Five traits of an ethical leader
Dec 30, 2015 00:00 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The year just past saw many major business scandals including those at Volkswagen, 7-Eleven and Turing Pharmaceuticals. All pointed to a business culture using the end justifies the means argument to justify unethical if...
Dec 24, 2015 11:44 am UTC| Technicals Politics
Parliamentary assembly is in adjournment until February, resulting Brazilian assets a brief halt from the political turmoil, as no traces of any developments in the process of President Rousseffs charges, House Speaker...
Is US becoming socialist in its approach to regulating financial activities?
Dec 24, 2015 08:37 am UTC| Commentary Politics
For decades now, United States have been considered to wear the crown of capitalism, where business can thrive, banks can pursue new avenues and traders can make millions. But it is increasingly becoming clear that the...
Cities as Democratic Laboratories: the case of Seoul
Dec 23, 2015 22:15 pm UTC| Politics
The following field note on cities as democratic laboratories was inspired by a recent visit to the Republic of Korea. The highlight of my journey was an afternoon meeting and press conference with Park Won-Soon, Mayor of...
Non-human Democracy: putting inspirations, lessons and analogies to work
Dec 23, 2015 21:58 pm UTC| Politics
This is the final part of a three-part essay. Part one asks why democratic research has all but ignored non-human species. Part two argues that our all-too-human conception of democracy must evolve in the Anthropocene, so...
How compromises and mistakes made in the Mandela era hobbled South Africa's economy
Dec 23, 2015 05:38 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Addressing the Oxford Union recently, Julius Malema, leader of South Africas opposition party the Economic Freedom Fighters, did something few South Africans have dared: he challenged Nelson Mandelas post-apartheid...
European Parliament Reps File Motion For Regulating Bitcoin Transactions
Dec 23, 2015 04:19 am UTC| Digital Currency Politics
According to a motion for a European Parliament resolution filed last month, three representatives from a French right-wing political party Dominique Bilde, Sophie Montel and Florian Philippot are seeking to give...
Electricity from farm waste: how biogas could help Malawians with no power
What the Supreme Court is doing right in considering Trump’s immunity case
US election: why it’s not the protesters’ votes that the Democrats should worry about
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects