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In Saudi Arabia, the project of nation-building was troubled from its first days as the Al-Saud rulers struggled to construct a nation out of the fragments.

In 2023 the Phelan US Centre spoke to the authors of the Brattle Group Report on Reparations for Transatlantic Chattel Slavery, which estimates reparations for harms from enslavement, including to those who were enslaved and to their descendants.

There is a lot at stake for the United States and the world in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.

Although each of us derives enormous benefit from the vast network of cooperative social relations that exists among human beings, there is still no unified scientific theory that explains how we succeed in sustaining these relations.

It’s often said that there shouldn’t be any billionaires. But this is a mistake.

There has been a huge increase in discussion of racial capitalism, linked both to a revisiting of anticapitalist analysis and of the legacies of colonial violence.

Behavioural public policy has gained significant attention recently due to two key factors: political debates over government size and role, and the globally influential approach of nudging.

What are the smallest accidents that have tilted the course of history itself?

can we build an economics based on cooperation?

How can journalists help citizens understand what net-zero entails? What it means for them, given their values and livelihoods?