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A basic income experiment is on the verge of starting in Switzerland
Rebecca Panian The Swiss village of Rheingau is being targeted for a basic income experiment. The idea is being promoted and produced by the Dorf Testet Zukunft organization (Village of the Future Read More...
How migrants saved this Sicilian village from becoming a ghost town
For more than 50 years, the Sicilian town of Sutera has suffered a gradual loss of its inhabitants and the atmosphere of joy that it once possessed. But the village is catching life once more as migrants and refugees move into empty homes in the town. The arrival of African migrants has also helped Read More...
Here are the world's most peaceful countries of the past year
Experts say we are now enjoying the most peaceful period in our history’s time. With that said, terrorism and growing internal conflict over the past eight years have led to a moderate decrease in peacefulness in some parts of the world. Despite this, there a number of leading countries in the Read More...
This French city is now offering free public transport to everyone
Dunkirk, a city in France, is one month into a project that makes it the biggest European city to offer entirely free public transport to residents and visitors alike. Beyond the environmental benefits, a study found that free public transport leads to an increase in mobility among older and Read More...
Malaysia is getting set to abolish capital punishment
The country’s new government declared it will move on to deliver their campaign promise of abolishing the death penalty and terminate more than 1200 pending executions. Capital punishment is assigned to crimes of murder, drug trafficking, treason, kidnapping and acts of terror. Human rights Read More...
Automation will force us to realize that we are not defined by what we do
In March 2016, AlphaGo’s deep learning algorithms ruthlessly dethroned mankind’s best Go player. The whole world jittered, knowing that the same job-eating AI technology was coming soon to an office near Read More...
Housing assistance needs a basic-income approach
While extremely low-income families face enormous difficulties in the housing market due to a 7.2 million shortage of deeply affordable homes, it’s often people hovering above the poverty threshold, but still financially strapped, who have the hardest Read More...
Senate reaches impressive consensus over opioid bill
New legislation is on its way to address a devastating opioid crisis that has plagued the US for over 17 years. Last week the Senate managed to achieve impressive bipartisan agreement and pass the opioid bill. The legislation lifts restrictions on who can prescribe treatment medications to opioid Read More...
Supreme court rejects beach billionaire: public keeps access to surf spot
Too much money often leads to unhealthy behavior. A billionaire bought a beautiful stretch of California beach and then closed the popular spot to surfers. Eight years later the rule of law—and sanity—survives as the California Supreme Court denies taking up an appeal case to consider Read More...
The elder statesman of the planet: Malaysia’s prime minister at 93
He was prime minister of Malaysia for 22 years—from 1981 to 2003—and then he came back a few months ago at age 93: Mahathir Mohamad. His speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations as the world’s oldest leader inspired politicians around the Read More...