When Ebola cut its cruel swath through Sierra Leone in 2014 – ultimately killing thousands – aid workers fled the West Africa nation in droves to escape the outbreak. But the opposite urge overcame Jochen Moninger. He dug in. (more…)
After reading the news on world’s top medias, President Donald Trump calling actress Stormy Daniels ‘horseface’, I got curious and directly went through searchiing actress’s Instagram account. I was suspicous of something. (more…)
Wer kann, zieht dorthin, wo der Ruf gut ist. Familien mit Migrationshintergrund haben diese Wahl oft nicht. Wie sich die Wohngegend auf deren Lebensalltag auswirkt, wurde nun in einem vom Wissenschaftsfonds FWF geförderten Forschungsprojekt untersucht. (more…)
Asst. Prof. Kathleen Belew traces birth of hate groups to Vietnam War
The alt-right movement in America gained national headlines last fall when a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia turned deadly. (more…)
Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the Austrian city of Graz on Saturday on his way to Berlin for talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Mr. Putin was a guest at the wedding of Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl and Wolfgang Meilinger. (more…)
Optimism about the future of others is widespread even in the face of bad news — at least if the person is someone we care about. However, we can feel this optimism even for strangers if they possess a few admirable attributes, a new study by Yale and University of Oxford researchers suggests. (more…)
Examining a major road-building program in India, researchers at Princeton University and the Paris School of Economics used an innovative technique to show that political corruption increased the chances that roads meant to connect isolated areas to the rest of the country would never be built, even though the government had paid for them. (more…)
Can the president single-handedly toss out environmental rules designed to combat global warming? Force states like Washington to help enforce federal immigration laws? Fire Robert Mueller? (more…)
