Últimas Notícias - Internacional 20/01/2020 21:00:00 Conflict resolution relies increasingly on diplomatic back channels It is hard to measure how well they work Continue lendo... 19/01/2020 21:00:00 America’s census looks out of date in the age of big data Cost, complexity and new sources of data mean the days of the population count are numbered Continue lendo... 17/01/2020 21:00:00 Painting lines on roads saves lives Simple things can reduce deaths in traffic accidents Continue lendo... 15/01/2020 21:00:00 Globally, roads are deadlier than HIV or murder The tragedy is that this is so easy to change Continue lendo... 09/01/2020 12:49:56 What a museum of disgusting food reveals about human nature Visitors receive a sick bag in lieu of a ticket Continue lendo... 03/01/2020 21:00:00 Why so few rapists are convicted The justice system is still stacked against women Continue lendo... 27/12/2019 21:00:00 2019 in review: Protest and global warming Climate change becomes a mainstream concern; politics moves on to the streets Continue lendo... 18/12/2019 12:51:11 Teenagers are rewriting the rules of the news That will affect both the industry and society Continue lendo... 12/12/2019 12:53:10 Millions of women are missing out on hormone replacement therapy This much-maligned treatment could save many lives Continue lendo... 04/12/2019 21:00:00 PISA results can lead policymakers astray All the more reason to pay close attention to them Continue lendo... 30/11/2019 21:00:00 NATO’s Watford summit features a troublesome trio Awkward allies, and each in his own way Continue lendo... 28/11/2019 12:43:38 Denmark wants to break up ethnic enclaves. What is wrong with them? Does ethnic segregation harm immigrants? Continue lendo... 21/11/2019 12:55:45 The global drugs trade shifts to west Africa Weak, corrupt states are ideal for cocaine barons Continue lendo... 16/11/2019 21:00:00 World Toilet Day this week is not a joke, but deadly serious The lack of toilets costs lives. Just look at India Continue lendo... 14/11/2019 13:01:05 Economics, demography and social media only partly explain the protests roiling so many countries today Single theories struggle to explain the demonstrations around the world Continue lendo... 13/11/2019 21:00:00 Banned in warfare, tear-gas is the default response to controlling protests Its use may help reduce casualties, but that does not make it safe Continue lendo... 07/11/2019 13:08:32 Countries are increasingly willing to censor speech online That will make life hard for the tech giants Continue lendo... 03/11/2019 21:00:00 Why are so many countries witnessing mass protests? Blame economics, demography, a sense of powerlessness...and social media Continue lendo... 31/10/2019 13:02:15 You really can fool some of the people, all of the time Politicians pay a surprisingly small price for dishonesty Continue lendo... 25/10/2019 21:00:00 Power in the Catholic church is shifting south and exposing divisions The church is pondering whether to ordain women and married men Continue lendo... 17/10/2019 12:02:54 Russia’s Chukotka and America’s Alaska are an era apart Despite being in spitting distance across the Bering Strait Continue lendo... 11/10/2019 21:00:00 Plant-based meat could create a radically different food chain Meat no longer has to be murder Continue lendo... 04/10/2019 21:00:00 Competition between sports for fans’ money and attention is increasingly fierce Basketball can now plausibly claim to be the world’s second-favourite sport Continue lendo... 28/09/2019 21:00:00 Diplomacy in the crossfire of Donald Trump’s impeachment battle The fall-out from the Ukraine debacle goes beyond the peril to the president himself Continue lendo... 26/09/2019 11:39:58 The world is still struggling to implement meaningful climate policy The private sector is trying to come up with its own ideas Continue lendo... 25/09/2019 21:00:00 Oceans are increasingly bearing the brunt of global warming A new report highlights the cost to the seas of rising temperatures Continue lendo... 23/09/2019 21:00:00 Much talk, and a little action, at the UN climate summit Politicians and business leaders announced new steps to fight climate change. But much remains to be done Continue lendo... 18/09/2019 21:00:00 Island states have had an outsized influence on climate policy Climate issue: Small islands are on the front line of climate change. Yet many still face extinction Continue lendo... 