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Democracies are dispensing with the ideal that judges are not supposed to be a direct source of political controversy COMMENT | NICHOLAS REED LANGEN | One telling development in the popular demonstrations against the Israeli government’s proposed judicial reforms has been the concentration of protesters on a small side street in …

Social discipline to stop practices that endanger the environment should replace era of inaction about climate change COMMENT | WALTER AKENA | When humans decide to wage war against nature, as we have always done by building on wetlands, cutting down trees, sand mining, and farming in marshlands, the outcome is …

Countries need News Media Bargaining Code that compels Big Tech platforms to pay for news COMMENT | ANYA SCHIFFRIN | Two years ago, the Australian Parliament passed the News Media Bargaining Code, which forced Meta (Facebook) and Alphabet (Google) to compensate media outlets for news content shared on their platforms. The …

COMMENT | CLEVER NICHOLAS | Debt has become an unavoidable part of modern life for many individuals, enterprises and households. Whether it’s student loans, credit card debt, or mortgages, managing debt has become a pressing concern. When managed well, it is a source of success, when mismanaged, the repercussions are …

  COMMENT | PETER MUHUMUZA | Ugandan businesses are increasingly investing in innovations and systems that keep them ahead of the curve to thrive in the current business environment. From embracing the computers and the internet, to e-commerce, cloud computing and now ChatGPT. While access to digital ways of communication …

Experts speak on 2023/24 allocations, taxes, borrowing COVER STORY | ISAAC KHISA | The government’s plan to spend more money next financial year which it hopes mainly to borrow because it cannot raise it otherwise, has led to accusations that “it is playing politics with the budget”. “Our government should not …

Generative artificial-intelligence models like ChatGPT will revolutionize the economy, though no one can say when COMMENT | BARRY EICHENGREEN | The first rule of forecasting, the financial journalist Jane Bryant Quinn once observed, is this: give them a forecast or give them a date; just never give them both. So, here’s …

The EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism is designed to lower greenhouse-gas emissions and encourage cleaner industrial production beyond its borders COMMENT | CARLOS LOPES | As the European Union pursues vigorous efforts to achieve its targets under the Paris climate agreement, the bloc’s proposed carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) offers the …

The Fed’s dramatic interest-rate hikes have had dire implications for debt sustainability in the developing world COMMENT | HIPPOLYTE FOFACK |  The US Federal Reserve’s decision to raise interest rates by 475 basis points over the course of 12 months, in a bid to curb inflation, was bound to be …

While internship is part of one’s training towards being a licensed doctor, in practice, it is how care is delivered in training hospitals across the country COMMENT | Dr Bruce Tumwine Rwabasonga | On Friday, May 12th, government issued a newly proposed policy to address what now appears to be a …