Some corporate climate risks are easy to spot. Others are less evident.Paul Souders via Getty ImagesBetter information leads to better decisions – this is the idea behind a regulatory device known as “mandated disclosure.” Mandated disclosures are all around you, from calorie counts on fast food restaurant menus to conversations...
There's plenty of aggression in the bird world, but little armed violence.Velvet Shearer, USFWS/Flickr, CC BYMating season in the animal kingdom can be dramatic, and sometimes violent. As an example, take deer clashing their antlers during the rut – nostrils flaring, hooves hammering the ground, grass flying everywhere, and that eerie...
Some corporate climate risks are easy to spot. Others are less evident.Paul Souders via Getty ImagesBetter information leads to better decisions – this is the idea behind a regulatory device known as “mandated disclosure.” Mandated disclosures are all around you, from calorie counts on fast food restaurant menus to conversations...
At least seven states have banned the teaching of critical race theory. Smith Collection/Gado/Getty ImagesA conservative leader found fault with how “respect for our nation’s heritage” had been mostly stripped from the textbooks of public schools.
“From kindergarten right through the total school system, it almost seems as...
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People gather outside the U.N. headquarters in New York City to protest the war in Ukraine on March 2, 2022.Michael M. Santiago/Getty ImagesWhen Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “special military operation” in Ukraine on Feb. 23, 2022, the U.N. Security Council was conducting an emergency late-night meeting chaired by...
Two men speak in the backyard of a house damaged by a Russian airstrike, according to locals, in Gorenka, Ukraine, March 2, 2022. AP Photo/Vadim GhirdaWar is always a tragedy. It sometimes seems inevitable. But is it ever justified?
Philosophers, theologians, politicians and military leaders have wrestled with this question for millennia. And to a...
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Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, points to the training facility hit by Russian artillery at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. AP Photo/Lisa LeutnerRussian forces have taken control of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant after shelling the Zaporizhzhia facility in the Ukrainian city of...
Putin has kept most oligarchs at a distance – literally and figuratively.Alexey Nikolsky/Sputnik/AFP via Getty ImagesU.S. President Joe Biden and other world leaders are setting their sights on Russia’s oligarchs as they seek new ways to punish Vladimir Putin – and those who have enabled him and profited from his reign –...
Read more: Meet Russia’s oligarchs, a group of men who won't be toppling Putin anytime soon
Russian police have detained thousands of Russians who have taken to the streets to protest the invasion of Ukraine. AP Photo/Dmitri LovetskyThe West has responded to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by imposing harsh economic sanctions.
Most consequentially, key Russian banks have been cut out of the SWIFT payments messaging system, making...
Read more: Economic sanctions may deal fatal blow to Russia's already-weak domestic opposition
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been lauded for his resistance to the Russian invasionPhoto by Laurent Van der Stockt for Le Monde/Getty ImagesWhatever happens in the coming weeks, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will go down as the face of Ukrainian resilience during the Russian invasion of his country.
His response to the Russian invasion of his country...