13/09/2019 21:00:00 A dire scarcity of drugs is worsening, in part, because they are so cheap Many generic drugs have too few manufacturers Continue lendo... 05/09/2019 11:46:09 How BRAC, the world’s biggest charity, made Bangladesh richer Its extraordinary success leaves it struggling to find a new purpose Continue lendo... 29/08/2019 11:45:35 A global revolution in attitudes towards cannabis is under way The legalisation of the drug for medicinal use is paving the way for a broader liberalisation Continue lendo... 22/08/2019 11:44:01 The poor, who most need insurance, are least likely to have it Mobile phones and innovative firms can help Continue lendo... 16/08/2019 21:00:00 The global gag on free speech is tightening In both democracies and dictatorships, it is getting harder to speak up Continue lendo... 09/08/2019 20:00:00 How to curb the trade in endangered species A triennial summit in Geneva has little progress to celebrate Continue lendo... 31/07/2019 21:00:00 Are Western democracies becoming ungovernable? Politicians sometimes say so, but mean different things in different countries Continue lendo... 26/07/2019 21:00:00 Parliaments get facelifts; but it is politics that really needs one Renovations give parliamentarians an opportunity to shore up democracy. Will they take it? Continue lendo... 17/07/2019 21:00:00 Space law is inadequate for the boom in human activity there The law has big gaps. Who is liable for space debris? And is space mining even legal? Continue lendo... 11/07/2019 11:51:14 Why are happy people voting for angry parties? The rise of populism comes at a time when people say they are feeling fine Continue lendo... 09/07/2019 21:00:00 Children make parents happy, after all Particularly so when they are aged under ten Continue lendo... 05/07/2019 21:00:00 A brief history—and future—of credit scores They can transform an economy. But they are only as robust as the data underlying them Continue lendo... 28/06/2019 21:00:00 The Gulf of Guinea is now the world’s worst piracy hotspot The tricks that baffled buccaneers off Somalia and South-East Asia may not help in west Africa Continue lendo... 21/06/2019 21:00:00 Pet-ownership is booming across the world It seems not to be doing the owners as much good as they think Continue lendo... 14/06/2019 21:00:00 Air-traffic control is a mess Costly old systems cannot cope with congestion in the sky. Vested interests block reform Continue lendo... 07/06/2019 21:00:00 Magic mushrooms, illegal in most places, may have therapeutic uses The active ingredient, psilocybin, offers hope in treating depression Continue lendo... 07/06/2019 21:00:00 Psychedelic tourism is a niche but growing market A “mushroom journey” is for some the trip of a lifetime Continue lendo... 29/05/2019 21:00:00 Malaria is fighting back against efforts to eliminate it In Africa cases are as frequent as ever; in South-East Asia drug-resistant strains are appearing Continue lendo... 29/05/2019 21:00:00 Zambia cuts malaria fatalities, but not the number of cases Its aim of becoming the first malaria-free country in sub-Saharan Africa by 2021 looks very ambitious Continue lendo... 23/05/2019 11:52:01 How climate change can fuel wars Droughts are already making conflict more likely. As the world gets hotter, mayhem could spread Continue lendo... 17/05/2019 21:00:00 The boundaries between politics and stand-up comedy are crumbling Comics are running for office; politicians are trying to be funny Continue lendo... 09/05/2019 11:54:18 What Caster Semenya’s case means for women’s sport A very specific ruling for a very special runner has implications far beyond athletics Continue lendo... 03/05/2019 21:00:00 Global meat-eating is on the rise, bringing surprising benefits As Africans get richer, they will eat more meat and live longer, healthier lives Continue lendo... 27/04/2019 21:00:00 Military spending around the world is booming America and China are committing vast sums to their armed forces Continue lendo... 26/04/2019 21:00:00 How monarchies survive modernity As Japan’s emperor hands over to his son and the Thai king is crowned, monarchies are thriving Continue lendo... 17/04/2019 11:54:00 Sudan and Algeria overthrow despots but not their political systems Both could end up with new rulers much like the old ones Continue lendo... 17/04/2019 11:54:00 How to predict when a despot will fall The economy matters, but so do history and the weather Continue lendo... 