In 2022, I appeared on a Sunday morning news show in Los Angeles amid an increase in local news stories about theft. I pointed out patterns in which news stations devoted more coverage to low-level theft than to other behavior that causes more suffering, including larger forms of theft. The anchor incredulously asked me why...
Five people have downed after huge waves hit parts of Australia at the start of the Easter weekend. Two others are missing off the coasts of New South Wales and Victoria states. On Saturday the body of a man was found in the water at near Tathra in southern New South Wales. It came a...
Pope Francis waved to the crowd at the Vatican, as he made his first public appearance since leaving hospital. The Pope – in a wheelchair with a breathing tube up his nose – briefly appeared on a stage in St Peter’s Square on Sunday. The 88-year-old pontiff had not been seen in public since being...
