Save money when traveling abroad by thinking like an economist

Aug 08, 2018 13:24 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

A record number of tourists and business travelers visited a country other than their own in 2017, and this year is already on pace to exceed that tally. One thing you definitely need when traveling abroad besides a...

Smith College incident is latest case of racial 'profiling by proxy'

Aug 08, 2018 13:20 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

Smith College has opened an investigation into a July 31 incident in which a staff employee called campus police on a black student who supposedly seemed to be out of place. It turns out the student, Oumou Kanoute, who...

Ida B. Wells: How grassroots support and social media made a monumental difference in honoring her legacy

Aug 08, 2018 13:15 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

I learned at an early age that my great-grandmother, Ida B. Wells, was a force to be reckoned with. Born a slave in Mississippi, she became a leading civil rights activist when she sued the Chesapeake, Ohio ...

Why the UK needs its own Black Lives Matter moment to wake up to police racism

Aug 08, 2018 13:05 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

Gang culture, social media, drug-market violence, funding cuts to policing and youth clubs, and poverty and social inequality, have all been blamed for the current knife crime epidemic in London. More recently, however,...

A tribute to Winston Ntshona: a pioneer of storytelling and activism in South Africa

Aug 08, 2018 13:04 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

A slim, well-thumbed paperback volume occupies a special place on my bookshelf. Its spine is torn and barely legible, but such is its familiarity that I can dispense with such necessities. I can find Statements: Three...

Education, not restriction, is key to reducing harm from offshore gambling

Aug 08, 2018 11:59 am UTC| Insights & Views Life

Australian internet gambling policies have been refined and prohibitions on illegal gambling sites clarified in recent years. Despite this, offshore gambling sites are as popular as ever with Australians. Estimates of...

Why fewer kids work the kind of summer jobs that their parents used to have

Aug 01, 2018 15:23 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

Back in the day, most teens had some sort of job lined up for the summer. For some, it was an extension of an after-school job they held during the year. For others, it was a seasonal type of job such as working at a drug...