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After three years of intense focus on ending armed conflict with the FARC, Colombians are now setting their sights on another serious national malaise: corruption.
While it’s a positive sign that the country’s citizens are no longer tolerating this deep-seated problem, argues Fabio Diaz, cynical manoeuvring by would-be presidential candidates threatens to endanger the institutions of their relatively fragile nation.
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Colombians marched in Bogota on April 1 against corruption, the FARC peace process and national politics in general.
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Fabio Andres Diaz, International Institute of Social Studies
It is vital for people to demand transparency, but when popular outrage is manipulated for political purposes, democracy suffers.
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Science + Technology
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Joffrey Becker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Humanoid robots are strange creatures, and not only because they might steal our jobs. We humans actually have good reason to be a little worried about these machines.
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Politics + Society
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Stefaan G. Verhulst, New York University
As climate change increases the frequency and severity of disasters in the near future, leveraging social media data, crowd-sourcing and other means of discovering the unknown will become crucial.
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Benjamin Habib, La Trobe University
Regardless of how the US sending an aircraft carrier group to the Korean Peninsula plays out, the international community will ultimately have to accept and learn to manage a nuclear North Korea.
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Business + Economy
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Volodymyr Bilotkach, Newcastle University
Videos of a United passenger being involuntarily dragged off a plane went viral, creating a PR disaster for the company – one that could have easily been avoided.
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