charlottesville belies racism’s deep roots in the North

Brian J Purnell, Bowdoin College and Jeanne Theoharis, Brooklyn College

One year after Charlottesville’s white supremacist march, US racism is seen primarily as a Southern-grown problem. But Jim Crow laws started in the North, which has a long history of systemic racism.

A combination of education and care makes Sweden’s early childhood education so much better than Australia’s. Ebba Dahlqvist

March 5, 2015

Why Swedish early learning is so much better than Australia’s

Monica Nilsson, Jönköping University; Beth Ferholt, Brooklyn College, and Karin Alnervik, Jönköping University

Most people have heard that Finland leads the world in education, but fewer have heard that Finland’s neighbour, Sweden, is the international leader in early childhood education and care.

Turkey erupts in protest at the death of a 15-year-old boy. Depo photos/EPA

March 12, 2014

Turkish students and academics treated as state’s enemy within

Louis Fishman, Brooklyn College

Demonstrations have broken out across Turkey following the death of Berkin Elvan, a 15-year-old boy, who fell into a coma during last summer’s Gezi park protests after he was struck in the head by a teargas…

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