The GOP-led war on think tanks is officially about foreign money, but it could open the door to exposing secret backers of conservative research outfits, too.
Knowledge translation (KT) practice has evolved over the decades. Research on KT practice hasn’t to the same extent. The literature still predominately focuses on the global North, and the same sectors and actors. But what about thinking and practice from the global South?
Fearful of bad PR, left-leaning groups are rushing to embrace staff unions and boost salary floors while upending some longstanding D.C. assumptions about paying your dues.
The top ten risks and opportunities for 2021
It’s not being called the “year from hell” for nothing. The pandemic, the kind of “grey swan” event that is predicted but never pinpointed in time, finally came calling in 2020, aggravated by deepening political division and tribalism. International institutions continued to fragment, with the United States withdrawing from the World Health Organization right in the middle of the plague and engaging in obstructionist behavior in other multilateral organizations.
Yet there were rays of light even in the abyss. Democracy prevailed in the US presidential election, even as the US political system remains polarized and dysfunctional. In a surge of spectacular innovation, aided by artificial intelligence and big data, scientists created COVID-19 vaccines with stunning alacrity.