12/04/2019 21:00:00 Kidney donors are wanted, dead or alive Since there are not enough of either kind, donation needs to be better organised Continue lendo... 04/04/2019 11:45:40 Why governments move civil servants out of national capitals They want to unclog cities, save money and smooth regional inequality Continue lendo... 04/04/2019 11:45:40 Foreign internship Continue lendo... 28/03/2019 12:42:12 The clamour to return artefacts taken by colonialists Former colonies want their cultural treasures back Continue lendo... 28/03/2019 12:42:12 Foreign internship Continue lendo... 28/03/2019 12:42:11 How Sackler cash made museums a target for protests Woke art-lovers prefer galleries untainted by donors they dislike Continue lendo... 21/03/2019 12:41:10 Why white nationalist terrorism is a global threat The Christchurch killer acted alone but followed a terrifying trend Continue lendo... 20/03/2019 21:00:00 Turkey and New Zealand row over the Christchurch massacre Turkey’s President Erdogan sees political benefits in blaming the killings on global Islamophobia Continue lendo... 15/03/2019 21:00:00 What disasters reveal about mental-health care Counselling by amateurs costs little and can work wonders Continue lendo... 14/03/2019 12:43:52 Foreign internship Continue lendo... 08/03/2019 21:00:00 First-class air travel is in decline Executives are flying business class; plutocrats are taking private jets Continue lendo... 08/03/2019 21:00:00 Foreign internship Continue lendo... 28/02/2019 12:42:15 “Repurposing” off-patent drugs offers big hopes of new treatments But governments need to give companies incentives to invest in them Continue lendo... 22/02/2019 21:00:00 More children around the world are being taught in English, often badly If children or teachers do not understand the language of instruction, they cannot learn or teach properly Continue lendo... 15/02/2019 21:00:00 An ageing world needs more resourceful robots Rather than take people’s jobs, machines will help care for them in their old age Continue lendo... 08/02/2019 21:00:00 Electricity does not change poor lives as much as was thought Getting a power connection to the poorest of the poor may be the wrong priority for a cash-strapped government Continue lendo... 08/02/2019 21:00:00 Night-time satellite imagery can measure electricity provision In India, the night sky follows an electoral timetable Continue lendo... 01/02/2019 21:00:00 Thanks to education, global fertility could fall faster than expected The world’s population in 2100 could be no higher than it is today Continue lendo... 25/01/2019 21:00:00 Few sports are doing enough to protect athletes from brain damage Small rule changes can reduce concussions in rugby and American football Continue lendo... 18/01/2019 21:00:00 How chicken became the rich world’s most popular meat The birds now count for 23bn of the 30bn land animals living on farms Continue lendo... 11/01/2019 21:00:00 Missionaries from the global south try to save the godless West Preachers from poor countries are targeting the rich world Continue lendo... 04/01/2019 21:00:00 Efforts to make buildings greener are not working Rules on “zero energy” buildings do not go far enough Continue lendo... 30/12/2018 21:00:00 The Economist’s ten most popular articles of 2018 The pieces which most caught our readers’ attention Continue lendo... 24/12/2018 21:00:00 The Economist’s editors pick the ten covers that define 2018 News, events and trends to sum up the year, as seen on the cover of The Economist Continue lendo... 21/12/2018 21:00:00 Gradually, nervously, courts are granting rights to animals Chimpanzees and elephants first Continue lendo... 14/12/2018 21:00:00 Why so little is done to help new mums cope Public-health systems focus on babies but often neglect their mothers Continue lendo... 07/12/2018 21:00:00 Can the world stop genocide? As the UN convention against genocide turns 70, its failures are tragically apparent Continue lendo... 30/11/2018 21:00:00 Indigenous peoples across the world no longer seem doomed to extinction The first of three articles explains why Continue lendo... 30/11/2018 21:00:00 Brazilian Indians are learning to live with the state The second in a series of articles on indigenous peoples Continue lendo... 30/11/2018 21:00:00 Why New Zealand’s Maori do better than Australia’s Aboriginals The third in a series of articles on indigenous peoples Continue lendo... 