Women’s football has made great strides in recent years. Attendances at the women’s FA Cup final continue to set new records. One survey suggested that one-third of adults are interested in the women’s game and 69% of those believe it deserves the same profile as men’s football. However, the coronavirus pandemic has left
When crowds of people return without fear to public events, they’ll be hungry for musicals and symphonies, street festivals and First Fridays. But ready and willing as they are, Denver’s best-known cultural nonprofits have grown increasingly nervous about their uncertain future. For the past three months, social distancing and thousands of canceled events
John Williams, University of Leicester What were you doing 30 years ago? Were you even born? Let me mark your card here. Research at CERN in Switzerland by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989-90 would eventually result in the World Wide Web, linking hypertext documents into an information system accessible from any
As calls grow to defund or dismantle police departments in the wake of the death of George Floyd, questions about what that would look like — especially in cities with high crime rates — remain. In a Saturday interview on “Fox & Friends Weekend” with host Pete Hegseth, retired Dallas police officer C’mone Wingo said that imagining
This is how often you should wash your cloth face mask. USA TODAY As confirmed coronavirus cases across the globe exceeded 10 million early Sunday, face coverings continue to be a national flash point even though health experts recommend their use to stem the rate of transmission in the U.S. Viral video showed a maskless Trader Joe’s
The United States-Canada border has been closed to cross-border tourism and other non-essential travel for more than three months. Despite these restrictions, trucks and trains have continued crossing the border in droves, since commerce is considered an essential activity. Every week, Canada and the United States exchange billions of dollars of goods and
There are increasing fears for food security in East Africa, with mounting evidence of a new wave of desert locusts. Earlier in the year, billions of the insects destroyed crops across the region – with the UN warning a second generation would be even more destructive. Now, despite international efforts, those fears appear
Shoppers line up in front of a Zara clothing store waiting for the opening after being closed for nearly two months in Montréal on May 25, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson Frederic Dimanche, Ryerson University Retail was in trouble long before COVID-19 hit. The past five years saw daily reports of store closures
Akito Y Kawahara, University of Florida Editor’s note: According to recent press reports, two Asian giant hornets – a species not known to occur in North America – were found in northwest Washington state in late 2019, and a hornet colony was found and eliminated in British Columbia. Now scientists are trying to
Jeevun Sandher, King’s College London and Hanna Kleider, King’s College London Governments across the developed world have responded to the COVID-19 crisis by making welfare states vastly more generous. Historical parallels suggest that this munificence may endure even as the pandemic recedes. Welfare states will only, however, become permanently more generous if voters