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Women watching online attacks may understand political reporting as a source of personal danger. Surface/Unsplash

Online attacks on Kenyan journalists: what makes audiences join in, push back or stay silent

Whether the public rallies to defend journalists can depend on whether audiences believe they deserve that support.
Workers at Los Angeles International Airport on 9/11 watch news coverage of the terrorist attacks. Lee Celano/AFP via Getty Images

Your memories of how you heard about 9/11 may well be wrong – we’ve been asking the same people what they remember for 25 years

Memories are dynamic, not fixed. Even if what you’re remembering about your own experience isn’t quite how it all happened, those memories serve important roles.
After nearly a year-long gap, the CDC again has a permanent director. James Gathany, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention via Wikimedia Commons

The CDC has a new director – now comes the hard part

Amid multiple disease outbreaks and intense political pressures, Director Erica Schwartz will need to defend scientific independence.
Pesquisa mostra que a crença no demérito dos pobres ainda é grande entre as elites brasileiras – e pesa na hora de rejeitar políticas redistributivas. Foto: Lyon Santos/MDS/Reprodução

Pobres não merecem Bolsa Família? Por que a polêmica vigora, apesar das evidências

Pesquisa mostra que a crença no demérito dos pobres ainda é grande entre as elites brasileiras – e pesa na hora de rejeitar políticas redistributivas
Police clear the campus of Brooklyn College on May 8, 2025, after students established an encampment to protest the Gaza war. Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images

Chilling effects of Trump’s war on free speech extend far beyond campus walls – and that’s the point

A persistent government strategy to sow fear through punitive measures has corroded freedom and democracy.
The Ontario government is closing supervised drug consumption sites throughout Ontario. Ontario Premier Doug Ford, seen here in the Legislature during Question Period on March 24, 2026, has called the sites a failed experiment, but the evidence is mixed. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn 

Ontario is closing its supervised consumption sites, calling them a failure. So what counts as ‘success?’

Supervised consumption sites have real shortcomings. But the government’s case for closing them relies on a narrow definition of success and abandons the people the sites were designed to reach.

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