Tag Archives: Comment

Politicians and activists who tout the importance of work-life balance shouldn’t impose rigidity on them COMMENT | TODD G. BUCHHOLZ | Gig-economy firms and workers – or “giggers” – are like magicians and alchemists, only their tricks are real. Although physicists assure us that new matter cannot be created, the gig …

The Washington Consensus has been wobbly for some time, challenged by abundant research COMMENT | DANI RODRIK, LAURA TYSON & THOMAS FRICKE | Paradigm shifts in mainstream economic thinking usually accompany crises demanding new answers, as occurred after stagflation – low growth and high inflation – gripped advanced economies in the …

Many people have less reason to identify themselves only with what the workplace affords them COMMENT | JAMES LIVINGSTON | Critics of identity politics argue that close attention to matters of race, gender, and sexuality distracts from “real” politics, by which they typically mean the struggle between labour and capital over …

Religious and cultural leaders must lead on the path of strengthening and guiding the family COMMENT | JOSHUA KITAKULE | In today’s rapidly changing world, the traditional African extended family structure stands as a beacon of resilience and strength amidst modern challenges. While divorce rates rise and parenting struggles intensify, the …

Settling the Palestinian Question could consider `de-Zionisation’ of Israel as  propagated by a number of scholars COMMENT | NNANDA KIZITO SSERUWAGI | At the beginning of this year, Uganda hosted the two twin global conferences of the Non-Aligned Movement and the Third South Summit. Chairing both the NAM and G77 + …

Is the NRM now  a mourdant organisation hurtling towards history’s oft unflattering heap of once promising African Political Organisations? COMMENT | ANDREW BESI | Last month, President Museveni arrived in Bukedea district to officially open Bukedea Teaching Hospital constructed, in its entirety, by House Speaker Anita Magogo, more commonly known as …

Many refuse to contemplate today’s bleak prospects, just as liberals in 1933 predicted that Hitler would quickly fail COMMENT | MARK JONES | On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany. To his supporters, it was a day of “national revolution” and rebirth. Germany, they believed, needed the …

The UK, long famed for exporting its values of liberty, is about to cross the Rubicon with the Rwanda Bill COMMENT | GORDON BROWN | Last month, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak made an astonishing admission: the United Kingdom would have all but abandoned the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) …

A new type of South-to-South joint program promotes standards through mutually accredited joint programs COMMENT | XIAOYAN LIANG & COSAM JOSEPH | A common challenge faced by Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions is their inability to adapt curriculum and program standards that align with the evolving needs of …

Consider how the world has divided into rigid camps as the Gaza catastrophe has unfolded COMMENT | MICHAEL IGNATIEFF | Seventy-five years ago this week, United Nations member states meeting in Paris adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It was not a binding law, only a statement of principle. But …