Vijaya Ramachandran
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The Authoritarian Stamp of Jim Crow
We don’t have to look overseas to find models that help explain where Trumpism may be taking us.
How Stephen Miller Manipulates Donald Trump to Further His Immigration Obsession
Donald Trump’s senior adviser has been the true driving force behind this Administration’s racist agenda. How far will he go?
What Aspects of Formality Do Workers Value? Evidence from a Choice Experiment in Bangladesh
Abstract. This study uses a choice experiment among 2,000 workers in Bangladesh to elicit willingness to pay (WTP) for job attributes: a contract, termination
Study: 50 million Americans donate to medical crowdfunding
Roughly 20 million people have started online fundraising campaigns for health care.
Building Bridges to Negative Emissions
Wide-scale deployment of direct air capture may be as hard, or harder, than developing the core technology itself.
Canada: A nation of strangers
Scott Gilmore: Canadians don't often move out of their birth province. We vacation elsewhere. We barely know each other. We're now unable to muster national responses to big issues.
$10 Billion? In This Climate??
Jeff Bezos has pledged more money to battling climate change than anyone ever has before. But where will it go?
Mixed Messages As Secretary Pompeo Visits Africa 2020-02-19 | The Takeaway
It’s only the second visit by a Secretary of State during this administration.
‘Innovation’ nation
China is finally embracing biopharmaceutical innovation, but it is innovation that looks different from that in the West.
Farmers and Fishermen to Challenge World Bank Group Immunity Ruling
A fishing and farming community in Gujarat, India will challenge a ruling from a federal judge in D.C. that the IFC is immune from being sued for damages.
The next chapter for African genomics
Nigeria is poised to become a hub for genetics research, but a few stubborn challenges block the way.
The Greek Tragedy of America and International Finance
Increasingly, Washington views international financial organizations as weapons in the global struggle for the neoliberal economic model against China’s state-led approach to development. And often, the international financial institutions are the...
Vijaya Ramachandran
The Greek Tragedy of America and International Finance
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‘It’s Like the End of the World’
At the Turkish border with Syria, tales of the desperation unfolding on the other side, where some 900,000 people are fleeing a Syrian assault.
China Expels 3 Wall Street Journal Reporters as Media Relations Sour
Beijing said it revoked their credentials over a headline the newspaper published in its opinion pages.
Farmers Pitch For GI Tag For Kashmiri Saffron, World's Most Expensive Spice |
Kashmiri saffron, superior in quality and the costliest in the world, is fighting to regain its place in a market almost entirely cornered by Iran. Over the last two decades, Kashmiri saffron has been
Over half a million children in northwest Syria forced to flee amid continued violence and harsh weather
77 children killed or injured in the fighting since the beginning of the year
Cutting Aid is Still A Big Deal: Why We Should Pay Attention to the FY21 Budget Request
President Trump sent his fourth budget request to Congress last week—once again including steep cuts to foreign aid spending. Capitol Hill appears primed to reject the proposed reductions, but despite the attitude of many lawmakers, the exercise...
Global land spared as a result of cereal yield improvements
Global area of land spared from agricultural production as a result of improvements in cereal yield, measured in hectares. This has been calculated as the area of land which would have been necessary to maintain global cereal production at actual...
The Antarctic Peninsula is setting heat records. They won’t stand long.
Experts expect to see more extreme warming events in the future, raising alarm bells about the future of the world's largest frozen landmass.