| Letter from South Africa: What Melania could have seen Posted: 09 Oct 2018 01:12 PM PDT ![Letter from South Africa: What Melania could have seen]( "Letter from South Africa: What Melania could have seen") As first lady Melania Trump zig-zagged across Africa last week, the trip, at first, seemed largely without fanfare. As Mrs. Trump prepared to board the safari vehicle that would take her on a jaunt through Nairobi National Park last Friday, she donned a white pith helmet – the domed, buckled hat fashionable among European colonists in Africa and Asia. Critics had been looking for days for clues that the first lady didn't really care about Africa, a region that her husband has mostly ignored – and occasionally mocked – during his presidency.
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| After historic Van Dyke verdict, Chicagoans look to the future Posted: 09 Oct 2018 01:02 PM PDT ![After historic Van Dyke verdict, Chicagoans look to the future]( "After historic Van Dyke verdict, Chicagoans look to the future") At the front of a crowd of 200 people in Chicago on Friday, Antonio Magitt was still in shock. For the first time in 50 years, a Chicago police officer had been found guilty of murder for an on-duty shooting. Many businesses and schools had closed early in anticipation of unrest following the verdict in the Jason Van Dyke trial and the streets were eerily quiet that afternoon, despite the marchers.
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| A Nobel for ennobling ingenuity Posted: 09 Oct 2018 11:32 AM PDT ![A Nobel for ennobling ingenuity]( "A Nobel for ennobling ingenuity") In scholarly work done more than three decades ago, economist Paul Romer proposed that societies look beyond the material drivers of long-term growth, such as oil, ports, or labor. Economic progress, he showed by dint of data, relies more on how well a society manages an intangible good: the discovery of new ideas that propel innovation. Dr. Romer, now at New York University, especially focused on ways to reward people who come up with useful ideas in technology or management.
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