Digital division: pointing the finger
Kira Allmann counts the cost of exclusion from the web that is woven into lives worldwide. On a blustery, overcast afternoon eight years ago, volunteers for (B4RN, pronounced “barn”) gathered …
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An isolated problem
Food insecurity grows when the sense of community is low. Megan Blake tells how people have stepped up to the challenge. Kora and Ryan are just starting out on …
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Constructive argument
‘Building back better’ is all well and good but, ask Kate Bayliss, Ben Bowles and Elisa Van Waeyenberge, better for whom? Investment in infrastructure is a major part of the …
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A tale of two viruses
How do little guys defeat big guys? Francisco Perez tells the story. First there were reports of a newfound virus in the eastern part of the country. My colleagues and …
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Hope and hard work
Martin Parker ponders how humans might learn to see themselves for what they are. Before the pandemic, I wrote a chapter for a book about hope and the social sciences. …
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Brazilian wane
Brazil is big. But politics and inequality are the fuel for its Covid wildfire says Laura Zampini. In mid-June, while most of Europe and Asia were starting to relax restrictions, …
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A large consideration
The UK is in hock to a discordant tune of trillions. Who should pay the piper? Alex Tziamalis writes. Consider debt. The UK owes nearly £2 trillion and now, with …
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Nothing ventured
Are venture capital investors and governments missing the same trick? Johannes Lenhard sees opportunities. Venture capital has had deep involvement in the rise of the digital age. Many of the …
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Fast and furious
Global warming demands a swerve in how we teach economics, says Marc Beckman. Global student movement, Rethinking Economics, has, since 2014, spoken out against the disconnect between what is going …
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Fake news (the emperor’s old clothes)
Tom London tells how self-aggrandisement, warmongering and bribing the population was a feature of national leadership millennia before any president. Like the Fascist dictator Mussolini, evoking the Roman Empire, and …
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