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It is only since 2018 that Saudi women have been allowed to attend football matches. This photograph was taken before the kick-off of the 2023 Asian Cup match between Kyrgyzstan and Saudi Arabia at the Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium in Al-Rayyan, west of Doha, Qatar on January 21, 2024. Karim Jaafar/AFP

The smartphone in Saudi Arabia: between women’s empowerment and surveillance

In Saudi Arabia, smartphones offer women new avenues of empowerment, even as they remain tools of surveillance in a society where gender inequality persists.
The building in Media, Penn. where burglars in 1971 found evidence of decades of FBI abuses against citizens. Betty Medsger

Trump’s targeting of ‘enemies’ like James Comey echoes FBI’s dark history of mass surveillance, dirty tricks and perversion of justice under J. Edgar Hoover

Donald Trump has a partisan ally running the FBI. He’s urged retribution against his perceived enemies. Will today’s FBI repeat the vast, unconstitutional persecutions of the J. Edgar Hoover era?
Theatrical performances, like Denzel Washington, left, and Jake Gyllenhaal in ‘Othello’ at the Barrymore Theatre in New York, bring people together and help them reflect on shared experiences. (CJ Rivera/Invision/AP)

How Shakespeare can help us overcome loneliness in the digital age

While our culture is very different from Shakespeare’s London, his plays — and those by others — still carry the potential to bring people together and help us think deeply about our shared experience.
Chris Martin of Coldplay performs during Coldplay’s Music Of The Spheres World Tour at D. Y. Patil Sports Stadium in Navi Mumbai on Jan. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

Caught on the jumbotron: How literature helps us understand modern‑day public shaming

The online reaction to the extra-marital affair that was caught on the Jumbotron at a Coldplay concert raises the question: why does infidelity, especially among the powerful, provoke such public outrage?
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Scrapping the national census raises data sovereignty and surveillance fears for Māori

Social licence and consent are central to trust in state data systems. Changes to the way census information is gathered make this especially important for Māori.

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