
Who do you trust in an emergency? We asked people in places hit by extreme weather
The problem wasn’t the volume of emergency information – it was who it came from, and how it was delivered.
Independent Analysis and Reportage

The problem wasn’t the volume of emergency information – it was who it came from, and how it was delivered.

Once again the quiet Canadian has staked out an ethical high ground above his noisy southern neighbour.

One Google response asked for my medical history. Another answered a personal health question without asking who I was. Both replies came across as authoritative advice.

Any additional emissions from a UK gasfield are incompatible with climate targets.

It might be embarrassing, but unintentionally soiling one’s self during competition is not all that uncommon in elite athletes.

Making Canada the EU’s first ‘associate member’ may be a solution in search of a problem.

Learning another language is not a miracle cure for aging, and it cannot guarantee protection against Alzheimer’s disease. But it does have various other benefits.

Keeping children home from school if they have COVID-19 protects family and school community members at high risk of serious illness.

Detroit had 20,370 eviction cases filed in 2025. But evictions that do not go through the formal court process are not included in the city’s official eviction data.

Half of the officers who have been fired or blocked from promotion are women or Black. A scholar who studies the US military explains why that’s dangerous.

A political philosopher explains the ethical arguments in favor of free movement.

A central theme of the High Holidays – and Judaism itself – is that to do right by God, people must first do right by each other.