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,...
Fact Check: is education spending at the highest level on record?
May 05, 2017 01:40 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The level of funding going into schools is at record levels. Prime Minister Theresa May in an interview with Andrew Marr on the BBC on April 30, 2017. As she hit the campaign trail, Theresa May repeated a claim she...
May 05, 2017 01:37 am UTC| Insights & Views
Kim Jong Un is a smart cookie, President Donald Trump said recently of North Koreas leader. Hes 27 years old, Trump mused. His father dies, [he] took over a regime. So say what you want but that is not easy. Kim, who...
How did health insurance get so complicated? Here are some answers
May 05, 2017 01:34 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
With the passage of the Republicans health care act, the House of Representatives seems to be saying that coming up with a plan to insure Americans really wasnt all that hard after all. It just took a bit more of a subsidy...
Sustainable shopping: here's how to find coffee that doesn't cost the Earth
May 05, 2017 01:29 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Shopping can be confusing at the best of times, and trying to find environmentally friendly options makes it even more difficult. Welcome to the first instalment of our Sustainable Shopping series, in which we ask experts...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects