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Economy
Why the U.S. Is Losing the War On COVID-19
The pandemic has exposed the gulf between what this country promises for its citizens and what it actually delivers. Alex Fitzpatrick TIME And as the U.S. barrels toward Election Day,…
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Analysis
From Kangaroo Island to Mallacoota, citizen scientists proved vital to…
Hundreds contacted the Australian Citizen Science Association (ACSA), Australia’s peak citizen science body, for guidance on how to participate in relevant scientific projects. Authors The Conversation It was a golden…
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Activism
Thousands stage flower protest in Belarus, EU weighs sanctions
Security forces have clashed with protesters for three consecutive nights after Lukashenko claimed a landslide re-election victory in a vote on Sunday that his opponents say was rigged. Police have…
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Analysis
‘No one would even know if I had died in…
Our surveys of these students before and during the pandemic show it has made their already precarious situations much worse. Authors The Conversation Of those with paid work when the…
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Analysis
Present at the Disruption
Present at the Creation is an 800-page memoir written by Dean Acheson, U.S. President Harry Truman’s secretary of state. Richard Haass Foreign Affairs The title, with its biblical echo, was…
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Europe
Five ‘safe and legal’ asylum alternatives to cut Channel crossings
The government insists the way to reduce the number of people crossing the Channel in small boats is to prevent the vessels from leaving France in the first place or……
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Australasia
A resident of aged care shouldn’t need to surrender their…
When a person’s lack of physical independence tips them, at great personal financial and emotional cost, into an aged care home, they do not just give up their home. Prateek…
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Afghanistan Issue
Taking Stock of the Taliban’s Perspectives on Peace
They should develop clear negotiating positions on key issues and work to convince their members that peace requires compromise. ICG What’s new? On 29 February 2020, the United States and…
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Africa
State of democracy in Africa: changing leaders doesn’t change politics
In Angola (2017), Ethiopia (2018), South Africa (2018), Sudan (2019) and Zimbabwe (2018), leadership change promised to bring about not only a new man at the top, but also a…
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Analysis
How the World Enables China’s Legal Gamesmanship
More specifically, I suggested that the official delegates of the 160-plus national governments who will convene later in 2020 for the 30th meeting of state parties to the U.N… Jonathan…
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Analysis
Videos won’t kill the uni lecture, but they will improve…
To do this, academics have been choosing between two approaches: live videoconferencing using tools such as Zoom, or pre-recording videos and posting to platforms such as YouTube. Authors The Conversation…
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Asia
Greece on alert as Turkey sends survey ship to disputed…
The search for potentially rich oil and gas deposits is to take place south of the Greek island of Kastellorizo. BBC Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis called a meeting with military…