WitchTok: the rise of the occult on social media has eerie parallels with the 16th century

Oct 31, 2021 23:41 pm UTC| Insights & Views

Its 1.30am in the morning, and Im about to watch a duel between magicians. One is a demonolater, a word I have never heard before, someone who claims they worship demons and can petition them in return for knowledge or...

Want to understand how the Coalition works? Take a look at climate policy

Oct 31, 2021 23:37 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics

This weeks excruciating case of a prime minister being beholden to a rogue section of his own Cabinet over climate policy has again drawn attention to the arcane nature of Coalition arrangements. While the numbers...

BBC: why enhancing the public broadcaster's fact-checking would strengthen its impartiality

Oct 31, 2021 23:31 pm UTC| Insights & Views

From the 1926 General Strike, through the 1956 Suez Canal crisis, to the more recent Brexit debate and the COVID-19 pandemic, how the BBC tries to ensure impartiality in its journalism has always generated fierce debates...

Banning large university parties won’t work — students need to be empowered to propose change

Oct 31, 2021 23:30 pm UTC| Insights & Views

Every year instructors carefully plan what theyre going to teach during the semester. Then something significant happens that makes us pause and we have to resist the temptation to teach what was planned for the next...

Paid millions to hide trillions: Pandora Papers expose financial crime enablers, too

Oct 09, 2021 08:39 am UTC| Insights & Views

The Pandora Papers investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), a non-profit newsroom and network of journalists based in Washington, D.C., has revealed there are still some go-to...

As we mark Thanksgiving, a study into entrepreneurs explains why we give without receiving

Oct 09, 2021 08:08 am UTC| Insights & Views

From someone dropping off dinner at the doorstep of a neighbour with COVID-19 to an octogenarian in India giving up his oxygen bed for a middle-aged patient, instances of people giving to those in need without expectations...

10 ways we can better respond to the pandemic in a trauma-informed way

Oct 09, 2021 08:01 am UTC| Insights & Views

Fear is one of the central emotional responses during the pandemic. Every day brings a new level of stress: concerns about getting sick, the stigma of testing positive, financial difficulties due to not being able to work,...