Helping student activists move past 'us vs. them'
May 05, 2017 02:04 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Protest turned violent on the Berkeley and Middlebury campuses; students shouted down speakers at MacMaster University and UCLA and blocked entry to a talk at Claremont McKenna: These are among the many recent incidents...
China’s Eurasian gambit needs to be taken seriously
May 05, 2017 02:01 am UTC| Insights & Views
Later this month, 28 heads of government, plus many hundreds of others will gather in Beijing for the Belt and Road Summit. Leaders from Europe, Africa, and Asia will gather in the Chinese capital as part of an elaborate...
Highlighting 'good and bad' debt will make it harder to fund social programs
May 05, 2017 02:00 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
In the forthcoming budget, the net operating balance will be reported alongside the underlying cash balance. This change has important policy implications because it creates a strong bias towards public spending on...
You can tell more about a person from their Facebook page than by actually meeting them
May 05, 2017 01:58 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
We judge people all the time. Research shows that when we first meet someone, we instantly use features such as their attractiveness and facial expressions to form an opinion about how approachable and trustworthy they...
How pre-existing conditions became front and center in health care vote
May 05, 2017 01:55 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Pre-existing conditions became the focus of debate on the American Health Care Act, which was narrowly passed 217-213 by the House of Representatives May 4, 2017. The debate led to bitter disagreement, as Republicans...
Court ruling is a first step toward controlling air pollution from livestock farms
May 05, 2017 01:52 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Editors note: Most livestock farming in industrialized countries takes place on large enclosed farms, known in the United States as Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs), that house hundreds or thousands of...
Rewriting NAFTA has serious implications beyond just trade
May 05, 2017 01:47 am UTC| Insights & Views
President Donald J. Trump has called the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) our worst trade deal. After flip-flopping between scrapping NAFTA altogether and saying that the agreement only required tweaks,...
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
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight