In the midst of a tumultuous year, scholars are busy with many issues, from the rise of right populism and nationalism in Europe and the US to the implications of a post-fact political era, the nightmarish media landscape where words can mean whatever you want them to, and the long-term impact on employment from new technologies from surveillance to robots. But there are also a handful of other big questions that are keeping them busy.
Two years after Hurricane Katrina, the city of New Orleans looks nothing like it did 20 years ago. Ashley Ludlow followed her mother’s wishes and did not allow her to be resuscitated. The case raised important questions about due process in the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration arrests.