Belgian government saw terror attack coming so why did it fail to stop it?
Mar 23, 2016 17:29 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Its no secret that Belgium, and especially Brussels, has been a major hub of Islamic terrorist activity for more than a decade. Belgium provides the highest per capita number of fighters in the Syria conflict of any...
The history of student loans goes back to the Middle Ages
Mar 23, 2016 17:22 pm UTC| Insights & Views
In 1473, Alexander Hardynge, who had finished his bachelors degree at Oxford nearly two years previous, borrowed money through an educational loan service. The loan came with a one year repayment deadline. With some of...
Mar 23, 2016 17:18 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
The federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) serves an important role in our nations fight against hunger. Formerly known as food stamps, SNAP helps 45 million low-income Americans nearly half of whom are...
Big data security problems threaten consumers' privacy
Mar 23, 2016 17:14 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law Technology
As more personal information is collected up by ever-more-powerful computers, giant sets of data big data have become available for not only legitimate uses but also abuses. Big data has an enormous potential to...
Islamic State exploiting Europe's porous borders and intelligence failures: Turnbull
Mar 23, 2016 17:12 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Violent Islamist extremism appears to have reached a crisis point in Europe with a perfect storm of circumstances, Malcolm Turnbull has said. These were failed or neglected integration, foreign fighters returning from...
Brussels airport attacks are not just a matter of airport security
Mar 23, 2016 17:03 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The deadly terror attack in Brussels has again raised the issue of safety and security at airports. But expanding the security bubble around airports might not be the best response. Europe barely had the time to recover...
Urbanisation in developing countries: a completely different kettle of fish
Mar 23, 2016 16:58 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The patterns of urbanisation in the developing world in the past few decades have diverged significantly from historical trends. For the developed world, significant urbanisation was associated with industrialisation. With...
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