San Francisco is using a Montana sheriff's playbook to sue Trump on sanctuary cities
Apr 11, 2017 05:44 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics Law
San Francisco is suing over President Donald Trumps executive order against sanctuary cities. A federal court hearing is set for April 14, and a decision is expected soon after. The order, signed in January, defined...
Crushing the intellect: Pakistan's war on free speech
Apr 11, 2017 05:41 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Pakistani authorities have won another battle against free speech. The latest blow is just another consequence of harsh measures taken by Pakistans government in the last five years against freedom of speech. On March...
The key to writing a Pulitzer Prize-winning story? Get emotional
Apr 11, 2017 04:55 am UTC| Insights & Views
The 2017 Pulitzer Prizes have just been announced, and this years winners of the prestigious award include Charleston Gazette-Mail reporter Eric Eyre for his investigative report on the drug companies that flooded West...
Will Trump's cuts inspire more DIY foreign aid?
Apr 11, 2017 04:44 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Running on a shoestring budget, Future in Our Hands-USA helps people living almost 7,500 miles away in Kisumu, Kenya, get clean water from new wells. The tightly focused and volunteer-driven nonprofit based in Clarence,...
FactCheck: do 679 of Australia's biggest corporations pay 'not one cent' of tax?
Apr 11, 2017 04:36 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy Law
… 679 of our biggest corporations pay not one cent of tax. Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) Secretary Sally McManus, address to the National Press Club, Canberra, March 29, 2017. Speaking at the...
How to help migrants foster a new sense of belonging
Apr 10, 2017 14:04 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Belonging is tricky to define and hard to measure. Its the product of the stories we construct and the ways we orientate ourselves socially. It involves interactions, both intimate and public, and the evolution of shared...
Why ADHD can be a valuable bonus for entrepreneurs
Apr 10, 2017 13:59 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health Business
Entrepreneurship is about moving forwards. It involves branching out, a search for the new, starting a journey in which the destination is unknown. In a sense then, it is not an entirely rational process, in which actions...
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