The 2025 deportation of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador was a chilling sign of how easy it is for US presidents to sidestep the constitution.
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You can compare throwing one of these ancient dice to a coin toss – although this discovery also underscores that dice are much older than coins.
Retour sur la longue histoire de la résistance civile au Soudan et sur la manière dont les réseaux communautaires et les mouvements de jeunesse jettent les bases d’un retour à l’ordre pacifique dans un pays marqué par une profonde fragmentation politique.
The Trump administration is once again threatening to withdraw the US from Nato, citing the reluctance of the alliance to join the Iran war.
We look at Sudan’s long history of civilian-led resistance, and how community networks and youth movements are laying the foundations for re-establishing peaceful rule in a country marked by deep political fragmentation.
The Trump administration’s unclear goals in Iran will make finding an early off-ramp from the conflict difficult.
Iranian attacks are degrading the interceptor stocks of the US and its allies.
History tells us that a lack of understanding of war on the part of US presidents has often causec friction with their military commanders.
A terapia psicodélica frequentemente promete experiências místicas transcendentais. Mas pesquisas sugerem que o contexto e a expectativa podem ser mais importantes do que a viagem em si.
Psychedelic therapy often promises transcendent mystical experiences. But research suggests context and expectation may matter more than the trip itself.
Até recentemente os físicos em geral acreditavam que o tempo era uma característica básica do Universo, mas ele pode simplesmente emergir da informação cósmica.
The appeal to serve on the board of an NPO may be an emotional one: service and meaning. But hard questions must be answered before taking the step.
Physicists long believed time was a basic feature of the universe. But it may just emerge from cosmic information.
The prevailing narrative that feeding the world is the preserve of industrial agriculture is based on flawed logic.
Crise de la démocratie et crise de la vérité sont liées. Mais nous vivons aussi une crise du sens, distincte, qu’exploitent les ennemis de la démocratie.
Blaming Pretti’s death on the fact that he was carrying a gun contradicts the second amendment to the US constitution.
Scientists question whether alarming reports of plastic particles in human organs are accurate or the result of laboratory contamination.
La Russie et la Chine diffusent et promeuvent des contenus qui présentent les États occidentaux comme chaotiques, immoraux, ou tout simplement absurdes.
The US has captured the Venezuelan president, but whether this will lead to wholesale regime change remains unclear.
In practice, most of our experiences of shared realities are not involved in truth. Think of myths, neighbourly feeling, or the sense of community.
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Lecturer in History and International Studies, Leiden University
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Assistant Professor, Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA), Leiden University
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Research Fellow, The Netherlands Institute for the Near East, Leiden University
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PhD Candidate in English Literature, Leiden University
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Assistant Professor of Art and Architecture Before 1600, Leiden University
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Professor of Technological Innovations in Neuropsychology, Leiden University
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Research Fellow in the Institute for History, Leiden University
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Neuropsychology, Leiden University
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Assistant Professor, Department of Health, Medical and Neuropsychology, Leiden University
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PhD student, Governance and Global Affairs, Leiden University
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PhD Candidate, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University
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Assistant Professor, Ecology, Leiden University
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Assistant professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science, Leiden University
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Research Fellow in Anthropology, Leiden University
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Guest Researcher, Centre for Arts in Society, Leiden University