Supreme Court decision 5-4 to repeal a restrictive Louisiana law is far from the final battle of abortion opponents in their fight to annul Roe v. Wade. Sponsored by an anti-abortion Democrat, Louisiana Law 620 was passed in 2014. State Senator Katrina Jackson argued that her requirement that abortion providers …
Read More »The future of air travel.
Summer vacations used to mean wine tasting in Tuscany, backpacking in Southeast Asia, or trips to the Grand Canyon. But fears that planes could be a breeding ground for Covid-19 infections have wreaked havoc with the air transport industry. “This could take several years before we are in our new …
Read More »Why aren’t coronavirus contact tracking apps a ‘game changer’?
Germany’s coronavirus contact tracking app Corona-Warn is shown on an iPhone in Berlin on Tuesday, June 16, 2020. Krisztian Bocsi | Bloomberg via Getty Images Coronavirus contact tracking applications had an important role to play in how some countries dealt with the spread of the disease. But so far, they …
Read More »China and India are fighting but neither can afford a total trade war
New Delhi has indicated that it is ready to put economic pressure on its neighbor. Business organizations in the country reported last week that Chinese shipments were suddenly detained at Indian checkpoints, while state authorities detained hundreds of millions of dollars in Chinese business. And earlier this week, India took …
Read More »Coronavirus accelerates global shift to cheaper and more sustainable renewable energy
Paraphrasing a famous “presenter”, he quickly dropped. Coal suffered a historic drop in use last year. Buyers paid producers up to $ 37 a barrel of crude oil in April. The price of plastics has dropped about half in the past four years. The fossil fuel economy, which functioned happily …
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