The Brutalist Report

The Conversation

• What’s behind Trump’s flurry of executive action: 4 essential reads on autocrats and authoritarianism [202d]
• Commerce oversees everything from weather and salmon to trade and census − here are 3 challenges awaiting new secretary [202d]
• ¿Trump va en serio con cambiar el nombre del Golfo de México al ‘Golfo de América’? Esto explica una geógrafa [202d]
• Medical research depends on government money – even a day’s delay in the intricate funding process throws science off-kilter [202d]
• Engineering the social: Students in this course use systems thinking to help solve human rights, disease and homelessness [202d]
• Global wildlife trade is an enormous market – the US imports billions of animals from nearly 30,000 species [202d]
• The global wildlife trade is an enormous market – the US imports billions of animals from nearly 30,000 species [202d]
• Global wildlife trade is an enormous market – a look at the billions of animals the US imports from nearly 30,000 species [202d]
• Disaster evacuations can take much longer than people expect − computer simulations could help save lives and avoid chaos [202d]
• St. Thomas Aquinas’ skull just went on tour − here’s what the medieval saint himself would have said about its veneration [202d]
• In asking Trump to show mercy, Bishop Budde continues a long tradition of Christian leaders ‘speaking truth to power’ [202d]
• Nutrition advice is rife with misinformation − a medical education specialist explains how to tell valid health information from pseudoscience [202d]
• Getting mail to your door is just one part of what the postmaster general does [202d]
• Canada and Greenland aren’t likely to join the US anytime soon – but ‘GrAmeriCa’ is a revealing thought experiment [202d]
• Donors are down, but dollars are up – how US charitable giving is changing [202d]
• Happiness in poorer countries does not follow the typical U-shaped curve − people are often happiest in middle age [202d]