Institute for European Studies director Mabel Berezin joined Dora Mengüç (Dora Reports) before France's high-stakes parliamentary elections to discuss Europe's shift to the right. 

Can an increase in knowledge ever be bad? A Royal Society Open Science paper from Kaushik Basu (CRADLE) theorizes that it can be—when people use it to act in their own self-interest.

Amanda Rodewald (LACS) describes how cocaine trafficking threatens two-thirds of the most important bird habitats in Central America. Her team's research appeared in the journal Nature Sustainability in June.

"One of history’s largest operations to confiscate children to force-assimilate them is currently under way in China’s colonized territories," writes Magnus Fiskesjö in a CETNI report published July 19.

Voice of America's International Edition podcast talks with Matthew Evangelista (PACS) about how Russia's recent deliberate attacks on civilians violate the Geneva Convention.

Magnus Fiskesjö has published a chapter on the politics of labeling genetic populations in China in a new open-access book, Critical Perspectives on Ancient DNA, from MIT Press.

GPV fellow Alexandra Dufresne argues universities should protect free speech by weighing immigration costs for international student protesters.

In The Hill, CRADLE director Kaushik Basu argues for Congressional approval of a much-anticipated pandemic agreement. He writes, "It is imperative that global cooperation trump nationalist attitudes."

Magnus Fiskesjö has published a chapter on the Wa ethnic group in a new volume, Chasing Traces: History and Ethnography in the Uplands of Socialist Asia, edited by Pierre Petit and Jean Michaud.

Robert Hockett recently published a paper, The "Socialization of Investment," in CRADLE's new open-access Law and Economics Papers series.