Economic coercion once ousted Iran’s leader – but that was the 1950s; don’t expect a repeat today
By Eric Lob, Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations, Florida International University, The Conversation · November 10, 2026

A two-year blockade imposed on Iran by Britain gave way to a coup and leadership change. But seven decades later, circumstances are very different.
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US national debt keeps rising after years of tax cuts – and this will make policymaking all the more difficult
By Hinckley Jones-Sanpei, Public Policy Researcher, University of Denver · 2h ago

When a Walmart closes, what happens to nearby stores?
By Vivek Astvansh, Associate Professor of Quantitative Marketing and Computational Data Science, Binghamton University, State University of New York, Preetinder Kaur, Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Guelph, Pushpinder Gill, Assistant Professor of Marketing, Toronto Metropolitan University · 2h ago

COP31: Governments are failing to rein in emissions from their own power plants
By Don Grant, Professor of Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder · 2h ago