A run for cover: LA’s fires and insurance
Update: 2025-01-13
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Among the lessons emerging from California’s devastating fires is the idea that insurers cannot price risk on past data: the climate-change future is already here. Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s pick for defence secretary, has some misguided notions about women on the battlefield (10:10 ). And examining children’s literature: should it be all sugar and spice—or more real-world, where not everything’s nice (19:28 )?
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