Dodgy deals: Does scandalising corruption backfire?
By Helen Jiang The Global Anticorruption Blog’s Helen Jiang explores whether scandalising political corruption in the news media can backfire. High profile corruption scandals are making headlines almost every day: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is...
Can we survive the collapse of the international order?
By Jeffrey Stacey With the Brexit fallout continuing and Donald Trump’s global posturing sending mixed messages, can we survive a potential collapse of the international order? For the first year of the Trump Administration, the Washington D.C.- based denizens...
Has a constitutional coup taken place in the United States? 🔊
With Donald Trump nominating Justice Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court, Maria Armoudian speaks with Jon Michaels about the role of the four so-called liberal justices and how privatization has amounted to what Michaels calls a constitutional coup. Jon Michaels is...
Was it worth it? Pita Sharples reflects on the UN Declaration of Indigenous Rights
By Pita Sharples Former Māori Affairs Minister Pita Sharples reflects on New Zealand’s decision to support the UN Declaration of Indigenous Rights after initially opposing it for three years. In April 2010, the New Zealand government officially supported the UN...
How have Orangutans adapted to human behaviour?
By Douglas Sheil, Mike Bruford, Serge Wich, and Stephanie Spehar New research has shown that Orangutans have been adapting to humans for 70,000 years. If you are very lucky you might have seen an orangutan in the wild. Most people have only seen them on television. In...
Q+A: How do we solve incivility in society?
Politics in places like the US has become increasingly hostile and uncivil, say scholars. Language often vilifies citizens and lawmakers. But people overwhelmingly dislike the incivility and have expressed shame at its effect on policy debates. What are the effects of...
Black cats and cracked mirrors: Why do we believe the unbelievable?
By Neil Dagnall & Ken Drinkwater What is the science behind superstition, and why do we believe the unbelievable? Neil Dagnall and Ken Drinkwater investigate. The number 13, black cats, breaking mirrors, or walking under ladders, may all be things you actively...
Have the Americans lost the sense of democracy?
By Marc Fleurbaey Marc Fleurbaey explores in these polarized times whether Americans have lost their sense of democracy. In Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville praised America’s egalitarian society, but warned against the tyranny of an ignorant majority and...
How rising seas are threatening our cultural heritage
By Patty Hamrick As climate change encroaches, our heritage is drowning, according to Patty Hamrick. The famous moai of Rapa Nui (also known as Easter Island) are, to many people, the face of archaeology. These massive statues made of dark, weathered stone,...Subscribe by Email
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