Jakana Thomas is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Michigan State University. Thomas’s research focuses on political violence with an emphasis on the behavior of violent non-state actors.
The United States bears its share of responsibility for this crisis that is destroying Ukraine and placing the world in "unprecedented danger," as the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' new Doomsday Clock statement calls it.
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances are a growing concern because of the many health impacts associated with exposure and their tendency to persist in the human body for months to years and in the environment for thousands of years.