Why music education needs to incorporate more diversity
Feb 13, 2016 12:43 pm UTC| Insights & Views
As presidential candidate Donald Trump continues to insist upon banning Muslims from entering the U.S. and espousing a need for a wall along the Mexican border, heating up anti-immigration and racist rhetoric, its...
Facing a physician shortage, can we leave medical school grads on the sidelines?
Feb 13, 2016 11:49 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Dr. Heidi Schmidt cannot practice medicine. The problem is not that she lost her license or was named in too many malpractice lawsuits. To the contrary, she has never held a license to practice medicine. Yet she has earned...
How did Britain fall out of love with privatisation?
Feb 13, 2016 10:18 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
When Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn flagged up the potential re-nationalisation of British railways, and later made similar comments about the energy industry, his ideas were dismissed as a return to the past. But the...
Why are our progressive political heroes still old white men?
Feb 13, 2016 09:42 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
On both sides of the Atlantic, a reawakening of progressive politics is underway. In countries where until recently socialism was considered a dirty word, Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn are inspiring a growing number of...
Ted Cruz's linguistic chutzpah
Feb 13, 2016 01:56 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Chutzpah is making headlines again. This time its not because someone mispronounced it (as former congresswoman Michele Bachmann did a few years ago); its because Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz called it a New...
The Syria 'ceasefire' deal is no such thing – it's cover for the US and Russia
Feb 13, 2016 01:53 am UTC| Insights & Views
Headlines are declaring the arrangement of a ceasefire in Syrias conflict. Announced by US secretary of state John Kerry and Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov late on February 11, it has been greeted as a ray of hope...
The Independent newspapers die as they were born – in the white heat of technology
Feb 13, 2016 01:39 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
Sunday, bloody Sunday: things began to wrong for The Independent when the decision was made in 1990 to publish a Sunday edition. From the outset, it haemorrhaged money. And Murdoch, bloody Murdoch dealt a second...
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