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You may feel little sympathy for people in the top bracket of earnings, but don’t let that stop you reading. Like it or not, their views and actions matter to everyone
The explosive viral spread of the grainy but dramatic footage shows the limits of mainstream media ethics.
The absence of norms defining the common good and the insufficient place of scientific arguments in the democratic debate weaken the capacity of liberalism to face global threats.
Many countries, including South Africa, use regulations to control smoking in public so that they do not harm non-smokers. Likewise, getting vaccinated is for the common good of society.
There is more support for democracy among African people than is often recognised. Yet this can be undermined by election rigging and is lower in countries like Lesotho, Mozambique and South Africa.
The recent Arctic Council meeting in Finland shows there’s still avid interest in developing the Arctic. Some are arguing the entire region should be considered a ‘global commons.’
Holding patents can be a lucrative and powerful position to be in. Here’s a proposal for how nonprofit patent holders can do more for the common good – and live up to their end of the tax break bargain.
Amazon’s founder turned to Twitter to crowdsource ideas for his charitable giving. This populist approach and his preference for short-term results set Jeff Bezos apart from other mega-donors.
What Pope Francis did in his surprise TED talk was to relate the social message of Catholicism to people’s real lives.
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Associate Professor of Public Policy and Women's Studies, University of Michigan
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Professor in Historical & Contemporary Ecclesiology, Trinity College Dublin
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow; Institute for Democracy, Citizenship and Public Policy in Africa, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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UNESCO Chair in AI Ethics & Governance, IE University
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Professeur Associé, INSEEC Grande École
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Associate researcher, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer, Graduate School of Business and Law, RMIT University
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Senior Research Fellow, Center for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark
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Honorary Research Fellow, UCL Social Research Institute, UCL
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Associate Professor of Leadership, Swinburne University of Technology
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Lecturer in Political Science, Nelson Mandela University
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Biologiste, Immunologiste. Directeur de recherches au FNRS, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
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PhD Candidate and Computational Social Science Researcher, The University of Melbourne
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Enseignant-Chercheur en Economie, INSEEC Grande École