Why do gun‑makers get special economic protection?
The gun industry has been virtually immune from liability for the deaths and injuries caused by its products since 2005. Can this change?
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Seven market signals that business needs before it embraces the Paris Climate Agreement
The Paris Climate Agreement was a strong political signal, but the mainstream business community needs many more before it acts decisively on climate change.
What Catholics can learn from protests of the past
There is rich Catholic heritage of resistance. Catholic protesters have used powerful religious symbols, including vials of their own blood, as an extension of Christ’s blood, to demand change.
US is becoming a ‘developing country’ on global rankings that measure democracy, inequality
The United States came in 41st worldwide on the UN’s 2022 sustainable development index, down nine spots from last year. A political historian explains the country’s dismal scores.
Netanyahu remains unmoved by Israel’s lurch toward pariah status − but at home and abroad, Israelis are suffering the consequences
Invites are rescinded, teams and singers are booed, and citizens wonder if they should disclose their nationality. Israelis are feeling the effects of international isolation.
I’m a physician who has looked at hundreds of studies of vaccine safety, and here’s some of what RFK Jr. gets wrong
The health secretary has made many inaccurate statements about vaccines. But the science is clear that vaccines have dramatically reduced childhood illness, disability and death.
ANU’s resources blacklist: social activism, or the shape of things to come?
The Australian National University’s decision to withdraw A$16 million in investment from seven resources companies, including gas producer Santos, has been praised by divestment campaigners and condemned…
Trump and many GOP lawmakers want to end all funding for NPR and PBS − unraveling a US public media system that took a century to build
The precursors of today’s public media programs consisted of professors giving lectures about history and finance.
From bad to worse? 5 things 2018 will bring to the Middle East
An expert on the region lays out the most essential issues to watch this year.
Private planes, mansions and superyachts: What gives billionaires like Musk and Abramovich such a massive carbon footprint
Billionaires have carbon footprints hundreds of times higher than the average American. Two scholars tried to put a number on it.
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