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Why is everyone becoming so self-righteous?
Oped, Steven Sloman, Published on 18/09/2025
» It feels increasingly difficult nowadays to avoid righteousness; or, worse, self-righteousness. We are constantly being told what to do by those who supposedly have seen the light. For example, I was recently scolded by a colleague for suggesting that my own employer should aim to hire the best people, regardless of their sex or race. I was struck by the confidence that this person felt in instructing me on what I should value; it felt high-handed and uninformed.
The markets never sleep, should trading?
Tal Cohen, President of Nasdaq, Published on 11/03/2025
» Throughout history, financial markets have strived to keep pace with technological advancements and evolving industry needs. From the open-outcry trading pits of the past to today’s real-time, globally interconnected electronic markets, investors and industry participants have greatly benefited from the modernisation of markets.
Gutting aid, US cedes soft power game to China
Shaun Tandon of Agence France-Presse, Published on 12/02/2025
» WASHINGTON - When President Donald Trump froze nearly all US foreign aid, Cambodia was forced to suspend workers removing dangerous mines from the country -- until China stepped in with the necessary funding.
King Charles' blue tie speaks volumes to Greeks
Howard Chua-Eoan of Bloomberg Opinion, Published on 05/12/2023
» NEW YORK - Can a tie really bind you to an opinion? Greek and British journalists traded flurries of speculation last week after King Charles III wore a bright blue cravat (and matching pocket square) as he addressed the COP28 climate conference in Dubai.
The hidden tale of a 3-legged tiger
Oped, Steven R. Galster, Published on 17/02/2022
» Tigers are in the news again. First, rare camera-trap footage released last week showed a three-legged victim of poaching, a female tiger, hopping through the jungles of western Thailand, eating domestic animals (and possibly attacking people too). Days later: an undercover bust of traffickers with tiger skins in the same region. To keep hope alive for the critically endangered big cat, authorities must now act on two levels. First, they must rescue the amputee before she or poachers strike again. Second, they need to address the underlying causes of poaching before other tigers, animals and people suffer.
The battle between Big Tech and the free press
Oped, Steven Hill, Published on 10/04/2021
» Worldwide, the free press is waging a battle for survival against Facebook and Google. Besides being gushing firehoses of Covid disinformation and QAnon conspiracies, Google and Facebook have been dangerously undermining the financial stability of media outlets all over the world.
Anti-China outrage pulls Beijing into Myanmar coup crisis
Aidan Jones of AFP, Published on 17/03/2021
» Chinese factories torched as mainland workers hunker down under martial law -- Beijing is being pulled into the ulcerous crisis in Myanmar, an unravelling country it had carefully stitched into its big plans for Asia.
Making tech giants responsible for user content
Oped, Steven Hill, Published on 28/01/2021
» Why do so many people, including both presidents Trump and Biden, keep talking about eliminating an obscure law called Section 230?
A vaccine against outbreaks: Ban wildlife trade
News, Steven R Galster, Published on 21/03/2020
» As Thailand and its neighbors scramble to contain the pandemic and panic, we urgently need to start building a response to the source of Covid-19, or risk having new outbreaks hit us even harder. There is good reason to believe that we know the source -- global wildlife trade -- and that there is a solution.
How screen size reflects the age gap divide
Oped, Tyler Cowan of Bloomberg Opinion, Published on 09/09/2019
» The generational divide is described and defined in many different ways, some more empirical than others. Many of these theories are speculative rather than confirmed, so in that spirit I would like to offer my nomination for what is truly the dividing force: screen size.