Supporting ‘democracy’ is hard for many who feel government and the economy are failing them
May 05, 2024 10:04 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Americans, it seems, can both value the idea of democracy and not support it in practice. Since 2016, academics and journalists have expressed concerns that formerly secure democracies are becoming less democratic....
To make AI safe, governments must regulate data collection
May 05, 2024 08:06 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently announced a $2.4-billion investment in artificial intelligence. Part of the funding will create an AI Safety Institute. But what is AI safety? Many countries, including...
Kenya’s devastating floods expose decades of poor urban planning and bad land management
May 03, 2024 00:04 am UTC| Insights & Views
Floods in Kenya killed at least 169 people between March and April 2024. The most catastrophic of these deaths occurred after a flash flood swept through a rural village killing 42 people. Death and destruction have also...
China set to blast off to the far side of the Moon – here’s what it could discover
May 03, 2024 00:04 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
China is attempting to recover the first ever soil and rock samples from the lunar far side. The surface mission, Change 6, named after the Chinese Moon goddess Change, is a predecessor to the successful sample return...
What the Supreme Court is doing right in considering Trump’s immunity case
May 03, 2024 00:03 am UTC| Insights & Views Law Politics
Following the nearly three-hour oral argument about presidential immunity in the Supreme Court on April 25, 2024, many commentators were aghast. The general theme, among legal and political experts alike, was a...
Electricity from farm waste: how biogas could help Malawians with no power
May 03, 2024 00:02 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
In sub-Saharan Africa, over 600 million people (more than 50% of the population) are without access to electricity. Malawi has one of the worlds lowest electricity access rates just 14.1% of the total population have...
US student Gaza protests: five things that have been missed
May 03, 2024 00:01 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Coverage of the recent student encampments at more than 50 universities across the United States has focused on confrontations between opposing groups of protesters or between protesters and police. The spectacle 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’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects