Substantially more stringent and complex, they open up new avenues for graft – and instead of easing up on ‘transformation’, ...

So many people carry out good luck rituals without even realizing it. Common examples include crossing your fingers or ...

The totality of these interconnected factors is what we call freedom of choice. An analysis of more than 600 cases of ...

AI was supposed to make our lives better. Instead, it's made many of us scared and angry. Communities are protesting against the building of new data centers — the warehouses of IT equipment powering ...

Recognizing care as a public good and investing in it as such—funded with public dollars to meet demand and available to all who need it—are among the most effective ways to confront the nation’s long ...

Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) are key to overseeing how public funds are spent. By independently scrutinising government financial management, SAIs provide legislatures and the public with ...

In our modern, Western world, many justify the state and its policies because of the presupposition that the state—and the state uniquely—is an indispensable service-provider of essential services ...

Access to justice goes beyond having legal rights and formal institutions in place – it is shaped by practical realities of how justice systems function and how they are experienced. This is ...

Freedom of the Seas. GPS. The Large Hadron Collider. These are all public goods that make our world more prosperous, accurate, and knowledgeable. But we don’t always give them the attention they ...

Petrol prices in Australia have risen sharply over the past six weeks. In early February, prices in major cities were around 160–180 cents per litre. By mid-March, they had increased to approximately ...

Digital wallets are becoming commonplace, often used for digitally storing payment cards instead of physical cards or cash. But beyond payments, as digital public goods with the right safeguards, ...

Davidson College has raised more than $47 million to establish the Martin Institute for Public Good, an ambitious and unprecedented initiative in higher education. The institute aims to develop ...