Highlighting 'good and bad' debt will make it harder to fund social programs
May 05, 2017 02:00 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
In the forthcoming budget, the net operating balance will be reported alongside the underlying cash balance. This change has important policy implications because it creates a strong bias towards public spending on...
You can tell more about a person from their Facebook page than by actually meeting them
May 05, 2017 01:58 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
We judge people all the time. Research shows that when we first meet someone, we instantly use features such as their attractiveness and facial expressions to form an opinion about how approachable and trustworthy they...
How pre-existing conditions became front and center in health care vote
May 05, 2017 01:55 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Pre-existing conditions became the focus of debate on the American Health Care Act, which was narrowly passed 217-213 by the House of Representatives May 4, 2017. The debate led to bitter disagreement, as Republicans...
Court ruling is a first step toward controlling air pollution from livestock farms
May 05, 2017 01:52 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Editors note: Most livestock farming in industrialized countries takes place on large enclosed farms, known in the United States as Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs), that house hundreds or thousands of...
Rewriting NAFTA has serious implications beyond just trade
May 05, 2017 01:47 am UTC| Insights & Views
President Donald J. Trump has called the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) our worst trade deal. After flip-flopping between scrapping NAFTA altogether and saying that the agreement only required tweaks,...
Fact Check: is education spending at the highest level on record?
May 05, 2017 01:40 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The level of funding going into schools is at record levels. Prime Minister Theresa May in an interview with Andrew Marr on the BBC on April 30, 2017. As she hit the campaign trail, Theresa May repeated a claim she...
May 05, 2017 01:37 am UTC| Insights & Views
Kim Jong Un is a smart cookie, President Donald Trump said recently of North Koreas leader. Hes 27 years old, Trump mused. His father dies, [he] took over a regime. So say what you want but that is not easy. Kim, who...
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