A Generous Gift
Trump unleashes $1,000-per-child accounts as billionaire Dell drops $6.25 billion.
Business
The Truth About Those ‘High Minimum Wage’ Countries
Headline wages in Finland and Australia exempt millions of workers, and the loopholes tell us a lot about labor market realities.
What To Do About Venezuela?
The war on drugs wasn’t a real war until President Trump made it one.
Guess Who Is Funding the White Anting of Our Democracy?
This was just another taxpayer-funded junket for Māori Sovereignty activists to slam the ‘racist’ government.
I Told You So
This isn’t all bad news. Just like the internet took away many jobs, it has created far more new jobs and new opportunities.
What Privilege Looks Like in 2025
A similar self-centred blindness to real-world interests and concerns seems to permeate the entire Stuff universe. There’s a word for this: privilege.
The Agendas of Biotech Are Now Being Put on the Table
It is long past time for a public discussion of the limits of what is actually known about DNA and the risks to human life that are being recklessly hazarded.
The KiwiSaver Revolving Door Power Loop
Simon Power’s KiwiSaver advocacy is therefore less about retirement savings than about profit, influence and the audacity of a system where cashflow is guaranteed, risk is socialised and reward is private.
On the Weaponisation of Science
If we can’t test claims, challenge data, or ask uncomfortable questions without fear of retribution, then we no longer have science – we have marketing. The weaponisation of science ends only when truth becomes more valuable than profit.
How This Avalanche Is Threatening Scientific Research
Flawed and fake papers continue to be published. It can take years for journals to retract junk science articles after they have been flagged as suspicious, and by then it’s often too late.
What’s New Zealand’s Strategy for the Gulf?
The six states that make up the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) – Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) – are now collectively New Zealand’s sixth-biggest export market.