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The WPI blog offers an insider’s look at the fellows’ journeys, capturing their unique experiences and insights as they travel the country navigating the immersive program.
Policing of Nuclear Weapons Proliferation is Failing Without The U.S and Russia
Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists, a 75-year-old magazine created by scientists directly involved in the Manhattan Project, a U.S research project in 1942-45 that produced the first atomic bombs. These scientists decided, after being overruled on their suggestion to not use these bombs on a civilian population, that there was value in an organization that informed the public on the state of modern science and what was needed to reduce man-made threats to our existence.
China-U.S. competition need not erupt into war
China believes democracy is in decline and the era of a unipolar world order dominated by the United States is all but over. In that context, one...
Time seen as ally in sanctions vs. Russia
Are the sanctions, which have not deterred Vladimir Putin thus far, likely to be effective in Russia? Michael McFaul, an American academic and...
Should citizen journalists be called journalists?
With every citizen possessing a smartphone and capturing footage of public events or social encounters that might otherwise remain shrouded in...
Newsletters: an increasingly crowded media space
With nearly 3,500 unread emails, it’s almost impossible to clear my inbox. I have been subscribing to more and more newsletters over the past years....
Abortion debate might spark up the midterms
Many liberal Americans, as well as many liberal Finns in my home country, were shocked when they learned that the Supreme Court might overturn Roe...