ilicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failed with enormous speed – so quickly that they could be textbook cases of classic bank runs, in which too many depositors withdraw their funds from a bank at the same time. The failures at SVB and Signature were two of the three biggest in U.S. banking history, following the collapse of Washington Mutual …
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El Cares hiking trail in Northern Spain. Shutterstock / SergioNF “I’m going to the countryside over the weekend to disconnect.” This is a common refrain among people who, overwhelmed by the big city, seek to spend a few days in nature as a means of escape. We all know it works – a couple of days spent in rural …
Read More »IL State Hearings and Transparency Needed on Nicor Gas Cost Hikes
Consumers are reeling over massive increases in Nicor Gas costs, and they can’t get answers because the system is rigged against them. Nicor Gas is owned by a massive conglomerate called Southern Gas, which has four gas subsidiaries serving 4.2 million customers. Nicor is the largest serving 2.2 million consumers in the northern third of the state, excluding Chicago. Nicor …
Read More »Pakistan’s Sherry Rehman: A Leader for Climate Justice
Recently, we saw Climate Change Minister Sherry Rehman emerge as a strong proponent for climate justice. The UN Climate Change Conference COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, saw her as a vocal advocate standing for Pakistan. Calling other countries to rethink their lifestyles, highlighting the vulnerable position of Pakistan and its inability in tolerating this dystopia, she defended her stance well. …
Read More »Digital Storytelling Can be a Powerful Tool for Water Researchers
Traditional research outputs like journal articles don’t often give voice to communities’ stories.
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As energy prices rise and temperatures drop, the European public is feeling squeezed by the Ukraine war’s secondary effects.
Read More »The Anarchist is Out and a General is In: What Next for Pakistan?
Pakistan cannot complete its political reset, and consequently an economic reset, without upholding the law and the constitution. It will have to start by restraining sections of the GHQ from its assertive political role.
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