Catholics vow to go hard in schools fight with government
May 08, 2017 04:49 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
The battle between the Catholics and the government on the schools funding plan appears to be ramping up, with Catholic education authorities deciding to intensify their campaign. Catholic education sources said a...
Obamacare repeal vote shows power of US hard right
May 07, 2017 09:01 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics Law
Since the passage of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare, Republicans have attempted to repeal it. In March, the first attempt to repeal and replace Obamacare under President Trump failed, as both...
Court ruling is a first step toward controlling air pollution from livestock farms
May 05, 2017 01:52 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Editors note: Most livestock farming in industrialized countries takes place on large enclosed farms, known in the United States as Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs), that house hundreds or thousands of...
A 147-year-old dispute between church and state spills onto a school playground
May 03, 2017 02:03 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
The United States Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in a case from Missouri that could have a significant impact on state funding of religious schools. The case involved a church in Missouri, the Trinity...
Why Dodd-Frank – or its repeal – won't save us from the next crippling Wall Street crash
May 03, 2017 01:54 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Republicans appear poised to roll back Wall Street regulations passed after the 2008 financial crisis. Democrats argue doing so would be a monumental mistake. Its been framed as a typical fight over regulation....
People make terrible eyewitnesses – but it turns out there's an exception
May 02, 2017 19:22 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
People are often poor eyewitnesses. Psychologists have been demonstrating this in experiments for years, but the justice system in the UK has been slow to catch on. There have been improvements, but lawyers and judges...
US Court Smacks Conservative-Run FCC Over War Against Net Neutrality
May 02, 2017 08:38 am UTC| Technology Law
Ever since Ajit Pai was appointed as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, he has been waging a war against the Net Neutrality rules imposed by the previous administrations FCC. Pai wants to gut Net Neutrality...
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
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight