Coronavirus: compliance with control measures will fall over the winter holidays, expert warns

As the holiday season approaches, we need to consider what effect it will have on people’s compliance with public health rules and the spread of COVID-19....

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History tells us that a contested election won’t destroy American democracy

With the outcome of the 2020 presidential election still hanging on the uncounted votes in a handful of battleground states, President Donald Trump has already prematurely...

Duterte signs EO placing price cap on Covid-19 tests

MANILA – Swab testing will soon be made affordable to more Filipinos after President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday signed an executive order placing a price cap on...

A history of contested presidential elections, from Samuel Tilden to Al Gore

No matter the outcome of the presidential election, it seems likely that Democrats and Republicans will end up in court. President Trump has said he’s going...

What the public hopes and fears about the use of AI in health care

There has been increasing interest in using health “big data” for artificial intelligence (AI) research. As such, it is important to understand which uses of health...

Talk of scrapping NZ’s Human Rights Commission is a danger to democracy

A call to abolish New Zealand’s Human Rights Commission and dismiss it as a “hard left” body forgets the role both sides of politics played in...

Albay, Catanduanes hardest hit by super typhoon: NDRRMC

MANILA – The provinces of Albay and Catanduanes incurred the heaviest damage during the onslaught of Super Typhoon Rolly on Sunday, the chief of the National Disaster...

Huge government debts mean Canada is robbing its kids

Far from saving for a rainy day, governments are seriously indebting our children and future generations due to profligate overspending. Ben Wicks/Unsplash Before the pandemic, the...