23/11/2018 21:00:00 Suicide is declining almost everywhere Thank urbanisation, greater freedom and some helpful policies Continue lendo... 23/11/2018 21:00:00 Japanese volunteers curb suicide, with kindness and pancakes Gradually, governments are beginning to provide some support Continue lendo... 16/11/2018 21:00:00 In poor countries technology can make big improvements to education Teachers are often unqualified, ignorant or absent; tablets show up and work Continue lendo... 07/11/2018 21:00:00 Clerical sexual-abuse scandals strengthen the pope’s conservative critics Launched in optimism, Francis’s papacy is bogged down in infighting and scandals Continue lendo... 02/11/2018 21:00:00 Jew-hatred keeps mutating to survive Lessons from the Pittsburgh massacre Continue lendo... 26/10/2018 21:00:00 The backlash against overtourism More people are travelling, and many are visiting the same places Continue lendo... 26/10/2018 21:00:00 How to dispose of human waste on Mount Everest Unsavoury problems at 18,000 feet Continue lendo... 19/10/2018 21:00:00 Why farm-worker migration is booming Hostility to migrants is on the rise, but farm hands are still voting with their feet Continue lendo... 19/10/2018 21:00:00 How farmers cope with shortages of workers And why strawberries have become as big as plums Continue lendo... 16/10/2018 21:00:00 The UN Human Rights Council’s lousy election The election of human-rights abusers to the UN’s human-rights body plays into President Trump’s hands Continue lendo... 11/10/2018 11:49:31 The Nobel committee shines a spotlight on rape in conflict An evil that is more lamented than understood Continue lendo... 05/10/2018 21:00:00 Parents worry more about bullying than anything else Around the world, schools and governments are converging on ways of tackling it Continue lendo... 04/10/2018 21:00:00 The 2018 Nobel peace prize is awarded to a surgeon and a former slave Two campaigners fighting against rape as a weapon of war have shone a light on a horrible tactic Continue lendo... 04/10/2018 11:43:30 The school bully has moved online and is following children home Teachers and parents struggle to recognise the problem or to solve it Continue lendo... 28/09/2018 21:00:00 Selling citizenship is big business—and controversial It is easy money for small countries, but it also attracts criminals Continue lendo...
20/01/2020 21:00:00 Conflict resolution relies increasingly on diplomatic back channels It is hard to measure how well they work Continue lendo...
19/01/2020 21:00:00 America’s census looks out of date in the age of big data Cost, complexity and new sources of data mean the days of the population count are numbered Continue lendo...
17/01/2020 21:00:00 Painting lines on roads saves lives Simple things can reduce deaths in traffic accidents Continue lendo...
15/01/2020 21:00:00 Globally, roads are deadlier than HIV or murder The tragedy is that this is so easy to change Continue lendo...
09/01/2020 12:49:56 What a museum of disgusting food reveals about human nature Visitors receive a sick bag in lieu of a ticket Continue lendo...
03/01/2020 21:00:00 Why so few rapists are convicted The justice system is still stacked against women Continue lendo...
27/12/2019 21:00:00 2019 in review: Protest and global warming Climate change becomes a mainstream concern; politics moves on to the streets Continue lendo...
18/12/2019 12:51:11 Teenagers are rewriting the rules of the news That will affect both the industry and society Continue lendo...
12/12/2019 12:53:10 Millions of women are missing out on hormone replacement therapy This much-maligned treatment could save many lives Continue lendo...
04/12/2019 21:00:00 PISA results can lead policymakers astray All the more reason to pay close attention to them Continue lendo...
30/11/2019 21:00:00 NATO’s Watford summit features a troublesome trio Awkward allies, and each in his own way Continue lendo...
28/11/2019 12:43:38 Denmark wants to break up ethnic enclaves. What is wrong with them? Does ethnic segregation harm immigrants? Continue lendo...
21/11/2019 12:55:45 The global drugs trade shifts to west Africa Weak, corrupt states are ideal for cocaine barons Continue lendo...
16/11/2019 21:00:00 World Toilet Day this week is not a joke, but deadly serious The lack of toilets costs lives. Just look at India Continue lendo...
