#Economic

Amrita Bhinder

amritabhinder

Why Are India’s Farmers Protesting?Indian farmers have lately made international headlines. Rihanna, Susan Sarandon & Greta Thunberg have taken up their cause. Ozy, a glitzy Silicon Valley publication posed a

Jonathan Athow

jathers_ONS

We have published GDP, an estimate of total output in the UK economy, for December 2020. This also means we have the overall position for Q4 and 2020 as a

Liz Bell

llizabell

Just listened to @ncecf webinar on the org's recent research on parents' #childcare experiences during the pandemic, and the impact of inadequate child care on the state's families and businesses

louis appleby

ProfLAppleby

Suicide in several countries, inc England, didn’t rise after lockdown - see @bmj_latest this wk. Yet many studies have shown poorer mental health. How do we square these findings? Answer

Nick Dearden

nickdearden75

The #UKAid budget cut is the act of a callous government. But we must re-think aid if we’re to turn the tide. My take on the debate this week (1/7)https://newint.org/features/2020/11/27/dont-just-defend-aid-make-it-just

Sam Koppelman

SammyKoppelman

I hate threads, but this feels important:I want to tell you about how structural racism and segregation are being perpetuated in real time on the Upper West Side, one of

timberwraith

timberwraith

Speaking as someone who was raised by racists to be a racist, this misses the mark.Racism is a cultural phenomenon. When one is surrounded by racists from one's earliest years,

💧😷Queen Victoria

Vic_Rollison

Whether Labor wins #EdenMonaroVotes or not, since we’re going to hear every spin possible on whether @KristyMcBain and @AlboMP ‘overcame their challenge’ the media set for them, here is my

Trita Parsi

tparsi

So diplomacy on how to revive the #IranDeal seems to have hit a roadblock even before it began. Iran & the US are publically dueling about who has to take

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baluciaga

what’s happening in south africa RIGHT NOW? (a thread) trigger warning // r*pe, s*xual ab*se, s*xual vi*lence gender-based violence is violence that is directed towards an individual’s biological sex or

#blacklivesmatter Velvet Thun-der↙️↙️↙️

proud_damascene

I am a bit late to Reagan's Birthday (lmao), but I thought that in the spirit of hoping he's rotting in hell, I would compile a useful thread to be

Heather Timmons

HeathaT

The U.S. Senate banking committee is about to advance Trump's controversial Fed nominee #JudyShelton. Here's why Democrats and some Republicans oppose her 1/...https://reut.rs/32FJ0ac She called for a return to the

Elizabeth Tsurkov

Elizrael

The US admin currently possesses way less leverage than it did in 2013, but one truth remains: the regime and its allies respond to credible threat of force. This can

Westyn Branch-Elliman, M.D., MMSc.

BranchWestyn

Very important piece in the @washingtonpost about the state of the current evidence on #schoolclosures. 1) For elementary school students, the prevalence of #covid in kids is THE SAME for

Sarah Anderson

myrubypearl

Fresh from his stint as director of the CIA and before becoming Vice President and then President of the U.S., from 1977 to 1979 George H.W. Bush presided over the

Hyun Song Shin

HyunSongShin

In the breathless news cycle, some questions of genuine long-term importance can get left behind; spare some time to read our take on the state of money and the payment

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