Terror attacks put journalists' ethics on the front line
Mar 23, 2016 17:33 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Everyone along the street seemed to be watching the same thing. The evenings were still light and curtains were not yet drawn, so peoples TV sets were visible through their ground-floor windows. All the screens showed the...
The journey from jihad to Islamist terrorism
Mar 23, 2016 17:32 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The twin bomb attacks in Brussels mark a new chapter in the unfinished book on the history of Islamist terrorism. To understand the terrorist attacks we must examine the wider circumstances. These include the hypothesis...
The bitter fruits of alienation: Belgium's struggle is the problem of our age
Mar 23, 2016 17:31 pm UTC| Insights & Views
What we feared has happened, remarked Charles Michel, the prime minister of Belgium, in the immediate aftermath of the horrible and violent attacks on Brussels airport and the Maelbeek metro station on March 22. Yes,...
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...
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