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A usually reticent voice is leading the crusade against Narendra Modi’s decision to demonetise Rs500 and Rs1,000 notes. Two weeks after criticising the move in the upper house of India’s parliament, former prime minister Manmohan Singh has once again hit out against demonetisation, calling it a hasty move with hazardous results. Writing in The Hindu […]Read More

Universal basic income (UBI) is either a miracle cure for ailing capitalist economies or a dead end for a doomed, under-employed underclass. Nobody really knows which is true because UBI has never been fully studied. Now, one of the most ambitious efforts so far is about to spend millions to find out. As populist uprisings […]

A black civil rights icon will be the first Canadian woman to be featured on the country’s banknote. Starting in 2018, Viola Desmond’s face will grace the $10 bill, minister of finance Bill Morneau announced on Dec. 8. Desmond became one of the faces of Canada’s civil rights movement in 1946, after her arrest and […]Read More

The success of local minimum wage laws and referenda in recent years have been a rare bright spot for Americans worried about wage stagnation and inequality. In 2016, 12 states and several major cities put hikes in the statutory minimum wage into effect. In November, voters in four more states pushed through increases at the […]

Maiduguri, Nigeria Boko Haram, the Islamic militant group that has terrorized Nigeria’s northeast region since 2009, had killed scores of people and displaced thousands, before they really came into the global consciousness. That was when on the night of April 14, 2014, the insurgent group raided a local high school and kidnapped 276 schoolgirls studying […]

The European Central Bank is both extending and reducing its massive monetary stimulus program. Confused? So are investors, who couldn’t quite tell whether or not they liked what the ECB had to say today. The central bank announced that the euro-zone central bank will print money to buy bonds for nine months beyond its previously […]

Exactly how much does a student’s performance in high school affect his or her later chances of success? According to a new report this week from GradNation, a collaboration between hundreds of educational organizations seeking to boost the US’s high school graduation rate, the answer is: exponentially. Researchers from education consultancy Civic Enterprises and Johns […]

A member of Scotland’s parliament this afternoon gave an extraordinarily clear-eyed and articulate account of her experience being raped as a teenager. She spoke of the immediate aftermath been raped—including self-blame, the desperation for secrecy, and even the awful hope of being pregnant so that what happened would be forced into the open. She also […]

If the love of your life (or your mom or dad or sister 0r brother) is the type of person who travels a lot, buying them the right technology can immeasurably improve the quality of their life on the road. To that end, we’ve polled Quartz staffers and put together some of our favorite gadgets […]

One month ago, on Tuesday, Nov. 8, Americans voted for their next president. Donald Trump won the election—despite the fact that Hillary Clinton got more votes. And that, while not exactly intuitive, makes sense, once you untangle the knotty process that is the Electoral College. What makes less sense is this: Clinton’s lead, in terms […]

Citizens of Georgia and Ukraine have won the right to travel visa-free through 26 European countries in the Schengen zone, thanks to a Dec. 8 agreement between European Union members and delegations from the two countries. Turning the agreement into practice, however, has yet to be implemented, as Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, […]

This story is part of a series called Craigslist Confessional. Writer Helena Bala has been meeting people via Craigslist and documenting their stories for nearly two years. Each story is written as it was told to her. Bala says that by listening to their stories, she hopes to bear witness to her subjects’ lives, providing […]