Responding to student protests: should the law be a tool of justice or violence?
Sep 30, 2016 13:16 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
What is needed to enable South Africas universities to proceed with the academic year? The answer, according to some, is to deploy private security companies on campuses. Several of those who support such interventions...
Police are operating as a paramilitary force: criminologist reports from Charlotte, North Carolina
Sep 30, 2016 13:13 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law Life
After a summer during which the issue of police violence against black Americans has dominated the headlines, it was just another day, another shooting. On September 20, 43-year-old Keith Scott was shot dead by police in a...
Here's one judge who understands that the law needn't be an ass
Sep 30, 2016 12:38 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
When Family Court judge, Mr Justice Peter Jackson, made his judgment in a recent case about the future of four children who were in foster care he deliberately wrote it so that, as he put it: the mother and the older...
Why do we need 'Pokie-Leaks'? We already know how pokies work
Sep 30, 2016 09:48 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics Law
A trio of Australian politicians recently called for whistleblowers to reveal secrets about how the gambling industry operates. While it is up for debate as to whether there are questions to be answered about various...
Crime and conmen in the black out: the violent side of the World War I home front
Sep 30, 2016 07:53 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
As the commemorations for the centenary of the Battle of the Somme continue, its tempting to picture the Britain of 1914-1918 in a particular way: its inhabitants bonded together in a shared mission, brave men enduring...
Duterte’s war on drugs: bitter lessons from Thailand’s failed campaign
Sep 29, 2016 14:07 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics Law
The body count from Philippine President Rodrigo Dutertes war on drugs is growing by the day. While hes not the first national leader to condone violence and extrajudicial killings in the name of controlling illicit drug...
F8 2017 Got Way Too Big, Facebook Moved The Event From SF To San Jose
Sep 29, 2016 06:13 am UTC| Technology Law
The F8 conference by Facebook is coming soon and it has gotten so big that Fort Mason in San Francisco couldnt fit all the developers that are expected to attend. As a result, the social media company is instead holding...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects