Clock running out on health program for 9 million kids
Sep 22, 2017 03:54 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics Health
Since the inauguration of President Trump, health care has been front and center in American politics. Yet, attention has almost exclusively been focused on the Affordable Care Act, most recently in the form of...
Whose interests? Why defining the 'public interest' is such a challenge
Sep 22, 2017 03:38 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy Politics
The public interest is a political concept thats regularly trotted out along with other democratic principles such as transparency and accountability. And, like transparency and accountability, its difficult to pin down...
Developing countries can prosper without increasing emissions
Sep 22, 2017 03:35 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
One of the ironies of fighting climate change is that developed countries which have benefited from decades or centuries of industrialisation are now asking developing countries to abandon highly polluting...
Vital Signs: don't count your economic chickens before they hatch
Sep 22, 2017 03:33 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data affecting...
Every year, millions try to navigate US courts without a lawyer
Sep 22, 2017 03:32 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Judge Richard A. Posner, a legendary judicial figure, retired abruptly earlier this month to make a point: People without lawyers are mistreated in the American legal system. In one of his final opinions as a judge on...
Q&A: how cities can recover from natural disasters
Sep 22, 2017 03:29 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
In the space of a month, hundreds of lives have been lost due to natural disasters. Mexico was hit by two high-magnitude earthquakes within two weeks, while swathes of the US and the Caribbean have been severely damaged or...
Lessons from KPMG: be on guard, South Africans are on your case
Sep 22, 2017 03:26 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Moses came down from the mount with tablets inscribed with 10 commandments. Most of us know (most of) them, and most of us fail to live by (most of) them. But if Moses had turned them over and looked in the fine print on...