Putting up barriers to trade is not the answer to domestic economic woes and only increases the risk of conflict between nations, writes Børge Brende.

Børge Brende 18 Feb 2019

International Security

3 charts that show who pays most for the defence of Europe

Military spending by NATO’s European states amounts to the second-biggest defence budget in the world if taken as a whole, a new study from IISS reveals. But does Europe spend enough?

International Institute for Strategic Studies 15 Feb 2019

United States

Everything you need to know about the US government shutdown

The standoff over funding for President Donald Trump’s border wall with Mexico has already triggered the longest government shutdown in US history. Now it could cause another.

Alex Thornton 15 Feb 2019

Environment and Natural Resource Security

These maps show the world’s rivers in stunning detail

Using Geographic Information Systems, Hungarian cartographer Robert Szucs has created these beautiful graphics of the planet's watersheds.

Frank Jacobs · Big Think 07 Feb 2019

International Trade and Investment

How trade wars pose a threat to the global economy

Current trade tensions between the United States and China hang heavy over global prospects for collaboration in 2019. In the long run, it's possible nobody will win.

Pamela Coke-Hamilton 07 Feb 2019

United States

Why middle-skilled workers are being frozen out of big US cities

Cities are no longer the land of opportunity for workers without college degrees as economic forces like clustering of tech companies mean mid-skilled jobs are disappearing.

Bloomberg · Fortune 05 Feb 2019

Neuroscience

Millennial burnout: building resilience is no answer – we need to overhaul how we work

In a popular online article, Millennials were once dubbed 'the burnout generation'. Rather than becoming resilient to burnout, we should instead look to improve the way we work.

Rajvinder Samra · The Conversation 04 Feb 2019

Gender Parity

Parks make city dwellers healthier and happier - but only if they can use them

As New York's Highline shows, people will often only use a park if they see other people like them there too.

Thaisa Way · The Conversation 01 Feb 2019

Climate Change

How frigid polar vortex blasts are connected to global warming

As Chicago plunges to wind-chill temperatures of -60°C many might be wondering where global warming has gone. It's all connected.

Jennifer Francis · The Conversation 31 Jan 2019

Gender Parity

US women's rights activists seek new drive for constitutional amendment

Patricia Arquette and Alyssa Milano have joined calls for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment that would ensure that women are treated the same as men under state and federal law.

Benjamin Long · Thomson Reuters Foundation trust.org 31 Jan 2019

Arts and Culture

How can our cultural institutions keep up with a rapidly changing world? Embrace diversity

Only 9% of visitors to American museums in 2017 were ethnic minorities - and their representation among museum workforces is not much better. Here's how our cultural institutions can star...

David J. Skorton 20 Jan 2019

Arts and Culture

These 5 innovations show how good design can make the world more inclusive

Good design is user-centred and inclusive by definition - and it can open up the world to everyone, as these innovative examples on display at Davos 2019 show.

Caroline Baumann 18 Jan 2019

International Trade and Investment

How a trade war would impact global growth

A full-blown US-China tariff war could reduce global GDP growth to 2.8% in 2019, writes Mario Mesquita, chief economist at Itaú Unibanco.

Mario Mesquita 18 Jan 2019

Geo-economics

A brief history of globalization

Globalization 4.0 is the theme of Davos 2019 - but what were the three earlier waves of global trade?

Peter Vanham 17 Jan 2019

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