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Joe Biden has become President of the United States at a time when the country faces acute crises on many fronts. The most pressing—in both health and economic terms—is the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, but the country must also confront the environmental and energy implications of climate change; deep racism across American institutions; ongoing weakness in […]
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Vaccines to combat the threat of Covid-19 have been developed at an amazing speed – in under a year. The figure below, from the journal Nature, puts this spectacular success in perspective — the fastest any vaccine had previously been developed, from viral sampling to approval, was four years, for mumps in the 1960s. And […]
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The recent spat between the EU and the UK over the legitimate status of EU ambassadors is a reminder of the ways in which states assert their existence. By refusing to give the EU ambassador the same status as a fellow state counterpart, the UK emphasised a sovereign hierarchy that nation-states feel the need to […]
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The world established an international tax regime in the 1920s which most countries follow with respect to cross-border transactions. It has had a remarkably successful tenure. There has been, however, a prevailing view that the international tax rules are not currently fit for purpose. Initially, this was driven by various aggressive tax planning techniques by […]
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Joshua A.T. Fairfield, author of Runaway Technology, on hate speech, disinformation, and technology,
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The year 2020 will long be remembered as a year in which global energy markets witnessed significant upheavals due to the effects of the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Oil prices fell dramatically, commodities such as metals witnessed significant declines in demand, while prices and activity levels across the three key sectors of the […]
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The importance of competent government is perhaps the most important of the many painful lessons that are being learned during the pandemic. The significant variation in death rates across the globe illustrates there are many examples of governments responding well, less well, and disastrously. As the pandemic is ongoing and geography varies, care needs to […]
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Since the first English settlements in North America, Christianity and its sacred text have had a significant influence on American jurisprudence. This reflects Christianity’s imprint on Western legal traditions in general and the English common law in particular. Early colonial laws, especially in New England’s Puritan commonwealths, drew extensively from biblical sources as interpreted within […]
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