The other opioid crisis -- people in poor countries can't get the pain medication they need
Mar 26, 2016 06:28 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
There are two opioid crises in the world today. One is the epidemic of abuse and misuse, present in many countries but rising at an alarming rate in the United States. The other crisis is older and affects many more people...
Obama's Argentine trip helps heal old wounds – and lends Macri a hand
Mar 26, 2016 06:26 am UTC| Insights & Views
Coming after his historic trip to Cuba, President Obamas visit to Argentina was meant to be an add-on, a show of US approval for recently elected President Marcelo Macri. But thanks to what may have been a mere scheduling...
Will voters' fear of terrorism propel Trump to the White House?
Mar 26, 2016 06:25 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics Law
The Islamic States bombing of an airport terminal and subway station in Brussels, Belgium on March 22 horrified the world. But Donald Trump saw a silver lining in the latest terrorist atrocity. During an interview a few...
Belgium has divided and decentralized itself almost out of existence
Mar 26, 2016 06:23 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Only days after the arrest of Salah Abdeslam, one of the Belgian-based organizers of the Paris attacks in November 2015, Brussels was rocked by two suicide attacks that killed more than 30 people and injured more than...
How to transform workers' campaign rage into better jobs and wages
Mar 25, 2016 02:12 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
The presidential campaigns deserve some credit for finally voicing some of the deep frustrations and anger felt by American workers who have lived for decades in an economy that works for those at the top but not for them...
Cheap gas could delay America's efficiency targets for cars and trucks
Mar 25, 2016 02:10 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Cars and trucks in the United States are supposed to achieve great fuel efficiency gains over the next decade. But now that gasoline prices have plunged, those plans may be delayed. In 2012, the National Highway and...
Mar 25, 2016 02:04 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Beginning in 2010, mathematics and English language arts standards, called the Common Core State Standards, were adopted in 45 of 50 U.S. states. The Common Core Standards represent a substantial change from what was in...
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