The Myanmar military seized control of the country and declared a year-long state of emergency. Security forces have detained thousands of civilians, and have killed over 700 people including more than 40 children.

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Both speakers made it clear that they supported the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, but they raised concerns over Biden's announcement.

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According to Citizen University Founder Eric Liu, those who hold power will prolifically and profusely explain to the masses why the current system must persist as is.

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University archeologist Laura Jones Ph.D. ’90 condemned Stanford’s past abuses of the indigenous Muwekma-Ohlone tribe and Chinese Americans at a Tuesday event.

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Known as the “Nobel Prize of Computing,” the award given by the Association of Computer Machinery recognizes “major contributions of lasting importance to computing.”

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Washington State Commissioner of Public Lands Hilary Franz urged that municipalities should incur much more financial responsibility for funding firefighters and local management agencies.

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Increased political polarization makes a country more vulnerable to the schemes of a “closet autocrat," an elected leader who implements authoritarian reforms in the disguise of advancing the functionality of his or her country.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping brought a new type of leadership in his rise to power, according to Jude Blanchett: “He was clearly frustrated with the kind of ostentatiousness of the Communist Party — the kind of formality of it.”

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Brit Harley’s path started to become clearer when she volunteered at Malcolm X Shabazz High School. She quickly found out that students at the school were not allowed to bring food or liquids for security reasons.

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Former CISA director Chris Krebs believes that both public and private entities must be involved in countering disinformation. He further proposed the creation of a “Counter Disinfo Czar,” a U.S. government position devoted to minimizing disinformation.

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Experts William A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen noted reparational precedents to support their case.

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The U.S. will have to determine the degree of competition and cooperation it engages China with despite ideological differences, a Brookings scholar said Wednesday

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Cornell University government professor Tom Pepinsky said that his primary issue with the current Indonesian administration rests in its lack of forbearance: restraint from using legal powers of the office.

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