Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
Apr 26, 2024 01:31 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Most American workers are hired at will: Employers owe their employees nothing in the relationship except earned wages, and employees are at liberty to quit at their option. As the rule is generally stated, either party...
Apr 26, 2024 01:31 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Given the spate of news about international trade lately, Americans might be surprised to learn that the U.S. isnt very dependent on it. Indeed, looking at trade as a percentage of gross domestic product a metric...
Ukraine recap: US$60 billion aid package brings fresh hope to desperate Kyiv
Apr 26, 2024 01:31 am UTC| Insights & Views
Across the broad sweep of history, its usually overly simplistic to talk about a single event as a turning point. This is especially the case in a conflict such as the one in Ukraine. So many factors geopolitical,...
Jordan has long been a beacon of stability in the Middle East – but that looks to be changing
Apr 26, 2024 01:30 am UTC| Insights & Views
Sat in the Wadi Araba in the baking midday sun, senior Jordanian officials and their Israeli counterparts signed a historic peace agreement in 1994 that ended decades of conflict between the two states. Witnessed by the...
US drugs regulator gives LSD ‘breakthrough’ status for treating anxiety – why this is so significant
Apr 26, 2024 01:29 am UTC| Insights & Views Business Health
LSD was accidentally discovered by Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz pharmaceutical company in Switzerland in 1938. It was apparently useless, but from 1947 it was marketed as a cure for everything from schizophrenia to...
Apr 25, 2024 06:50 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
In recent years, the global trade in elephant ivory has faced significant restrictions in an effort to protect dwindling elephant populations. Many countries have stringent controls on the trade of elephant ivory. The sale...
Apr 25, 2024 06:43 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
While some might think that family-run farms are a thing of the past, they are in fact the dominant business model in Europe. In 2020, they accounted for slightly more than 9 in every 10 of the EUs 9.1 million...
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