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Voices+Opinion

Book cover of
Reality Writes
Published Winter 2023
A writer, a physicist, and a philosopher walk into a bar ... replace "bar" with "book" and you have the gist of The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Panelists on a stage during a recent about whether the United States still needs race-based affirmative action.
Politics+Society
Does the U.S. still need affirmative action?
Published Nov 22, 2023
Experts deliberated the pros and cons of race-based affirmative action in a debate open to the public hosted by Johns Hopkins University's SNF Agora Institute
screen shot of a Johns Hopkins Congressional Briefing Series video
Congressional briefing
Studying the healing power of psychedelics
Published Nov 21, 2023
JHU Congressional Briefing panelists explain how the controlled substances could transform mental health treatment
Three soldiers walk among the ruins of buildings in Gaza
Humanitarian health
Experts discuss toll of Middle East conflict
Published Nov 20, 2023
Israel-Hamas war has resulted in mass civilian casualties, psychological trauma, and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people, humanitarian health experts say
Paula Neira, program director of LGBTQ+ Equity and Education, Johns Hopkins Medicine
Diversity+Inclusion
A path to authenticity
Published Nov 15, 2023
Paula Neira, the program director of LGBTQ+ Equity and Education at Johns Hopkins Medicine, shares her journey from a dream job in the Navy to a life of service, purpose, and impact beyond
Panda cub Xiao Qi Ji wrestling with his mom
Q+A
Is panda diplomacy over?
Published Nov 8, 2023
For the first time in over 50 years, the panda enclosure at the National Zoo will be empty. What does that mean for U.S.-China relations?
Lines of computer code in white, green, red, and yellow are shown on a black screen
3 questions
New executive order regulating artificial intelligence
Published Nov 2, 2023
Johns Hopkins cybersecurity expert Anton Dahbura discusses the sweeping order meant to harness the potential—and anticipate the risks—of artificial intelligence
U.S. Supreme Court building in the fall
Q+A
Do guns belong in the hands of domestic abusers?
Published Oct 24, 2023
Kelly Roskam of the Center for Gun Violence Solutions discusses a major firearms case before the Supreme Court
Five experts in a Zoom discussion
Video
Experts discuss developing events in Middle East
Published Oct 13, 2023
Hopkins scholars offer perspective and analysis of the Israel-Gaza conflict and what it means for the Middle East, the U.S., and the world
air balloon tied with percentage symbol flying high rising up in the sky
3 questions
Taming inflation in the U.S.
Published Oct 11, 2023
Economist Laurence Ball discusses the Fed's next move and whether it can achieve the sought-after 'soft landing'