Publications

Author: Sarisha Harikrishna January 6, 2026 Demonstrators dressed in indigenous clothing hold anti-climate change placards. [Image credit: Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/Lightrocket via Getty Images] Climate Displacement and the Threat of Statelessness Between the slow and almost imperceptible violence of rising seas and the immediate, destabilizing urgency of mass displacement, climate change has asserted itself not merely as an environmental issue confined to the natural sciences.

Author: Ronald Nsubuga, MS December 31, 2025 Introduction Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming economies, governance, and social life with the potential to advance sustainable development in Africa (Mienye, Sun, & Ileberi, 2024). The African Union AI strategy posits that AI adoption on the continent will solve the urgent challenges in healthcare, agriculture, education, finance, and public service delivery (African Union [AU], 2024). While AI adoption presents

Author: Olivia Weninger December 30, 2025 [Image source: MediaMister] Summary Videos that fat-shame, stereotype, or place newborns in odd real-world situations are rampant in Instagram reels and TikTok feeds designed for children. Although such content is not conducive to childhood development, young children are consuming it in large quantities every day in this unregulated digital nursery. Meanwhile, the rapid advancement of AI and generation of AI-created videos is adding

Author: Gabrielle Meyers December 24, 2025 In what Human Rights Watch  characterizes as “misaligned with international human rights law,” the 2025 US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids have targeted both citizens and immigrants in a way that undermines their human rights , such as due process, equal protection, and freedom from arbitrary detention.  [Image credit: Ricardo Arduengo / AFP via Getty Images] Out of those with US citizenship, Puerto Ricans in particul