What could a My Health Record data breach look like?
Jul 24, 2018 17:08 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Last week marked the start of a three-month period in which Australians can opt out of the My Health Record scheme before having an automatically generated electronic health record. Some Australians have already opted...
Mexican anti-poverty program targeting poor women may help men most, study finds
Jul 24, 2018 17:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
Economic empowerment programs that target women may have an unintended effect: They help men instead. A growing number of economic development programs worldwide provide cash specifically to women in poor communities....
Alcohol: why we should call time on airport drinking
Jul 24, 2018 16:55 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
As the alcohol industry continues to make healthy profits, Britain is left counting the increasing cost of its unhealthy relationship with booze. From overstretched accident and emergency departments to a steady incidence...
Why the world should be worried about the rise of strongman politics
Jul 24, 2018 16:25 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Back in 2016, The Financial Times Gideon Rachman advanced the view in a commentary for The Economist that the strongman style of leadership was gravitating from east to west, and growing stronger. Across the world from...
How the Mormon church's past shapes its position on immigration today
Jul 24, 2018 16:24 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
On July 24, 1847, Brigham Young and 146 other Mormon pioneers made their way into the Salt Lake Valley. They had left the United States and found themselves in Mexican territory. At the time, the Mexican-American War...
Migrants are still buying into the dream of home ownership, but it's becoming more elusive
Jul 24, 2018 16:22 pm UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
Recent Australian migrants are buying into the Great Australian Dream of home ownership. But rates of home ownership among recent migrants are falling, as they are among all Australians. Unless we build enough housing to...
Norovirus: a summer outbreak could lead to a winter crisis
Jul 24, 2018 16:06 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Apparently there is a bug going around. Local and national press are reporting unusually high numbers of people suffering with diarrhoea and vomiting in Britain this summer. The reports suggest that this is a short-lived...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects