Hundreds of Aboriginal men who became native mounted police in colonial Australia carried a significant…
How Chinese People Came Together When Separated by Quarantine, Creating Hope, Humor and Art
Fear and blame appear to be fast becoming Americans’ defining emotions around COVID-19. Headlines seem to offer either worst-case estimates or government leaders’ mutual accusations. Amid the bewildering figures and contradictory political…
Even a Limited India-Pakistan Nuclear War Would Bring Global Famine
The concept of nuclear winter–a years-long planetary freeze brought on by airborne soot generated by nuclear bombs–has been around for decades. But such speculations have been based largely on back-of-the-envelope calculations involving…
Limited Nuclear War Could Have Big Impact on World Food Supplies
A war between India and Pakistan using less than 1 percent of nuclear weapons worldwide could lead to the worst global food losses in modern history, according to a Rutgers co-authored study…
I Was in China Doing Research When I Saw My Uighur Friends Disappear
Recently leaked Chinese government documents reveal how local officials targeted Muslim minorities in China. Satellite images show that many of them have been held in detention camps across the vast Uighur homeland…
Trump Treats the Military as His Own – and the Troops Could Suffer
As the effort to end the U.S. war in Afghanistan continues to unfold, public support for the military as an institution has remained high, as has appreciation for service members themselves. After…
