Andrés Manuel López Obrador will be sworn into office on Saturday, five months after a landslide victory in Mexico’s 2018 presidential election. Since July, the incumbent President Enrique Peña Nieto has all but disappeared from the public eye. Obrador, however, has been offering asylum and temporary work permits to refugees, pushing his legislative priorities and deciding the fate of major infrastructure projects. Luis Gómez Romero is
concerned about the president-elect’s disregard for constitutional restrictions and how he might use his executive power once in office.
And Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson offers us a window into one woman’s struggle for survival in Bangladesh – a country ravaged by the effects of climate change.
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Broken campaign promises have supporters wondering whether Andrés Manuel López Obrador will follow through on his commitment to ‘transform’ Mexico.
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Luis Gómez Romero, University of Wollongong
In the five months since Mexicans elected the leftist firebrand to 'transform' their country, Andrés Manuel López Obrador has frustrated his base, worried investors and snubbed the Constitution.
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Sahia moved to Singpur with her husband, where they planned to build a life.
Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson
Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson, University of Sussex
Sahia and her husband hoped to start a life in Singpur, a village in Bangladesh. But the riverside community found climate change made putting down roots impossible.
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Science + Technology
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Mathieu Duval, Griffith University; Mohamed Sahnouni, National Center for Research on Human Evolution (CENIEH)
Ancient stone tools found in what is now Algeria show early humans likely spread across Africa more rapidly than first thought.
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Health + Medicine
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Clare Oliver-Williams, University of Cambridge
Having children is linked to a greater risk of heart attacks and stroke, but kids aren't completely bad for your health.
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Education
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Katherine G Merrill, Johns Hopkins University
The UN has declared all violence against children a violation of human rights. But it still happens even in schools.
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Cities
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Anne Cleary, Griffith University
Moves to connect people with nature for both the conservation and health benefits point to the need for people to experience nature as they find it in the city, rather than only out in natural areas.
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Business + Economy
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James Lake, Southern Methodist University
Boasting the world's biggest and strongest economy, the U.S. has enormous leverage when it sits down with a partner to negotiate a trade deal. Threats and tariffs are not really helping.
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