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Sat, September 18, 2021 | 17:14

Pandemic shows why counting global deaths is essential

The past 18 months have shown that accurately counting the dead is vital for protecting the living. At the outset of the pandemic, many countries lacked adequate registration systems, and others saw their processes break down under strain.

2021-08-17 17:00

Give Golden Globes chance to reform

The beleaguered Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), best known for the Golden Globes awards, has been undergoing a much-deserved and long-overdue reckoning. A report in the Los Angeles Times in February revealed transgressions in the way the tiny membership - currently 84 people - of mainly foreign journalists covering the entertainment industry for foreign media outl...

2021-08-16 16:09

Cybercurrencies are most potent tool yet for tax avoidance

Since cryptocurrencies debuted with Bitcoin in 2009, advocates have raved about their portability, their resistance to inflation and financial fraud, and the fact they aren't controlled by a government. Investopedia has the simplest explanation of how they work: “A cryptocurrency is a digital or virtual currency that is secured by cryptography, which makes it nearly impossibl...

2021-08-15 15:13

Apple ditches privacy for porn policing

In this world of snooping and snitching, truly private conversations are increasingly endangered. Apple devices once provided a refuge from all kinds of corporate and governmental prying, and the iconic Silicon Valley company had been studying how to block even itself from its users' private communications by expanding end-to-end encryption - from the device to the cloud and ...

2021-08-12 16:55

Cuomo's resignation and infrastructure bill

A few weeks ago, no one would have believed that the 30 minutes between about 11:40 a.m. and 12:10 p.m. on Tuesday would unfold as they did. Just after noon, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that he will be resigning as New York's governor. Cuomo has been accused of sexual harassment and creating an abusive atmosphere in the governor's office by multiple women.

2021-08-12 16:54

Climate change is a problem that can't be put off

GORDON BAY, Ontario - Two weeks ago, one of America's best-known climate scientists set off onto Ontario's Lake Joseph for an evening of stargazing, as she had almost every summer of her life.

2021-08-11 16:17

Delta has changed the game; it's time to embrace vaccine verification system

In April, as COVID-19 was on the decline in the United States, and our collective optimism about the pandemic's end was palpable, the Biden administration insisted that there would be no federal vaccinations database and no federal mandate requiring a single vaccination credential.

2021-08-10 17:00

Counting breakthrough cases is key

Back in May when coronavirus case counts were swiftly declining and confidence was high that we might finally be near the end of this terrible pandemic, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quit routinely tracking what was then a very small number of breakthrough virus infections in people who were fully vaccinated.

2021-08-09 17:00

Much of the world struggles on vaccination as Americans refuse COVID-19 vaccine

As the United States wrestles with how to curb the spread of the COVID-19 delta variant - and President Joe Biden launches a push to get federal workers vaccinated - it's painful to compare our struggle with that of the rest of the world.

2021-08-09 17:00

Keep bad cops out of town

Very few of the police reforms proposed following the killing of George Floyd are novel approaches to public safety. To the contrary, most are long-standing, common-sense ideas that continue to languish because police unions and other lobbying groups keep saying “no,” despite attempts to accommodate their concerns.

2021-08-08 16:59

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