Why African Autocracies Promote Women as Leaders (Oxford University Press, 2025) by Aili Mari Tripp contrasts authoritarian countries with democracies in Africa to explain how and why autocracies prom...

Bayreuth International Graduate School for African Studies (BIGSAS) at the University of Bayreuth, together with DAAD German Academic Exchange Service, is offering two fully funded scholarships, fo…

It will take a concerted effort by every sector of our society to respond to Trumpism’s threat.

International students say they are deleting social media, keeping their views to themselves and staying on campus to avoid being deported.

Oscar winner Julianne Moore claims her children’s book “Freckleface Strawberry” was banned by the Department of Defense’s Education Activity, a global network of 160 schools serving military families.

The American Association of University Professors and others argue in a new lawsuit that the executive orders violate the Constitution.

What comes after democratic breakdown.

Trump could propose slashing agency’s budget by two-thirds

Elon Musk grew up with the privileges of a stratified racial order and Peter Thiel lived in a city that venerated Hitler

Hearing from federal government employees as they make sense of their future

The contractors helped enact programs that focus on building up civil society and democratic practices in authoritarian states such as China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela and Cuba.

The US National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing turmoil.

Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

USAID health programs are designed to support countries to strengthen health system functions across multiple sectors, health topics, disease areas, and public health threats.

Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.

Grantee accounts remain frozen, while union accuses NSF of ignoring rules governing peer review

Grantee accounts remain frozen, while union accuses NSF of ignoring rules governing peer review

Mala Htun, an author who taught at the University of New Mexico for over a decade, died Friday after living with cancer the last few years.

The “stop-work orders” appear to apply to US aid for all countries except Israel and Egypt.