Cicadas, insecticides and children
The return of periodical cicadas bodes ill for children’s well-beingJun 2nd 2021AS SUMMER APPROACHES, adults of cicada Brood X, last seen in 2004, have begun emerging in the eastern United States. Their return is welcome news for entomologists who study them, and for adventurous chefs in search of novel ingredients. It could, though, have bad…
Testing alibis is not as straightforward as it seems
Justice is sometimes badly served as a consequenceJun 2nd 2021IN 1985 RONALD COTTON, a resident of North Carolina, was falsely convicted of rape and burglary, and sentenced to life imprisonment. Nearly a decade later, he was exonerated on the basis of DNA evidence. Not only did the victim make an error in identifying him as…
Twilight of the tax haven
Jun 1st 2021AS IS OFTEN the case in multilateral matters, America held the key. When Janet Yellen, its treasury secretary, announced earlier this year that it was time to end the “global race to the bottom” on corporate tax, her remarks supercharged sputtering talks over a global deal to overhaul how much tax multinational companies…