Readings on Equality
In the past years, various academic works have changed the discussion about social equality because, with solid empirical evidence, they allow the formulation of five powerful theses, which justify that countries like Colombia adopt a social pact in favor of equality.
Read MoreIn Defense of Western Republicanism
The marches of the past January 11th in Paris were an impressive demonstration of republican unity, something we have not seen since the Second World War.
Read MoreI Am Nigeria
The silence in the face of the massacre of hundreds of people in Nigeria is just as eloquent as the global cacophony in response to the barbarous murder of 17 people in Paris. The contrast is even more revealing given the events’ similarities.
Read MoreTo Prohibit Blasphemy is Useless and Results in Perverse Consequences
The response to the attacks last Wednesday cannot be censorship but rather continuing the struggle for freedom of expression.
Read MoreSatire and Extremism
“Without humor we are all dead.” With that phrase, Chapatte, cartoonists of the New York Times, gave homage to the memory of his Charlie Hebdo colleagues, murdered this past Wednesday in Paris.
Read MoreFreedom of Expression
Charlie Hebdo is a French weekly magazine that specializes in political and cultural satire. Its texts are caustic and tend to target leaders on the right, bankers, and religious prophets.
Read MoreImposture, the Past, and Grey Areas
Imagine for a second that we discover that a general of many stars is not who he says he is.
Read MoreA New Climate for Climate Change
Never before have governments committed to proposing and publishing precise goals regarding emission reductions.
Read MoreEquality and Social Mobility
If you want to fulfill the “American dream” and become very rich thanks only to your talent and effort you have to go to Denmark or Sweden, not the United States. That is the conclusion that emerges from the influential work of the Canadian economist Miles Corak about equality and social mobility.
Read MoreFree Consultants
At the end of the year, when increases in the minimum wage are negotiated, discussions about the meaning of wages and work are reignited. A great part of the opposition to increases to wages are related to, for example, the fact that its value serves more as a unit of value for multiple things (like warrants, taxes, compensation payments) and less as a value for the recompense for labor.
Read MoreLife imprisonment: popular but unconstitutional
ALMOST WITHOUT DEBATE, NOT EVEN IN THE Congress itself, advances the initiative to hold a referendum to impose a life sentence for murder, rape, sexual exploitation, kidnapping or severe ill treatment against a child under 14 years.
Read MoreAbortion: five years after the Court’s ruling
Much remains to ensure women a legal, safe and proper voluntary termination of pregnancy in the situations envisaged by the Court.
Read MoreCrazy for peace
With the approval of the victims law the debate on peace alternatives for the country opens.
Read MoreHealth: corruption, gree,d and solutions
LUCKILY, THE GOVERNMENT, the Attorney General’s Office, and the Comptroller put teeth into the rotten apple of health. However, they have hardly given a tentative bite because the reasons for the failure go beyond the corruption of a few middle-ranking officials caught red-handed, or the ambition of some indiscreet business man such as those of Saludcoop who did a party with health money.
Read MoreThe myths of
What you should be removed are not the quotas approved in the political reform of 2010, but the myths on which the Government’s proposal is based.
Read MoreThe government and gender equality in political parties
Government actions towards greater gender equality in political parties and in the Congress are quite contradictory.
Read MoreTwo dams and a thousand lessons
Few, except the Indigenous and others, dared to note that these projects were anchored in a context of inevitable armed conflict.
Read MoreRodrigo Uprimny participates in the forum “Religious beliefs in public management: a form of corruption?”
On Wednesday May 18, Rodrigo Uprimny participated in the forum “Religious beliefs in public management: a form of corruption?” with an oral presentations that tries to answer the question on how to guarantee the separation between church and state?.
Read MoreGunpowder and buzzards
PRESIDENT OBAMA censored the photos of Osami bin Ladens death saying that it could affect national security.
Read More“Slavery is a foundational trauma”
The debate on reparations for black communities has just started, as well as studies on the enslaved and their descendants in the construction of the nation. Interview with historian Alfonso Múnera.
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