Most adults in US, 16 other nations say belief in God, morality not always linked
United StatesRNS Is a belief in God a prerequisite for being a moral person? Most Americans say it is not, and majorities of adults in other countries with advanced economies agree. Pew Research Center released the findings – that also hold true among most of those affiliated with a religion – from its Global Attitudes […]
Essay: Life expectancy improves in some countries after big drops in 2020 – but US and others see further falls
University of Oxford scholars JENNIFER BEAM DOWD, JOSÉ MANUEL ABURTO and RIDHI KASHYAP look – in an article first published on The Conversation – at what the latest data on life expectancy shows…
Ahead of UN climate summit, urgent calls to “fix the future”
London, UKReuters When the Paris Agreement on climate change was finalised after two weeks of fraught negotiations and years of past failures, diplomats hugged and shed tears of joy. They had haggled over verb tenses, cut deals, and in the end, brought 196 countries into the accord. Five years later, governments are lagging far behind […]
US President Donald Trump issues revised travel ban for six majority-Muslim countries
RNS/USA Today US President Donald Trump took a second swing at his temporary travel ban, this time targeting travelers from six majority Muslim countries and crafting his executive order in ways intended to survive challenges in US courts. The new ban, which goes into effect on 16th March, no longer restricts travel from Iraq, one of […]
ESSAY: WHAT MAKES A NATION GREAT?
As the US heads to the inauguration of the man who will be President Donald Trump this Friday, NILS VON KALM reflects on what makes a nation great…