Clark University

Founded in 1887, Clark University is a liberal arts-based research university that prepares its students to meet tomorrow’s most daunting challenges and embrace its greatest opportunities. Through 33 undergraduate majors, nearly 30 advanced degree programs and nationally recognized community partnerships, Clark fuses rigorous scholarship with authentic world and workplace experiences that empower our learning community to pursue lives and careers of meaning and consequence. Clark’s academic departments and institutes develop solutions to complex global problems across the disciplines, and the university addresses the behavioral health of adolescents and young adults through the Mosakowski Institute for Public Enterprise.

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It’s hard for the average person to understand reporting about campaign finance. ekinyalgin, iStock/Getty Images Plus

8 rules to help you understand what campaign finance reporting reveals about influence and support – or doesn’t

Campaign spending is confusing, but there are basic rules to help you understand information about money in elections. They can help you determine what is corruption and what is just regular politics.
Le sultan Ahmed al Jaber, PDG de la compagnie pétrolière nationale des Émirats arabes unis, dirigera la conférence des Nations unies sur le climat COP28. Francois Walschaerts/AFP via Getty Images

Comment le magnat du pétrole qui préside la COP28 compte porter les ambitions des pays du Sud

Une analyse des précédentes présidences des COP suggère que le programme des Émirats arabes unis pourrait apporter une contribution inédite à la sortie des énergies fossiles.
Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber, CEO of the United Arab Emirates’ state oil company, will be leading the COP28 United Nations climate conference. Francois Walschaerts/AFP via Getty Images

Backlash to the oil CEO leading the UN climate summit overlooks his ambitious agenda for COP28 – and concerns of the Global South

An analysis of past UN conference presidencies suggests the 2023 summit’s agenda would do more to accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels.
American downtowns were facing headwinds even before the pandemic began. Mark Davidson

San Jose and the reemergence of the donut city

Post-pandemic pressures are compounding stresses cities were already facing, leading to the hollowing out of some American cities.
A family photo of Andrea Yates, her husband and four of their five children. Yates killed all five by drowning them in a bathtub in 2001. Photo Courtesy of Yates Family/Getty Images

What’s behind our enduring fascination with wives and mothers who kill?

The framing of these stories of murder and mayhem have remained remarkably consistent since the invention of the printing press – and may reveal our own hidden fears and desires.
Temporary shelters have been set up near neighborhoods in the Idlib province demolished by the Syria-Turkey earthquake. Omar Haj Kadour/ AFP via Getty Images

Syria’s earthquake survivors struggle in a disaster made far worse by civil war, bombed‑out hospitals and currency collapse

The earthquake that struck Turkey and neighboring Syria on Feb. 6, 2023, was a natural disaster, but its consequences have been shaped by the human tragedy of the Syrian civil war.

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