Sep 28, 2019 13:44 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The global economy is slowing. Most central banks are talking about cutting interest rates to boost the economic recovery. The US Federal Reserve has cut rates twice after consistently raising them in recent years. Markets...
Recycling rates could rise significantly with this simple tweak
Sep 28, 2019 13:44 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Have you ever thought about what happens to the empty Coke cans and food takeout containers you toss in your recycling bins? Our research suggests that if youre like most Americans, youve probably never considered this...
'Digital colonialism': why some countries want to take control of their people's data from Big Tech
Sep 28, 2019 13:43 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
There is a global standoff going on about who stores your data. At the close of Junes G20 summit in Japan, a number of developing countries refused to sign an international declaration on data flows the so-called Osaka...
How megaprojects are driving cities
Sep 28, 2019 13:43 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Megaprojects are reconfigured spaces in which the role of the local, regional, and national elites, as well as the role of national and sometimes transnational capital, is usually prominent. They can include urban...
Jacques Chirac: what legacy for the late French president?
Sep 28, 2019 13:42 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The death of Jacques Chirac leaves us with a paradox. He was the most popular president of the Fifth Republic, and yet one without any notable achievement during his tenure as leader. Of course, the obituaries will...
Brexit in the Supreme Court: when populists attack the rule of law, we all lose
Sep 28, 2019 13:41 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
When members of the UK parliament returned to the House of Commons following the Supreme Courts ruling that the governments prorogation was unlawful, the attorney general, Geoffrey Cox, questioned their moral authority....
Why drug trials are only part of the answer to making sure medicines work
Sep 28, 2019 13:41 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
There was a moment when, as a pharmacist, I realised that a lot of people to whom I gave medicine were going to receive little benefit, or even none at all. Healthcare staff make clinical decisions of when to use one...