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...
Here's what architecture can teach us about building the Northern Powerhouse
Mar 25, 2016 01:45 am UTC| Insights & Views
George Osbornes cuts to disability benefits have been stopped in their tracks, and the chancellors grand scheme to reinvigorate the North of England now faces its own challenges. Osbornes vision for a Northern...
Four decades after coup, people power is driving change in Argentina
Mar 25, 2016 01:25 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The visit to Argentina by US president Barack Obama on the 40th anniversary of the coup in which the now-infamous military Junta seized power has opened up a lot of barely healed wounds. The families of more than 30,000...
Everything you need to know about mini nuclear reactors
Mar 25, 2016 01:20 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Nuclear power can be a touchy subject, one that seems to divide opinion. Many people believe it is unclean, controversial and costly and the 2011 Fukushima disaster showed the world just how unsafe nuclear can be; the...
We need to rethink hip hop's bad rap
Mar 25, 2016 01:07 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment
Like many people around the world, I was saddened to hear news of the death of legendary 90s hip-hop artist, Phife Dawg. I was sad not because I knew Phife Dawg (I didnt) nor because at 45 he was too young to leave us...
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