Naomi Firsht * Jonathan Haidt on the crisis of resilience on campus. Worrying things have been happening on US campuses of late.
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD – The New York Times The news was hard to digest until one realized it was part of a much larger and increasingly disturbing pattern in the Trump administration. On Aug. 18, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine received an…
By Baher Kamal ROME, Sep 11 2017 (IPS) – When officials and experts from all over the world started the first-ever environmental summit hosted by China, they were already aware that climate and weather-related disasters were already seriously beginning to set the international…
BY ISHAAN THAROOR – The Washington Post There’s a population of around a million people living in fear right now, facing the likely wrath of an uncaring government that doesn’t seem to recognize their claim to the country they have always called home. The crisis along the…
Burrowes* For those of us committed to systematically reducing and, one day, ending human violence, it is vital to understand what is causing and driving it so that effective strategies can be developed for dealing with violence in its myriad contexts. For an understanding of…
by Jim Lobe* – Lobelog.com With the eviction of Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka from the inner precincts of the White House and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson besieged and taking fire from virtually all sides, neoconservatives – even the NeverTrumpers among them – must be…
By Hazel Henderson* – Ethical Markets The European Union (EU) has sweeping reforms of financial markets coming into force January 3, 2018. They will affect Wall Street firms in many ways, covering all transactions of EU securities wherever traded worldwide.
Opinion, Richard Javad Heydarian* – Al Jazeera South Korea is still hopeful of a diplomatic resolution of the crisis with its northern neighbour. “This is the new abnormal,” a key adviser of South Korean President Moon Jae-in told me amid North Korea’s latest missile and nuclear…
Roger Cohen – The New York Times In moments of national fragility, history rears its head. The past becomes a vast storehouse of grievance.
By Anis Chowdhury* and Jomo Kwame Sundaram** SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR , Sep 5 2017 (IPS) – The Business and Sustainable Development Commission has estimated that achievement of Agenda 2030 for the Sustainable Development Goals will require US$2-3 trillion of additional…
