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Gun violence across the U.S. is rampant, aided in no small part by an industry that resists measures to regulate sales. Yet not all firearms purchased in the U.S. stay there.
A new investigation explores the extent and consequences of the illicit trafficking of guns across the U.S. border into Mexico – a country struggling to contain gang violence. Investigative journalist Sean Campbell and Topher McDougal, a professor of economic development at the University of San Diego, sat down with Gemma Ware, the host of The Conversation Weekly podcast, to discuss their yearlong trawl of databases, court documents and interview transcripts to better understand how gunrunning across the U.S.-Mexico border works.
Among their findings: Around 135,000 guns are smuggled across the border annually. Campbell and McDougal also explain how this deadly U.S. export is fueling both gang violence and the drugs trade.
Elsewhere this week, we have been looking ahead to South Korea’s pivotal presidential election and casting an eye over how the humble pub game of darts became such a global phenomenon.
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Gemma Ware, The Conversation
Sean Campbell and Topher McDougal talk about their investigation into the flow of guns from the U.S. to Mexico on The Conversation Weekly podcast.
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Alexander M. Hynd, The University of Melbourne
South Korea has been in turmoil since former President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law and was impeached. Can the next leader bring the country back together?
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Susan Stone, University of South Australia
The ruling against the Trump administration was based on two separate lawsuits. But there’s little chance it will bring global trade chaos to an end.
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Simon Chadwick, EM Lyon Business School; Paul Widdop, Manchester Metropolitan University; Ronnie Das, The University of Western Australia
Two sides from two glamorous cities.
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Mark Edele, The University of Melbourne
An air war on civilians is the only means Putin currently has to pressure Ukraine. But history shows this tactic rarely ends wars.
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Johann Kirsten, Stellenbosch University; Wandile Sihlobo, Stellenbosch University
Incomplete and inaccurate official data provides fertile ground for radical statements.
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Richard Gunderman, Indiana University
The bizarre, homemade technology became a way to skirt censors in the Soviet Union – and even played an indirect role in its dissolution.
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Caitlin Macdonald, University of Sydney
Laura Elvery’s novel, Nightingale, invites us to see the legendary nurse not as a symbol, but as a person shaped by illness, desire, pain and time.
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Peter Kimani, Aga Khan University Graduate School of Media and Communications (GSMC)
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o emerged with a new era in African history and led the charge to decolonise literature and academic thinking.
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Joshua McLeod, Deakin University; Hunter Fujak, Deakin University
You may have seen darts’ crazy, costume-wearing fans in a packed stadium and wondered ‘how did the sport get so big?’
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