Tag: The Science of Where Magazine

Russia – Russia restricts movement of key Navalny ally for 18 months (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: A Russian court has sentenced a key ally of jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny to 18 months of restricted movement after finding...

USA/Amazon – US labour official says Amazon union vote should be redone (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: A US labour board official has recommended a rerun of a landmark Amazon.com Inc union election in Alabama where employees had voted...

USA/ASEAN/Myanmar – US accuses Myanmar generals of ‘stalling’, urges ASEAN pressure (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: The United States has accused Myanmar’s military generals of playing for time after coup leader Min Aung Hlaing extended the deadline for...

Climate Change/Carbon Emissions/Asia – ADB, fin firms draw plan to close Asia coal-fired power plants (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: Financial firms, including British insurer Prudential, lenders Citi and HSBC and BlackRock Real Assets are devising plans to speed up the...

Lebanon – A year on, politicians accused of hindering Beirut blast justice (Al Jazeera)

Kareem Chehayeb writes: A year after a massive explosion at Beirut Port devastated the Lebanese capital, the victims’ grieving families are still waiting for answers, accountability...

Ethiopia’s Tigray/Sudan – Dozens of bodies found in river between Ethiopia’s Tigray, Sudan (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: At least 30 corpses have washed up on the Sudanese banks of a river that abuts Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray, according...

China – China’s Unavoidable Financial Rise (Project-Syndicate)

ZHANG JUN writes: A decade ago, few economists were bullish about the growth of China’s external financial strength. But the government’s commitment to capital-market...

Global – Preventing a Stablecoin Liquidity Crisis (Project-Syndicate)

ANDRÉS VELASCO writes: There is no sound argument for applying lender-of-last-resort protection to privately issued cryptocurrencies. But regulators can prevent the all-too-predictable liquidity squeeze...

Global – The Case for a G21 (Project-Syndicate)

JEFFREY D. SACHS writes: As a powerful complement to the United Nations, the G20 has acquitted itself well by representing most of the world’s...

USA – The Dangers of Endless Quantitative Easing (Project-Syndicate)

RAGHURAM G. RAJAN writes: With growth so uncertain, it is understandable that central banks would be wary of beginning to taper monthly bond purchases...

Taiwan – Tsai’s high stakes on Taiwan’s upcoming referendum (East Asia Forum)

Bill Sharp writes: Taiwan will vote on four referendum items on 18 December, the result of which could make or break the remainder of President...

USA/South Korea/Japan – Washington should pursue a digital deal with Seoul and Tokyo (East Asia Forum)

Elliot Silverberg and Daniel Aum write: In June 2021, the United States and the European Union announced the creation of a joint trade and technology council,...

Democracy/Information Manipulation – How democracies can win an information contest without undercutting their values (Brookings

Jessica Brandt writes: Dueling French and Russian trolls sparred with one another online as they vied for influence in multiple African countries, Facebook revealed late last...

USA – As the eviction moratorium ends, we need a long-term solution to housing insecurity (Brookings)

Carl Romer and Andre M. Perry write for Brookings: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) eviction moratorium for the COVID-19 pandemic provided acute relief to people...

Philippines – The Philippine economy under the pandemic: From Asian tiger to sick man again? (Brookings)

Ronald U. Mendoza writes: In 2019, the Philippines was one of the fastest growing economies in the world. It finally shed its “sick man...

USA – The coming eviction crisis will hit Black communities the hardest (Brookings)

Carl Romer, Andre M. Perry, and Kristen Broady write: According to a 2020 report by the Aspen Institute, an estimated 30 million to 40 million people in the...