What’s a fair price to pay for music?

Jun 21, 2023 07:27 am UTC| Insights & Views

The campaign argues artists and rights holders arent getting paid fairly for songs played on radio, in reference to the license fees radio stations pay for the use of songs in their broadcasts. In Australia, sound...

Conspiracy theories aren't on the rise – we need to stop panicking

Jun 21, 2023 07:26 am UTC| Insights & Views

Several polls in the past couple of years (including from Ipsos, YouGov and most recently Savanta on behalf of Kings College Policy Institute and the BBC) have been examining the kinds of conspiratorial beliefs people...

Global Geopolitics Series

China and the US are talking again – so, where does the relationship go from here?

Jun 21, 2023 07:24 am UTC| Insights & Views

A potentially significant meeting took place in Beijing this week when Chinese President Xi Jinping met US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Blinkens visit to Beijing was ostensibly to meet his Chinese counterpart,...

Passengers whose flights are canceled or delayed may soon get better treatment in the US -- where airlines have long set their own rules

Jun 21, 2023 07:22 am UTC| Insights & Views Life

U.S. airline passengers in early 2023 faced the highest rate of flight delays since 2014. That heightened level of delays came shortly after December 2022, when Southwest Airlines experienced an epic meltdown, canceling...

The tree of life has been a powerful image in Jewish tradition for thousands of years – signifying much more than immortality

Jun 21, 2023 07:22 am UTC| Insights & Views Life

After weeks of wrenching testimony, jurors delivered a guilty verdict June 16, 2023, for the gunman who killed 11 worshippers in a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018 the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history. The next...

AI could shore up democracy – here's one way

Jun 21, 2023 07:21 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology

Its become fashionable to think of artificial intelligence as an inherently dehumanizing technology, a ruthless force of automation that has unleashed legions of virtual skilled laborers in faceless form. But what if AI...

US charitable donations fell to $499 billion in 2022 as stocks slumped and inflation surged

Jun 21, 2023 07:20 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy

Charitable giving in the U.S. fell to US$499 billion in 2022, as donors dealt with their losses in the stock market and coped with 40-year high inflation rates. For only the fourth time on record, Americans gave less...