Trump’s Carrier coup reveals credibility gap between Twitter rhetoric and economic reality
Dec 01, 2016 02:49 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy Business
In a political coup, President-elect Donald Trump says that his transition team has struck a deal with Carriers Indianapolis plant to keep 1,000 jobs in the state. Big day on Thursday for Indiana and the great workers...
It's good the government will report GDP per capita, but it shouldn't stop there
Dec 01, 2016 02:35 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The governments horse trading over legislation with the senate will have a profound effect on the way the government reports economic data. Part of the governments agreement with Senator Leyonhjelm to support the...
No politician can singlehandedly bring back coal – not even Donald Trump
Dec 01, 2016 02:23 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
On the night Donald Trump won the US election, one of the many jubilant supporters featured in the media coverage was 67-year-old Doug Ratliff of Richlands, Virginia. An owner of struggling shopping malls in a region hit...
Why coal-fired power stations need to shut on health grounds
Dec 01, 2016 02:13 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
The Senate inquirys report into the planned closure of coal-fired power stations will no doubt shed light on the compelling health reasons to close them. Coal-fired stations are a health hazard to their local...
A licence to print: how real is the risk posed by 3D printed guns?
Dec 01, 2016 02:05 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
3D printed guns are back in the news after Queensland Police reported last week that they had discovered a 3D printer in a raid on what appeared to be a large-scale weapons production facility as a part of Operation Oscar...
Why literature matters in debate about race and immigrants
Dec 01, 2016 01:48 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
The people who voted for Donald Trump did so for a variety of reasons, but chief among them was the sense of their having been economically abandoned for several decades. Trump has promised to restore their economic...
Mexicans are migrating, just not across the US border
Dec 01, 2016 01:36 am UTC| Insights & Views
Mexican migration to the U.S. is in decline. The Pew Hispanic Research Center has found that since 2009, more than one million native-born Mexicans living in the U.S. returned to Mexico. But many other Mexicans never...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects