In 1940s Hungary, there were two political parties—National Socialists on the right and communists on the left—typically depicted in mainstream media as extremist and prone to violence. They shared one crucial feature: both published joke magazines. Clearly envisioned as tools to recruit followers, their periodicals also served a broader purpose in transforming extremist ideas into commonsensical propositions for debate. Their rhetorical strategies were remarkably similar, consisting of three stages: 1) depicting disturbing conditions intended to inflame sentiments, 2) presenting a different view to convey the party’s preferred political stance, and finally 3) sketching ambitions for the future. Readers were led along a carefully orchestrated path into an alternative view of political possibilities, more effective for being dispersed along familiar avenues in Hungarian humor. The analysis is informed by the work of Jean-Paul Sartre, Sara Ahmed, and Thomas Szanto on the pleasures of hating and the allure of a community who hate together.

This paper reflects on the availability of a key document in the research integrity landscape: Reports of institutional and university misconduct investigations. It reviews how universities have typically responded to calls for disclosure, offers suggestions to mitigate concerns, and argues that the failure to release such reports creates a critical evidence gap. It closes with a call for disclosure of such reports as a default.

Multiple factors aligning in 2025 implicate challenges to vaccines as a primary public health intervention. Anti-vaccine proponents seek to recast immunization policies in promotion of perceived individual liberties. Recalibrating national vaccine approaches, however, runs counter to long-standing public health laws and policies grounded in a core truth: safe and effective vaccines save lives.

In an earlier work, we defined a “generalised Temperley–Lieb algebra” $TL_{r, 1, n}$ corresponding to the imprimitive reflection group G(r, 1, n) as a quotient of the cyclotomic Hecke algebra. In this work we introduce the generalised Temperley–Lieb algebra $TL_{r, p, n}$ which corresponds to the complex reflection group G(r, p, n). Our definition identifies $TL_{r, p, n}$ as the fixed-point subalgebra of $TL_{r, 1, n}$ under a certain automorphism $\sigma$. We prove the cellularity of $TL_{r, p, n}$ by proving that $\sigma$ induces a special shift automorphism with respect to the cellular structure of $TL_{r, 1, n}$. We also give a description of the cell modules of $TL_{r, p, n}$ and their decomposition numbers, and finally we point to how our algebras might be categorified and could lead to a diagrammatic theory.

The famous Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani (d. 1348), a basic source of information about his city and Europe, composed a detailed and overlooked account of a civil war among the Ḥafṣids, a North African Muslim dynasty, an event known primarily through the writings of Villani’s famous contemporary Ibn Khaldūn, an eyewitness. Villani’s account reveals a nuanced understanding of the social and cultural fabric of the Ḥafṣid Tunis that, paired with Ibn Khaldūn’s description, provides insight into Christian and Muslim Mediterranean perceptions. Villani viewed the conflict not as a faraway affair among nonbelievers but as emblematic of the universal effects of internecine family strife.