Commentary
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Girl Power
LONDON – It has been eight weeks since the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram abducted more than 200 girls from…
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An Economist’s Guide to War and Peace
NEW YORK – Stories of conflict fill today’s headlines: whether it is Syria’s civil war, street battles in Ukraine, terrorism…
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Fiscal Discipline and Educational Quality
ANKARA – The world is moving into a post-industrial age in which manufacturing is becoming ever more complex and competition…
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How to Become an Oligarch
WASHINGTON, DC – Let’s say that you would like to become one of the richest people on the planet, someone…
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Europe’s Geography of Values
PARIS – Confronted with Russia’s reassertion of its imperial tradition and the deceptive methods and reflexes of the Soviet past,…
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Why Bill Gates Gets It Wrong
NEW YORK – In his review of Nina Munk’s error-filled and out-of-date book, Bill Gates oddly abandons the rigorous approach…
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Cutting-Edge Conservation
BONN – A small airplane makes its final approach to land. But there is no airport, no landing strip, nor…
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Sequencing a Vampire
NEW HAVEN – Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) – also known as sleeping sickness – has long plagued rural sub-Saharan African…
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Our Cosmic Context
NEW YORK – We have always lived on a changing planet, but many of today’s variations in climatic and ecological…
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Is Citizenship a Right?
MELBOURNE – Should your government be able to take away your citizenship? In the United Kingdom, the government has had…
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