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LIBYA: Following the Jan Petersen Committee's report on the Libya war in September 2018 – and after the Storting's lack of reactions – several academics are upset.

LANGUAGE DEBATE: How can the metaphor be tested against factual knowledge?

THE WORKING CLASS: Hegemonic Trump analyzes portray America's working class as white.

ORIENTERING 22. FEBRUARY 1969 Iron Mountain's report is a frightening satire that strikes American social science and the armor industry. The research report is a fictitious document showing what would happen if peace broke, and concludes in a sober scientific language that war is a necessity for our social system. In this way, the book – which has now come in Norwegian as the Fakkel book from Gyldendal – can also be read as a shocking revelation of habit thinking and war preparations. The Danish author Carl Scharnberg chooses to read the book as an authentic and serious document and gives in this chronicle a summary of the "research results".

ECONOMIC DIFFERENCE: In an era when antiracism is being portrayed as identity politics and white poor people are being blamed for Trump, it is helpful to be reminded of Martin Luther King's attempt to bridge the fight against racism and economic inequality.

The next financial crisis will not be like the previous one.

Uber's algorithms rewrite the conditions of work, believes technology ethnographer Alex Rosenblat. But the question is whether the app company is not just taking advantage of the existing conditions.

In his new book, Allan Nasser takes a useful account of the myth of the United States as the country where anyone can realize their dreams.

Today's patent rules are outdated and hinder the innovation and diffusion of technology, argues Zia Quereshi, former head of development economics at the World Bank. Is it time for a patent reform?

Denmark's former Foreign Minister Per Stig Møller has authored a book on the world's challenges. It is dystopian, but Møller also offers suggestions for solutions.

To be or not to be creditworthy – that is the question in the era of investment capitalism.

If you are one of those who think exhortations about environmental destruction are well exaggerated, you should not read on.

Political resistance in Africa is led by middle-class individuals, while the poor are gathering in the streets.

The Hong Kong demonstrations in 2014 may have been as much about a lack of economic opportunities as a lack of democratic rights.

Art can break the cracks in the culture and help reverse the current state of depression. 

The world owes Africa money, and we know why. We even know the solutions. The only thing missing is a politician who wants to collect the victory, writes the Joint Council of Africa.