JONATHAN MANTHORPEJanuary 24, 2014 Not only Thailand’s generals, but also its judges, are manoeuvring to oust beleaguered Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra from government. The Constitutional Court today provided a legal opening to postpone an election set for February 2, which Yingluck called
The word “corporation” has lately been vilified in polarized political discourse — but not so long ago, it was the political “left” that championed corporations, writes Thoughtlines columnist Jim McNiven. “Democratizing prosperity would have been virtually impossible without ‘freeing’ the corporation, he
On the 41st anniversary of the United States’ Roe v. Wade court case, legal battles over abortion in the country still rage. ProPublica compiled some of the more interesting takes on the topic and the broader issue of women’s rights. Go
I first heard Sheldon Fernandez talk about volunteering in Kenya in 2008, when we were both attending a Creative Writing course at the University of Oxford. I especially never forgot his story about his young student in Kangemi. Now, I’m glad that
The Law of Conservation in physics says energy can be neither created nor destroyed, only transformed. But lawless politics have no such constraints — and here the role of energy has ceaselessly expanded, and come to dominate economics and polarize politics. F&O
In the course of writing her book, Dragnet Nation, ProPublica reporter Julia Angwin tried various strategies to protect her privacy. In a series of blog posts, she distills the lessons from her privacy experiments into useful tips for readers. by Julia
Truth is not always stranger than fiction: sometimes they combine, to create a good yarn. Historian and author Brian Brennan writes in F&O about two eccentric ranchers, Maurice and Harrold King, characters of both myths and outlandish facts. An excerpt of Kings
By Brian Brennan April , 2016 This month a historic cattle ranch was added to a major conservation site in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, drawing renewed media attention to the two eccentric brothers who originally owned the ranch. Although they saw the
Found on the web: Beauty, directed by Rino Stefano Tagliafierro, a remarkable interpretation of beauty in art. Beginning with Shakespeare Sonnet no. 9 and ending, as does all life, with death, a work of art that brings sound and animation to masterpieces. The
New work on F&O this week includes a column by Chris Wood about an aspect of climate chaos that is often ignored: the extremes that kill, compared to averages of which climate scientists speak. The average, writes Wood in Natural Security, is
