Bjorn Lomborg runs the think-tank the Copenhagen Consensus, where he offers a non-traditional analysis of global challenges from disease and hunger to climate and education. For his work, Lomborg was named one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world. He joined ...
That indispensable part of British life — the pub (public house) — is facing the worst crisis of its centuries-old history and is shutting its doors forever at the rate of at least one a day. Leaders of the pub and brewing industries have sent a joint message to the government asking — ...
The College Board’s announcement to digitalize the SAT made major news headlines across the United States earlier this year. While standardized college entrance exams are undergoing changes and modernization, the assessments that college and university students take while in school are also ...
Politicians deliberately use the word “forgiveness” when discussing what they’re doing to student loans because it sounds magnanimous. The reality is very different. Myth No. 1: Student loan forgiveness doesn’t cost taxpayers anything because the lent money has already been ...
Queen Elizabeth, head of state of the United Kingdom and 14 other countries since 1952, has died. Her birth did not necessarily portend a rise to the throne. Her uncle, King Edward VIII, abdicated the throne to marry an American, and his brother (Elizabeth's father) was crowned King George ...
“The Queen is dead. Long live the King.” Some would add to that traditional and ringing appeal, “God save the monarchy.” It may not need saving, but the British monarchy won’t be the same. Queen Elizabeth II was a one-off, as they say. I clearly remember the death of King George ...