14/11/2019 13:01:05 Economics, demography and social media only partly explain the protests roiling so many countries today Single theories struggle to explain the demonstrations around the world Continue lendo...
13/11/2019 21:00:00 Banned in warfare, tear-gas is the default response to controlling protests Its use may help reduce casualties, but that does not make it safe Continue lendo...
07/11/2019 13:08:32 Countries are increasingly willing to censor speech online That will make life hard for the tech giants Continue lendo...
03/11/2019 21:00:00 Why are so many countries witnessing mass protests? Blame economics, demography, a sense of powerlessness...and social media Continue lendo...
31/10/2019 13:02:15 You really can fool some of the people, all of the time Politicians pay a surprisingly small price for dishonesty Continue lendo...
25/10/2019 21:00:00 Power in the Catholic church is shifting south and exposing divisions The church is pondering whether to ordain women and married men Continue lendo...
17/10/2019 12:02:54 Russia’s Chukotka and America’s Alaska are an era apart Despite being in spitting distance across the Bering Strait Continue lendo...
11/10/2019 21:00:00 Plant-based meat could create a radically different food chain Meat no longer has to be murder Continue lendo...
04/10/2019 21:00:00 Competition between sports for fans’ money and attention is increasingly fierce Basketball can now plausibly claim to be the world’s second-favourite sport Continue lendo...
28/09/2019 21:00:00 Diplomacy in the crossfire of Donald Trump’s impeachment battle The fall-out from the Ukraine debacle goes beyond the peril to the president himself Continue lendo...
26/09/2019 11:39:58 The world is still struggling to implement meaningful climate policy The private sector is trying to come up with its own ideas Continue lendo...
25/09/2019 21:00:00 Oceans are increasingly bearing the brunt of global warming A new report highlights the cost to the seas of rising temperatures Continue lendo...
23/09/2019 21:00:00 Much talk, and a little action, at the UN climate summit Politicians and business leaders announced new steps to fight climate change. But much remains to be done Continue lendo...
18/09/2019 21:00:00 Island states have had an outsized influence on climate policy Climate issue: Small islands are on the front line of climate change. Yet many still face extinction Continue lendo...
13/09/2019 21:00:00 A dire scarcity of drugs is worsening, in part, because they are so cheap Many generic drugs have too few manufacturers Continue lendo...
05/09/2019 11:46:09 How BRAC, the world’s biggest charity, made Bangladesh richer Its extraordinary success leaves it struggling to find a new purpose Continue lendo...
29/08/2019 11:45:35 A global revolution in attitudes towards cannabis is under way The legalisation of the drug for medicinal use is paving the way for a broader liberalisation Continue lendo...
22/08/2019 11:44:01 The poor, who most need insurance, are least likely to have it Mobile phones and innovative firms can help Continue lendo...
16/08/2019 21:00:00 The global gag on free speech is tightening In both democracies and dictatorships, it is getting harder to speak up Continue lendo...
09/08/2019 20:00:00 How to curb the trade in endangered species A triennial summit in Geneva has little progress to celebrate Continue lendo...
31/07/2019 21:00:00 Are Western democracies becoming ungovernable? Politicians sometimes say so, but mean different things in different countries Continue lendo...
26/07/2019 21:00:00 Parliaments get facelifts; but it is politics that really needs one Renovations give parliamentarians an opportunity to shore up democracy. Will they take it? Continue lendo...
17/07/2019 21:00:00 Space law is inadequate for the boom in human activity there The law has big gaps. Who is liable for space debris? And is space mining even legal? Continue lendo...
11/07/2019 11:51:14 Why are happy people voting for angry parties? The rise of populism comes at a time when people say they are feeling fine Continue lendo...
09/07/2019 21:00:00 Children make parents happy, after all Particularly so when they are aged under ten Continue lendo...
05/07/2019 21:00:00 A brief history—and future—of credit scores They can transform an economy. But they are only as robust as the data underlying them Continue lendo...
28/06/2019 21:00:00 The Gulf of Guinea is now the world’s worst piracy hotspot The tricks that baffled buccaneers off Somalia and South-East Asia may not help in west Africa Continue lendo...
