Welcome to the middle class, world
While the media has been obsessing about Judge Kavanaugh and whatever President Trump’s latest rude tweet was, Brookings reports on an epoch-making event we’ve all missed: Something of enormous global …
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Public sector workers’ paradise
How many people are employed in Australia by all three levels of government? If you have answered “too many”, you are correct. If you have answered “almost 2 million”, you’re …
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Who’s got the best life?
Over the weekend I come across an article published by the Foundation for Economic Education two years ago, titled “Most of Europe Is a Lot Poorer than Most of the United …
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Welcome to the greener planet
Good news for the small “g” greens; big “g” Greens, not so much: From a quarter to half of Earth’s vegetated lands has shown significant greening over the last 35 …
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Sinking funds, not sinking islands
Humouring the neighbourhood with taxpayers’ money: Australia will be expected to contribute to a new $US1.5 billion Pacific Resilience Facility to help island nations adapt to the impacts of rising …
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Starving people to save them from starving
Policy-making, including in the area of environment (particularly in the area of environment) requires less emotion and more cost-benefit analysis, writes the “skeptical environmentalist” Bjorn Lomborg: When a “solution” to …
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Will climate change make you top yourself?
Yes, according to a latest study: Global warming doesn’t just hurt the planet’s health — it harms people’s too. An alarming new study from Stanford University brings one major human-afflicting …
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How China aids itself
In the years past, China and Taiwan have engaged in an international bidding war, using foreign aid to buy the recipients’ diplomatic recognition of either regime as the “true China”. …
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Uighurs must wish they were Palestinians instead
“Foreign Policy” points to an interesting instance of large scale persecution and suppression of Muslims, which is generating zero response from the rest of the Islamic ummah. Where is the …
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We’ve got some pretty unpopular leaders
The current crop of Western leaders is failing to inspire the electorates much beyond their base. Is it just a coincidence, or do we live during particularly polarised and unsettled …
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Jerry Brown’s pants on fire
As California battles numerous fires across the state, Gov Jerry Brown has some scorching criticism: “We’re fighting nature with the amount of material we’re putting in the environment, and that …
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Reuters Reuters on the wall, which countries are the worst for women of them all?
This is more than just stupid, it’s actually obscene: A 2018 survey… conducted by the Thomson Reuters Foundation found India to be the most dangerous country in the world for women. Afghanistan and …
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Update to The Daily Chrenk Privacy Policy
Here at The Daily Chrenk we don’t collect any personal information about you. Furthermore, we don’t care about your personal information. We have no idea whether you’re male or female …
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