Opinion
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Trump’s Foreign Admirers
CAMBRIDGE – Donald Trump doesn’t like Latin Americans and advocates building a wall to separate them from the United States.…
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Vaccines for an Aging Population
SEATTLE – The world’s population is getting bigger – and older. With the elderly increasingly close to outnumbering their younger…
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An OPEC for Migrant Labor?
DUBAI – In September 1960, delegates from Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela met in Baghdad to form the…
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Surviving Human Trafficking in China
MANCHESTER – China’s human-rights abuses against its own people are no secret. But its abuse of North Korean women who…
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Brexit and King Canute
LONDON – The legend of King Canute describes how an early Anglo-Saxon King showed his subjects the limits of royal…
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The Hidden Danger of Big Data
CAMBRIDGE – In game theory, the “price of anarchy” describes how individuals acting in their own self-interest within a larger…
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Demystifying Monetary Finance
LONDON – Eight years after the 2008 crisis governments and central banks – despite a plethora of policies and approaches…
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Greens for Trump?
MELBOURNE – I’m a Green. I’ve twice been the Australian Greens’ candidate for a seat in Australia’s federal parliament. But…
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Closing the Health-Care Data Gap
BOSTON – While much of the world today suffers from information overload, there are still places where information is scarce.…
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The Silent Death of Eurozone Governance
BRUSSELS – Sometimes the most important thing that happens is what doesn’t happen – or, to paraphrase Sherlock Holmes, it’s…
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