21/06/2019 21:00:00 Pet-ownership is booming across the world It seems not to be doing the owners as much good as they think Continue lendo...
14/06/2019 21:00:00 Air-traffic control is a mess Costly old systems cannot cope with congestion in the sky. Vested interests block reform Continue lendo...
07/06/2019 21:00:00 Magic mushrooms, illegal in most places, may have therapeutic uses The active ingredient, psilocybin, offers hope in treating depression Continue lendo...
07/06/2019 21:00:00 Psychedelic tourism is a niche but growing market A “mushroom journey” is for some the trip of a lifetime Continue lendo...
29/05/2019 21:00:00 Malaria is fighting back against efforts to eliminate it In Africa cases are as frequent as ever; in South-East Asia drug-resistant strains are appearing Continue lendo...
29/05/2019 21:00:00 Zambia cuts malaria fatalities, but not the number of cases Its aim of becoming the first malaria-free country in sub-Saharan Africa by 2021 looks very ambitious Continue lendo...
23/05/2019 11:52:01 How climate change can fuel wars Droughts are already making conflict more likely. As the world gets hotter, mayhem could spread Continue lendo...
17/05/2019 21:00:00 The boundaries between politics and stand-up comedy are crumbling Comics are running for office; politicians are trying to be funny Continue lendo...
09/05/2019 11:54:18 What Caster Semenya’s case means for women’s sport A very specific ruling for a very special runner has implications far beyond athletics Continue lendo...
03/05/2019 21:00:00 Global meat-eating is on the rise, bringing surprising benefits As Africans get richer, they will eat more meat and live longer, healthier lives Continue lendo...
27/04/2019 21:00:00 Military spending around the world is booming America and China are committing vast sums to their armed forces Continue lendo...
26/04/2019 21:00:00 How monarchies survive modernity As Japan’s emperor hands over to his son and the Thai king is crowned, monarchies are thriving Continue lendo...
17/04/2019 11:54:00 Sudan and Algeria overthrow despots but not their political systems Both could end up with new rulers much like the old ones Continue lendo...
17/04/2019 11:54:00 How to predict when a despot will fall The economy matters, but so do history and the weather Continue lendo...
12/04/2019 21:00:00 Kidney donors are wanted, dead or alive Since there are not enough of either kind, donation needs to be better organised Continue lendo...
04/04/2019 11:45:40 Why governments move civil servants out of national capitals They want to unclog cities, save money and smooth regional inequality Continue lendo...
28/03/2019 12:42:12 The clamour to return artefacts taken by colonialists Former colonies want their cultural treasures back Continue lendo...
28/03/2019 12:42:11 How Sackler cash made museums a target for protests Woke art-lovers prefer galleries untainted by donors they dislike Continue lendo...
21/03/2019 12:41:10 Why white nationalist terrorism is a global threat The Christchurch killer acted alone but followed a terrifying trend Continue lendo...
20/03/2019 21:00:00 Turkey and New Zealand row over the Christchurch massacre Turkey’s President Erdogan sees political benefits in blaming the killings on global Islamophobia Continue lendo...
15/03/2019 21:00:00 What disasters reveal about mental-health care Counselling by amateurs costs little and can work wonders Continue lendo...
08/03/2019 21:00:00 First-class air travel is in decline Executives are flying business class; plutocrats are taking private jets Continue lendo...
28/02/2019 12:42:15 “Repurposing” off-patent drugs offers big hopes of new treatments But governments need to give companies incentives to invest in them Continue lendo...
22/02/2019 21:00:00 More children around the world are being taught in English, often badly If children or teachers do not understand the language of instruction, they cannot learn or teach properly Continue lendo...
15/02/2019 21:00:00 An ageing world needs more resourceful robots Rather than take people’s jobs, machines will help care for them in their old age Continue lendo...
08/02/2019 21:00:00 Electricity does not change poor lives as much as was thought Getting a power connection to the poorest of the poor may be the wrong priority for a cash-strapped government Continue lendo...
08/02/2019 21:00:00 Night-time satellite imagery can measure electricity provision In India, the night sky follows an electoral timetable Continue lendo...
