The Normalization of Antidemocratic Extremism in the United States Joe Biden began his presidency on the steps of a heavily guarded Capitol, encircled by miles of austere barbed wire.…
The Topography of Wellness: How Health and Disease Shaped the American Landscape The COVID-19 pandemic has re-ignited discussions of how architects, landscapes, and urban planners can shape the environment in response to…
Climate Manipulation? Not All ‘Solutions’ Should be Advanced As the Biden-Harris administration advances an all-of-government approach to the worsening climate crisis, we need to acknowledge that not all…
Human Decisions Still Needed in Artificial Intelligence for War The NSCAI maintains that a global treaty that prohibits the development, deployment and use of artificial intelligence (AI) enabled weapons…
The Effect of Eviction Moratoria on the Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Abstract Massive unemployment during the COVID-19 pandemic could result in an eviction crisis in US cities. Here we model the…
Connecting Social Capital and Vulnerability: Citation Network Analysis of Disaster Studies Abstract A growing body of disaster scholarship uses qualitative and quantitative methods to illuminate the role of social capital and…
COVID-19 as Eco-Pandemic Injustice: Opportunities for Collective and Antiracist Approaches to Environmental Health Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has coincided with a powerful upsurge in antiracist activism in the United States, linking many forms…
Why You Should Expect More Suez-Like Supply Chain Disruptions and Shortages at your Local Grocery Store When the Ever Given container ship choked off traffic in the Suez Canal for almost a week in late March 2021, it made big headlines around the world.…
Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty Professor Martha Davis, faculty director for Northeastern Law’s Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy and the NuLawLab, is a co-editor of the…
It’s Okay Not to Be Okay After a year that feels like a big human behavior experiment requiring every ounce of resilience, creativity, and fortitude we can muster,…
No Refuge: Ethics and the Global Refugee Crisis Syrians crossing the Mediterranean in ramshackle boats bound for Europe; Sudanese refugees, their belongings on their backs, fleeing overland into…
Effective Leadership Several years ago a reporter for a Mobile newspaper asked me what were the essentials for community resilience. My answer…
