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Lipstick query shows gender aspect to Covid-19
Oped, Sarah Hawkes and Kent Buse, Published on 14/07/2021
» 'Is my lipstick protecting me against Covid-19?" ranks as one of the more intriguing email queries we have received from a member of the public since we began coordinating the world's largest tracker of sex-disaggregated data on the pandemic. In fact, the question points to an important universal truth regarding public health.
Trump's North Korean road leads to nowhere
News, Kent Harrington & John Walcott, Published on 28/01/2019
» When US President Donald Trump meets again with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un next month, he will be staging the second act in a comedy of manners that now passes for US foreign policy on the Korean Peninsula. Between Mr Kim's billets-doux to the White House and Mr Trump's gushing praise of Mr Kim, the script could have been written by Oscar Wilde. Like any drawing-room farce, the plot is simple enough: Mr Kim will pledge to abandon his nuclear weapons someday, while coquettishly concealing any details about the programme that produces them, and Mr Trump will promise to shower wealth on the Kim dynasty if he does.
Who bears risks in a sharing economy?
Business, Kent Chaplin, Published on 17/05/2018
» Let's say you've rented a room online through a sharing portal. The boiler in the flat has been improperly serviced and you get second-degree burns while taking a shower. You decide to sue the host. The person who let the room to you might think the sharing portal should carry some responsibility or that their home insurance should cover their liability.