01/02/2019 21:00:00 Thanks to education, global fertility could fall faster than expected The world’s population in 2100 could be no higher than it is today Continue lendo...
25/01/2019 21:00:00 Few sports are doing enough to protect athletes from brain damage Small rule changes can reduce concussions in rugby and American football Continue lendo...
18/01/2019 21:00:00 How chicken became the rich world’s most popular meat The birds now count for 23bn of the 30bn land animals living on farms Continue lendo...
11/01/2019 21:00:00 Missionaries from the global south try to save the godless West Preachers from poor countries are targeting the rich world Continue lendo...
04/01/2019 21:00:00 Efforts to make buildings greener are not working Rules on “zero energy” buildings do not go far enough Continue lendo...
30/12/2018 21:00:00 The Economist’s ten most popular articles of 2018 The pieces which most caught our readers’ attention Continue lendo...
24/12/2018 21:00:00 The Economist’s editors pick the ten covers that define 2018 News, events and trends to sum up the year, as seen on the cover of The Economist Continue lendo...
21/12/2018 21:00:00 Gradually, nervously, courts are granting rights to animals Chimpanzees and elephants first Continue lendo...
14/12/2018 21:00:00 Why so little is done to help new mums cope Public-health systems focus on babies but often neglect their mothers Continue lendo...
07/12/2018 21:00:00 Can the world stop genocide? As the UN convention against genocide turns 70, its failures are tragically apparent Continue lendo...
30/11/2018 21:00:00 Indigenous peoples across the world no longer seem doomed to extinction The first of three articles explains why Continue lendo...
30/11/2018 21:00:00 Brazilian Indians are learning to live with the state The second in a series of articles on indigenous peoples Continue lendo...
30/11/2018 21:00:00 Why New Zealand’s Maori do better than Australia’s Aboriginals The third in a series of articles on indigenous peoples Continue lendo...
23/11/2018 21:00:00 Suicide is declining almost everywhere Thank urbanisation, greater freedom and some helpful policies Continue lendo...
23/11/2018 21:00:00 Japanese volunteers curb suicide, with kindness and pancakes Gradually, governments are beginning to provide some support Continue lendo...
16/11/2018 21:00:00 In poor countries technology can make big improvements to education Teachers are often unqualified, ignorant or absent; tablets show up and work Continue lendo...
07/11/2018 21:00:00 Clerical sexual-abuse scandals strengthen the pope’s conservative critics Launched in optimism, Francis’s papacy is bogged down in infighting and scandals Continue lendo...
02/11/2018 21:00:00 Jew-hatred keeps mutating to survive Lessons from the Pittsburgh massacre Continue lendo...
26/10/2018 21:00:00 The backlash against overtourism More people are travelling, and many are visiting the same places Continue lendo...
26/10/2018 21:00:00 How to dispose of human waste on Mount Everest Unsavoury problems at 18,000 feet Continue lendo...
19/10/2018 21:00:00 Why farm-worker migration is booming Hostility to migrants is on the rise, but farm hands are still voting with their feet Continue lendo...
19/10/2018 21:00:00 How farmers cope with shortages of workers And why strawberries have become as big as plums Continue lendo...
16/10/2018 21:00:00 The UN Human Rights Council’s lousy election The election of human-rights abusers to the UN’s human-rights body plays into President Trump’s hands Continue lendo...
11/10/2018 11:49:31 The Nobel committee shines a spotlight on rape in conflict An evil that is more lamented than understood Continue lendo...
05/10/2018 21:00:00 Parents worry more about bullying than anything else Around the world, schools and governments are converging on ways of tackling it Continue lendo...
04/10/2018 21:00:00 The 2018 Nobel peace prize is awarded to a surgeon and a former slave Two campaigners fighting against rape as a weapon of war have shone a light on a horrible tactic Continue lendo...
04/10/2018 11:43:30 The school bully has moved online and is following children home Teachers and parents struggle to recognise the problem or to solve it Continue lendo...
28/09/2018 21:00:00 Selling citizenship is big business—and controversial It is easy money for small countries, but it also attracts criminals Continue lendo...