Virtually all nations agree that using a nuclear weapon would fail to provide security and ensure pariah status. That said, divisions run deep over how to achieve nuclear non-proliferation. Speeches before the UN General Assembly reveal “a wide gap among Russian, Chinese and US assessments of the...
Nuclear gap: US President Donald Trump threatens annihilation of rogue state North Korea at the United Nations, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov offers backhanded compliments
WASHINGTON: The decision to award a Nobel Peace Prize to the...
Boris Johnson’s Brexit withdrawal agreement, similar to one proposed by former Prime Minister Theresa May, won approval in the House of Commons. Members of parliament who feared Britain would lose influence with May’s plan have higher expectations for a similar plan proposed by Boris Johnson. “The...
The US economy could be in a long-term structural bind, failing to provide enough work for its educated young adults. Many economists had suggested that underemployment would be a temporary problem. But research by a team of Canadian economists suggests that a high-tech economy has reduced need for...
The recession left millions of college-educated Americans working in coffee shops and retail stores. Now, new research suggests their job prospects may not improve much when the economy rebounds.
Underemployment – skilled workers doing jobs that don...
Suicide, long correlated with high unemployment rates, is on the rise in the wake of government austerity. “People looking for work are about twice as likely to end their lives as those who have jobs,” note David Stuckler and Sanjay Basu in an opinion essay for the New York Times. The two conducted...
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The politics of globalization can be improved, argues Peter Mandelson, former European commissioner for trade in an essay based on a March 2011 keynote speech on the future of globalization. Governments have the capability to tame what seems to be a senseless race to devour resources and amass...
Jobs in a borderless world: Workers in the West up in arms against globalization
LONDON: As globalization transforms the world, societies and nations are becoming increasingly uneasy.
Yet no one in China, Vietnam, India, or Botswana – let alone the...
US Supreme Court decisions comment on major trends, including globalization. Two perspectives have emerged from the court, notes law professor Noah Feldman, writing for the New York Times. One suggests that law “derives its legitimacy from being enacted by elected representatives of the people” and...
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With Democrats controlling US Congress, many anticipate new federal regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Executives of energy firms have shifted attention away from battling the existence of global warming to debating methods for controlling the trend: taxing emissions, capping...
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An 1872 US law – designed to encourage settlement of the American West – allows mining companies to extract gold from the ground without environmental clean-up. The American West has long been settled, and most mining firms taking advantage of the law are foreign-owned, explains Jane Danowitz in a...
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