The pandemic – and the emergency responses to it – laid bare fissures in New Zealand society, while permanently shifting the way many live, work and shop.
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Wealth inequality in Australia has grown over the past quarter century. Surging house prices that have outpaced incomes are to blame.
Shakespeare’s theatre made money, and also helped educate audiences about money and power.
Portrait of the writer, seen in London in 2009.
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Shakespeare was a social entrepreneur and entertainer in a world riven by crises, and much can be learned from bringing him into conversation with policy today.
A social scientist tracking adolescents’ beliefs and behaviors over time was uniquely positioned to document changes in teens’ worldviews after Trump’s 2016 election.
Tanzanians mark International Albinism Awareness Day in Dar es Salaam.
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On more than half of 80 economic, social and environmental targets, progress has stagnated or is moving backwards. But modelling shows there’s still time to change course.
For as long as we’ve had democracies, majority rule has left some in the minority worse off. We need to be talking about what’s fair – not just what’s equal.
Although the pie is shrinking, the remaining slices are giving more.
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Richard Shaw, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
The ACT Party leader believes government assets should provide a return or be sold. But a majority of New Zealanders are consistently opposed to more privatisation.
Leaders from around the globe are meeting in Davos.
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Henry James’ ‘The Princess Casamassima’ tells a story of political radicalism in a time of economic inequality. But even James ran up against the limits of putting himself in the mind of a killer.
Only the richest of the rich have the time and resources to be given the opportunity to purchase an exclusive Birkin bag from Hermès.
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Sherbro Island City’s vision of an elite urban development brings to mind some of the colonial thinking around the construction of Freetown’s Hill Station enclave a century ago.