Analysis: Here is a summary of significant articles published on ForeignAffairs.co.nz on June 28, 2025.
MIL-OSI Global: Supreme Court upholds childproofing porn sites
Source: The Conversation – USA – By Meg Leta Jones, Associate Professor of Technology Law & Policy, Georgetown University The Supreme Court greenlights states’ efforts to block kids from online porn by requiring age verification. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision on June 27, 2025, that will reshape how […]
MIL-Evening Report: RFK Junior is stoking fears about vaccine safety. Here’s why he’s wrong – and the impact it could have
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julie Leask, Professor, School of Public Health, University of Sydney The United States used to be a leader in vaccine research, development and policymaking. Now US Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr is undermining the country’s vaccine program at the highest level and supercharging vaccine skepticism. […]
MIL-OSI Global: What the Supreme Court ruling against ‘universal injunctions’ means for court challenges to presidential actions
Source: The Conversation – USA – By Cassandra Burke Robertson, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Professional Ethics, Case Western Reserve University A journalist runs out of the U.S. Supreme Court building carrying a ruling on the last day of the court’s term on June 27, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Chip Somodevilla/Getty […]
MIL-OSI Analysis: The psychology of debt in Squid Game – and what your love or hatred of the show means
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Edward White, PhD Candidate in Psychology, Kingston University “Mister. Would you like to play a game with me?” These seemingly innocuous words to debt-ridden Gi-hun (Lee Jung-Jae) by a mysterious recruiter (Gong-Yoo) lead him to an opportunity for financial salvation – at the expense of human lives, including […]
MIL-OSI Analysis: Five surprising facts about AI chatbots that can help you make better use of them
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Cagatay Yildiz, Postdoctoral Researcher, Cluster of Excellence “Machine Learning”, University of Tübingen Robert Way / Shutterstock AI chatbots have already become embedded into some people’s lives, but how many really know how they work? Did you know, for example, ChatGPT needs to do an internet search to look […]
MIL-OSI Analysis: China is constructing a new hero cult – here’s why that matters
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Vincent K.L. Chang, Assistant Professor of the History and International Relations of Modern China, Leiden University A tour guide competition was held in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late May. This was not some fun contest. According to Chinese state media, it was a carefully conceived […]
MIL-OSI Analysis: Why experts expect Russian interference in upcoming election on Ukraine’s borders
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Stefan Wolff, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham When Moldovans go to the polls in parliamentary elections on September 28, it will be the third time in less than a year – after a referendum on future EU membership and presidential elections last autumn. In both of […]
MIL-OSI Analysis: Climate, conflict and energy security – our research shows how the EU’s industrial policy must change to face this polycrisis
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Richard Bärnthaler, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Ecological Economics, University of Leeds Green energy sites like Flevoland in the Netherlands will be part of the EU’s industrial future. fokke baarssen/Shutterstock Industrial policy is back – it’s currently central to the agendas of both the EU and the UK. This […]
MIL-OSI Analysis: The UK has published a ten-year industrial strategy to boost key sectors of the economy – here’s what the experts think
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Michael A. Lewis, Professor of Operations and Supply Management, University of Bath PBabic/Shutterstock The UK government has published a ten-year strategy outlining how it aims to boost productivity and innovation across eight key sectors of the economy. From the future of AI to energy security and net zero, […]
MIL-OSI Analysis: What a 19th-century atlas teaches me about marine ecosystems
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Ruth H. Thurstan, Associate Professor in Marine and Historical Ecology, University of Exeter Ruth Thurstan holds the Piscatorial Atlas Credit: Lee Raby, CC BY-NC-ND What stands out most about the book I’m carrying under my arm, as I meander through the exhibits at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall […]
MIL-OSI Analysis: Netflix drama ‘Secrets We Keep’ exposes the dangers of domestic migrant work
Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Reena Kukreja, Associate Professor, Global Development Studies, Queen’s University, Ontario In Secrets We Keep, the hidden world of domestic work and abuse is exposed. Here Excel Busano who plays Angel, Cecilia’s au pair and Ruby’s best friend in Denmark speaks with her community on the phone. Tine Harden/Netflix […]
MIL-OSI Global: Back to the Future at 40: the trilogy has never been remade – let’s hope that doesn’t change
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Daniel O’Brien, Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies, University of Essex It has now been four decades since Marty McFly first hit 88 miles per hour in a time-travelling DeLorean. Robert Zemeckis’s sci-fi adventure blockbuster didn’t just navigate the space-time continuum onscreen (thanks to the flux […]
MIL-OSI Global: What Danish climate migration drama, Families Like Ours, gets wrong about rising sea levels
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Florian Steig, DPhil Student, Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford In the Danish TV drama Families Like Ours, one melancholic line from high-school student Laura captures the emotional toll of climate displacement: “Soon we will vanish like bubbles in a creek.” This seven-part series imagines a near […]
MIL-OSI Analysis: The UK’s plan to genetically test all newborns sounds smart — until it creates patients who aren’t sick
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Luca Stroppa, Postdoctoral Fellow on the project “Early Diagnosis – Handling Knowing”, University of St Andrews The current heel-prick test checks for nine rare genetic conditions, antibydni/Shutterstock By 2030, every baby born in the UK could have their entire genome sequenced under a new NHS initiative to “predict […]
MIL-OSI Analysis: Chaotic new aid system means getting food in Gaza has become a matter of life – and often death
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Leonie Fleischmann, Senior Lecturer in International Politics, City St George’s, University of London With all eyes on the ceasefire between Israel and Iran, which came into effect 12 days after Israel launched a major attack on Iran’s nuclear and military structure, attention towards Gaza has waned. This is […]
MIL-OSI Analysis: Could the first images from the Vera Rubin telescope change how we view space for good?
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Professor Manda Banerji, Professor of Astrophysics, School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Southampton We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its extraordinary ability to map the universe in breathtaking detail. It is set […]
MIL-OSI Analysis: Labour’s disability cuts rebellion: a former government whip asks, how did Keir Starmer not see this coming?
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Tony McNulty, Lecturer/Teaching Fellow, British Politics and Public Policy, Queen Mary University of London Under pressure. Flickr/UK Parliament, CC BY-NC-ND The government has promised to make major concessions to its universal credit and personal independence payment bill after a large-scale and very public rebellion by Labour MPs threatened […]
MIL-OSI Analysis: Palestine Action: what it means to proscribe a group, and what the effects could be
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Brian J. Phillips, Reader (Associate Professor) in International Relations, University of Essex The UK’s home secretary, Yvette Cooper, plans to proscribe the protest group Palestine Action under anti-terror law. This move, if approved by parliament, would criminalise the group’s existence, making it a crime to be a member […]
MIL-OSI Analysis: Sixteenth-century tennis was a dangerous sport played with balls covered in wool
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Penny Roberts, Professor of Early Modern European History, University of Warwick Portrait of a young boy with a paletta and a ball, late 16th century, artist unknown. Wiki Commons/Canva In 1570, a Frenchman was arrested for smuggling clandestine correspondence between France and England. A passing comment in his […]
MIL-OSI Analysis: How strawberries and cream were a rare and exciting treat for Victorians – and then became a Wimbledon icon
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Rebecca Earle, Professor of History, University of Warwick Strawberries and Cream by Raphaelle Peale (1816). National Gallery of Art Wimbledon is all about strawberries and cream (and of course tennis). The club itself describes strawberries and cream as “a true icon of The Championships”. While a meal at […]