Is bottom-pinching still 'indecent' by today's community standards?
Apr 03, 2019 10:18 am UTC| Insights & Views Life Law
In a recent court case in Western Australia, Magistrate Michelle Ridley ruled that in an era of twerking and easy access to pornography, a police officer pinching a womans backside is not indecent assault. Heres what...
DOJ efforts to kill Obamacare, the cat with 9 lives, could cause health care havoc for millions
Apr 01, 2019 17:28 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
If the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, were a cat, it would be just about be out of its nine lives. It is amazing that this law, which represented a sea change in how we provide care to almost everyone in the...
Why pay transparency alone won't eliminate the persistent wage gap between men and women
Apr 01, 2019 17:13 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
No matter how you slice the data, women in the U.S. earn a lot less than men. A typical woman working full-time makes 81 cents for every dollar a man earns, little more than the 77 cents she got a decade ago. Within...
Medicaid work requirements: Is there a path forward that could help the poor, not harm them?
Apr 01, 2019 17:09 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health Law
Just days after the 9-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, the Obama administrations defining accomplishments continues to dominate American politics. President Trump enthusiastically declared on March 26, 2019,...
Mar 25, 2019 13:56 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
The Indonesian public is rejecting the governments alleged plan to restore an old doctrine imposed under Soehartos authoritarian New Order regime. This doctrine, known as the militarys dual function, allowed the military...
Mar 25, 2019 13:55 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Recent incidents aside, air travel is incredibly safe these days. Global airplane fatalities averaged 840 a year from 2010 to 2018, compared with almost 2,000 in the 1990s. In fact, this decade is on pace to see the...
Cars are regulated for safety – why not information technology?
Mar 25, 2019 13:52 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology Law
As the computing industry grapples with its role in society, many people, both in the field and outside it, are talking about a crisis of ethics. There is a massive rush to hire chief ethics officers, retool codes of...
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