U.S. Overhauls Flood Insurance To Meet Rising Climate Change Risks
Frank Romero hasn’t faced a major flood in years but he nearly lost his home all the same – a victim of substantial insurance premiums for living in a designated risk area. The New Mexico retiree, who still works as a locksmith, racked up a bill of almost $50,000 then junked his policy with the […]
India Leaves Nearly 2 Million People Off Citizens’ List
Nearly 2 million people have been left off a list of citizens released on Saturday in India’s northeastern state of Assam, after a mammoth years-long exercise to check illegal immigration from neighbouring Muslim-majority Bangladesh. Resentment against illegal immigrants has simmered for years in Assam, one of India’s poorest states, with residents blaming outsiders, many said […]
Empathy for the Rest of Us
Empathy might seem like a squishy, vaguely liberal word — a sentimental virtue of minor importance. But the more we learn from neuroscience and psychology, the more it appears that much of human social and economic life, not to mention individual health, fundamentally relies on it. Which makes the rise of inequality — something that threatens empathy — all the more […]
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