May 2, 2022, Opinion: "The debt moratoria introduced early in the pandemic provided temporary relief for private borrowers, and may have…
Kathryn Sikkink (* 1955) is a political scientist who has contributed considerably to making human rights a field of research. Born into a…
Attitude conflict—interpersonal disagreement on deeply-held, identity relevant issues—is common in personal, professional, and policy…
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, developing countries appeared to be generally on a converging path with income levels in the wealthiest…
The downsides of density, including traffic congestion, contagious disease and crime, were common in Victorian London and classical Rome,…
The present article reviews a growing body of research on receptiveness to opposing views—the willingness to access, consider, and evaluate…
Highlights
• Fighting a pandemic in poor countries may involve not just a trade-off between lives and livelihoods, but an even more…
China's lending boom to developing countries is morphing into defaults and debt distress. Given the secrecy surrounding China's loans, the…
The Moral Dimension of AI-Assisted Decision-Making: Some Practical Perspectives from the Front Lines
This essay takes an engineering approach to ensuring that the deployment of artificial intelligence does not confound ethical principles,…
What happens to a society—and a planet—when capitalism outgrows democracy? The tensions between democracy and capitalism are longstanding,…